Andrew @ DreamOpera

If you have a vision, the tools become limitless. Early frames from a short film I'm working on. Nothing here came out right the first time. Relentless passes on lighting, color, volumetrics. Big shout out for my heroes in this space who continue to inspire and motivate me to keep pushing the limits: @NEXUS_TO_NOVA @PJaccetturo @rofoverse @Ben__Springer @_OAK200 @_VVSVS @pt5films @jamesyeung18 @ai_artworkgen

GPT Image is incredible. Which makes it even crazier that Midjourney still wins this comparison by a mile.

@ukrroot Flexible for sure.

@AndrewFromDO Fair, "system" was my word, not yours. What I'm poking at: do those 4 steps stay fixed across tasks, or do you reorder/drop them depending on the problem? The ordering is where most of the leverage hides.

How I'm getting cinematic AI worlds like this in Midjourney: Step 1: Build a civilization, not a location Most people prompt: "futuristic tropical city" I prompt: "post-scarcity lagoon civilization built around reef restoration, vertical farming, water transport, bamboo biophilic architecture" The story comes first. The visuals follow. Step 2: Give every object a purpose Don't add random cool stuff. Ask: • How do people travel? • What do they eat? • Where does energy come from? • What does luxury look like? • What replaced cars? • What replaced skyscrapers? When everything has a reason to exist, the image instantly feels cinematic. Step 3: Think like a production designer I layer: Architecture + Infrastructure + Culture + Environment Example: Floating labyrinth council platforms. Cliffside vertical farms. Reef restoration lagoons. Organic bamboo megastructures. Water-based transit. Every frame should reveal part of the world. Step 4: Direct it like a film Add: wide establishing shot, environmental storytelling, cinematic scale, volumetric god rays, atmospheric perspective, production design, practical architecture, lived-in details, epic composition, film still Stop generating images. Start generating movie frames. Midjourney is absurd when you treat it like a worldbuilding engine instead of an image generator. The gap between average prompts and this is mostly storytelling.

@joerussotweets Well said

I’m sorry, but if you’ve written 25 to 30 screenplays and you haven’t attracted the attention of Hollywood, you’re probably not a good writer — and no amount of AI is going to change that.

AI cinematic worldbuilding is entering a new phase. We're no longer generating images. We're generating civilizations. This frame is from a world called: "The Living Reef" A future where humanity stopped asking: "How much can we take?" And started asking: "What does the world need from us?" Would you watch this film? 👇

@laszlogaal_ Wow there’s a big play in video extension and camera consistency there nice work

DŌKYŌ: A Three-Minute-Long Single-Take Short Film Made with AI We can agree that Bytedance Seedance 2.0 totally changed how people create videos. Omni mode enabled faster creation of short films, solo creators making feature-length films, and you can create a 15-second commercial in one shot with a single prompt. But it also opened the door to long, continuous takes, which were not possible. Usually the length of a generated clip is limited to 8–15 seconds. Of course some people tried to cheat around this limitation by doing last frame first frame generation and stitching, but it breaks the camera movement and the pace of the actions. With Seedance, it was very different: instead of fighting the engine I was able to think about what I would like to see, instead of what are the limitations. I planned the framing, the camera movement, the action, and built the three-minute sequence step by step. Of course, this means if you later realize that something is wrong three or four sections earlier, you have to redo everything that follows. Visually, I wanted to maintain a very cinematic, low contrast, grainy, soft look, siilar to an expired 8mm or 16mm film, so there was no upscaling, rather the opposite: softening the image in every possible way. #DreaminaCPP @dreamina_ai

@ukrroot Not sure what you mean by system. The steps I think in are the 4 ones I mentioned.

Love the "build a civilization" rule — the vertical-farm logic is what makes the bamboo joinery feel earned, not decorative. Curious whether you draft the system first or the silhouette? Reproduced the brief on a home Flux 2 rig: 1536x640, about 70s, solar power, zero API spend.

AI film creators: Stop asking: "Does this look realistic?" Start asking: "What happened 10 seconds before this frame?" And: "What happens 10 seconds after?" That's cinematography.

@Gertywood5 Best post in a while. Agree 💯…and let’s not forget the other gap…voice and sound… still ages behind.

Just did a doomscroll on IG. There’s ENDLESS epically visual shit on there. Some with AI, others without. There will always always always be a better visuals guy or girl than you. But if you know how to write 100 good lines of dialogue. There’s like… no one 😂😂😂 literally just a void of good writers.

@heavypulp @grok @imagine Showing how you’re exploring other video engines knowing which ones are better at the moment takes guts and strategic mind - I think your shots and videos are very good and you should keep pushing the models and go beyond all the time.

Had a ton of fun putting this together showing a little behind the scenes look at how I approach my video projects like the Odyssey trailer using @grok @imagine !

@dustinhollywood @stages_ai @NAKIDpictures 10x for listening, I think it’s a great idea for your product that will help a lot of people

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@ryanwpatterson @invideoOfficial Good point they make

Great deep dive on a wave of new creative roles opening up @invideoOfficial

@manushak17 Thank you. What does it remind you of?

@AndrewFromDO Great shot! There's something familiar about this place 😀

AI cinematography is becoming more interesting than AI image generation. The image isn't the achievement anymore. The feeling is. This frame feels like it's from a film about a civilization that chose regeneration over growth. Would you watch it?

@imPatrickT All so good

new york with a 35mm motion picture film emulation.

Tried the product, found it overly complicated, couldn't get one thing built or created. There's a lot of great ideas in there and was sold from your past X posts demo's of the product but you need to do something about the onboarding and simplifying the tool a bit. Its not straightfoward to use. Take this constructively because I really like your vision, just needs better UX and design.

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Your Claude skills, as in your “ai” film crew helpers ie. “ scriptwriter / director / photography director etc? or are those just prompt writing skills for image/video request to keep the cinematics in order? And for the animation part not sure what that means for your workflow - is the hard part the prompting sequences to Seedance to align with the script and story flow?

@AndrewFromDO most platforms have images figured out, anything to automate our claude skills with the animation part is the most immediate need

Wow. Nexus got over 20 million views last week and I got multiple film financing offers! But I made a mistake not taking the time to share HOW four people made this in 2 weeks! So save this step-by-step guide to learn how you can make something similar with Dreamina AI👇🧵

@dustinhollywood @stages_ai A+ for transparency man, keep doing the great work

Learning a lot now that I have @stages_ai and actually pay cloud and inference bills. 😆 You know all those platforms giving away free generations when you sign up? A lot of the time it’s not because they’re being generous. It’s because cloud providers, model companies, or startup programs are covering some or all of the cost through credits and partnerships. Nothing wrong with that. That’s smart business. 🔥 And us startups need that boost help. What I don’t understand is why so many companies act like they’re personally doing you a favor instead of just being transparent. Just say: “Hey, we partnered with XYZ and they’re helping us give our users free access to these models.” Cool. Awesome. Everybody wins. The culture of tech is weird sometimes. Everyone hides the mechanics and only talks about the outcome. Now that I’m on the platform side, a lot of the magic tricks aren’t so magical anymore, and I’m not playing that game, I’m planning on being as transparent as investors and board will allow. 😂❤️

@Julianc_AI @topazlabs I like the outside shots a lot, great atmosphere and grading

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