Magic Lantern

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Magic Lantern

@magiclanternco

Illuminating imagination. Magic Lantern is shaping the next era of cinematic storytelling.

가입일 Kasım 2025

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·3h

@emollick The same trap shows up in creative production. Treat it as a faster pipeline and you get faster mediocrity. The real unlock is for people who approach it as something genuinely different — a collaborator that needs a world to inhabit, not just a task to execute.

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Ethan Mollick@emollick·9h

My piece in the Economist where I argue against de-weirding AI. It is a strange technology with both risks & opportunities that need to be discovered. Pretending AI works like normal IT automation can result in bad outcomes for companies & their employees. economist.com/by-invitation/…

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·1d

@nofilmschool The real question isn't whether AI video won over creators. It's whether it helped any creator tell a story they couldn't have told otherwise. That's the gap between a feature and a medium.

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No Film School@nofilmschool·2d

If “AI video” couldn’t win over creators—or turn a profit—what does that say about the future of AI filmmaking? nofilmschool.com/openai-sora-lo…

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·1d

@heavypulp @ChrisGwinnLA The moderation battle is just a new form of directing. You can't get the exact shot — so you find what the tool will actually render, iterate, redirect. The work that survives friction usually earns it.

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Heavy Pulp@heavypulp·1d

@ChrisGwinnLA battling moderation seems to be an integral part of most current AI storytelling workflows 😂 - came out so great regardless!

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Christopher Gwinn | Grindhouse Glitch@ChrisGwinnLA·1d

The final battle with Korovalda - will Rakkha have his revenge? This one is very sloppy - the censorship of Seedance 2 is completely out of control now - almost all of my generation attempts were blocked (they don't even tell you why!) and I had to settle for a few random clips that I could get past the AI moderation. I couldn't use many of the new images I created for this, nor would it accept the previous video as a reference (one of Seedance 2's magic powers), so it was nearly impossible to maintain good character consistency in this scene, no less with the previous video. My apologies to you all! AI Fantasy clip: Midjourney + Nano Banana + Seedance 2.

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·1d

@morgoth_raven The characters that feel most alive are the ones who develop their own logic. When Lady Ore walks in uninvited and takes over — that's the world telling you it's working. Harder to engineer than it looks.

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Raven Morgoth@morgoth_raven·1d

Have you been waiting? Glitch Tape - Episode 4: RECKONING Is here. Some characters you create. Some characters create themselves. Lady Ore walked into this series uninvited and took over everything. I don't make the rules anymore. She does. She is my favourite character I've ever created. This episode made me laugh, gave me goosebumps, and broke something in me I didn't know was there. Also, Glitch Tape now has its first original song you'll hear a part of it at the end. Was it planned?. No. Nothing in Glitch Tape is planned. That's the point. And whatever you do - Don't mess with Lady Ore. Trust me. Enjoy watching as much as I enjoyed losing my mind creating it. You can watch all episodes at storyveo.ai and YouTube.

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·1d

@Kling_ai Bringing a world to life is the right frame. The hard part is keeping it alive — same character in scene 1 and scene 40, same light logic, same rules. That gap is where generation becomes cinema.

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Kling AI@Kling_ai·1d

Creators bring their worlds to life with Kling AI. Born from imagination, shining with creativity. March Inspirations are now live!

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·2d

@nofilmschool The question isn't whether AI filmmaking works. It's whether the tool was built around what filmmakers actually need — or built to win demos. Those are different products with very different survival curves.

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·2d

@wilfredlee Coverage before chaos. That instinct — establish the world, give the viewer their bearings, then move — is exactly what separates an AI project that feels like cinema from one that feels like a highlight reel. The geography is the story. De Palma never forgot that.

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The Artist's Journey@wilfredlee·2d

A great point by Brian De Palma. This is also a crucial skill for people interested in Gen AI filmmaking. We have the tools now to establish coverage, orientation, to build immersion before creating the action. Yes we know Seedance can do outrageous action sequences. Slow it down a bit and then get crazy.

Doctor Frusna@doctorfrusna

El maestro #BrianDePalma explica la importancia de mostrar la geografía y ubicación de cada personaje antes de que se desate la acción de una secuencia 👍🏻

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·2d

@emollick otheosis. Just a lot of structures that haven't caught up yet.

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Ethan Mollick@emollick·2d

All AI policy is haunted by a failure of imagination. It is either nothing happens or apotheosis, people can’t seem to conceive of any other futures. It is amazing to predict massive AI development and expect nothing major to change in employment or productivity.

Forecasting Research Institute@Research_FRI

Despite expecting significant AI progress, economists' overall (unconditional) forecasts for the economy stay close to today's trends. Median economist forecasts: • Annual GDP growth: 2.5% in 2030 and 2050 (compared to 2.4% in 2025) • Labor force participation rate: 61% in 2030, 58% in 2050 (compared to 62.6% in 2025) But, in a ‘rapid’ AI progress world, economists expect larger shifts (see red lines in figures below).

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·2d

@filipwojda @krea_ai The distinction that matters is whether the interface asks more of the human's creative vision or less. Lowering the technical barrier while raising the creative demand — that's a fundamentally different product than one that just automates away the vision.

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Filip Wojda@filipwojda·3d

i've joined @krea_ai last month! human creative direction has to be at the core of ai creative tools and it's been fun to see how much lowering the technical barrier, paired with interfaces that invite exploration, actually gets creatives there

KREA AI@krea_ai

introducing Node Agent. describe what you want, and watch our agent build and refine creative workflows to make it happen. completely free for Pro, Max, and Business in krea . ai / nodes

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·2d

@Kling_ai The style transfer is extraordinary. The harder problem is scene 12 looking like it belongs in the same impressionist world as scene 1 — same light logic, same character recognizable through the fog. One clip nails the aesthetic. A full story has to hold it.

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Kling AI@Kling_ai·2d

Step into Monet’s world. What’s next? 🎨

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·2d

@arxivexplained Dual-layer memory — long-term context plus per-shot stability — is exactly the right problem. Building a world across 40 shots requires every frame to know what came before. Coherence is the hardest unsolved challenge in AI cinema.

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arXiv explained@arxivexplained·2d

ShotStream: streaming multi-shot video generation for interactive storytelling. Generates one shot at a time with dual-layer memory (long-term context + per-shot stability) and self-error training, hitting ~16 FPS on 1 GPU with sub-second steering.

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·2d

@WriteOnSaga The credit matters — that's how new norms get established. What's experimental today is table stakes by next season. The interesting question isn't whether AI belongs in the credits. It's what stories get told now that it does.

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Saga@WriteOnSaga·4d

Celebrate proudly! 📣 "AI WAS USED IN THE MAKING OF THIS FILM" List all the people behind it, and the growing jobs thanks to Generative AI. No more gatekeeping, just creating with new tools.

LudovicCreator@LudovicCreator

🎬 House of David – Season 2 is now live on Amazon Prime Video. A proud moment. From experimenting with AI workflows to contributing as part of the VFX AI team, this project represents a major step in my journey at the intersection of cinema and artificial intelligence. Huge respect to everyone involved ,it was a privilege to collaborate with such a talented team. Excited to keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·2d

@aimusicvideo The generation is evolving fast. The storytelling is still catching up. Individual moments that dazzle — already there. A world that holds 40 shots deep, same faces, same visual grammar, same emotional logic — that gap is still wide. That's the frontier.

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AI MVS - OCME #1-upload @ musicvideoshow.ai@aimusicvideo·4d

🛑 This is incredible. It’s wild to see how fast generative film has evolved in just a few years. 🚀 We’re watching a new creative era unfold in real time.

Rich Klein@RichKleinAI

It's been fascinating to watch the generative AI video community grow so rapidly over the past few years. During that time, I've bookmarked countless milestones, short films, and created a few of my own. Yesterday, I finally sifted through everything, did some extra research, and published it all on aifilmhistory.org (a visual timeline of the evolution of generative video from my perspective). The project gave me an opportunity to look back at key milestones — model releases, festivals, and most importantly, the creative work from this community that impacted me the most. As I put it all together, it was striking to see the evolution of generative video from its early days (just a few years ago) to the present. This project isn't a comprehensive history of AI in film or an encyclopedia of every AI film ever made. It's more of a personal collection of notable films and milestones (along with some of my own work) throughout the eras. Special thanks to @Diesol, @TheReelRobot, @henrydaubrez, @dustinhollywood, @BLVCKLIGHTai. Your work has inspired so many creators, and I referenced many as examples throughout the timeline to show the evolution of the different models. If you have any feedback or notable examples that I missed, please feel free to share. I used my personal bookmarks for many of the references. Enjoy!

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·2d

@emollick Storytelling too. Cinematic worlds, complex characters, sustained visual narratives — inaccessible unless you had the budget to prove the concept. The vision was never the bottleneck. The cost of realizing it was.

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Ethan Mollick@emollick·3d

I would expect that a lot of things that were old hat to experts, but completely inaccessible to most people, will go viral in the coming months. Sure, anyone could have done those things before, but it required a lot of deep knowledge. Now the AI can make it happen by asking.

cocktail peanut@cocktailpeanut

> "I don't know why this pretext thing is going viral, we've been able to do this for years using canvas" It's not going viral because it's technically astonishingly novel, it's going viral because it's accessible. And the accessibility has nothing to do with the library it self, but the fact that everyone has access to AI. It used to be that "normal people" could only use "apps", and the apps were built by "developers", who in turn used libraries internally but nobody knew about the libraries. They used "apps". Now, any normal person and any agent can use "libraries" directly. So libraries can go viral just like apps can go viral.

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·2d

@Kling_ai Spectacular to visit. The harder problem is building a world that actually lives there — same light logic, same color grammar, coherent across 40 scenes. Style comes fast. World-building takes longer.

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·3d

@emollick Creative development ran on the same dynamic. The concept you couldn't prototype without a studio budget — now anyone can test it in a weekend. The ideas that didn't get a chance because proving them was too expensive are what the next few years are really about.

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·3d

@digi_son @Weavy_ai That distinction matters. Using a tool to explore faster is a fundamentally different creative act than using it to skip the process. The work still starts with your vision — the AI just expands what you can test.

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Digital Mason@digi_son·4d

Experimenting with @Weavy_ai for lighting on the old man ZBrush sculpt.. Using it less as a solution, more as a way to explore possibilities faster. Not replacing the process… just speeding up the exploration. I'll post some workflow images later, but for now...

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·3d

@_adishj @mosaic_so AI film festivals matter because they're doing something the development bottleneck killed for decades — proving a story entirely on the strength of the work. What gets built in those short-form worlds will shape what's possible at feature length.

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Adish Jain ☕️@_adishj·3d

pumped to be bringing @mosaic_so to Rome, Italy for the Rome AI Film Festival this year. the inaugural edition of the Rome AI Film Festival last year set a remarkably high standard for the future of storytelling. it represented an the pinnacle of technology intersecting with profound artistry. i'm excited for Mosaic to partner with RAIF for their second year — where ancient roman artistry meets the future of ai.

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·3d

@aratamadao A world with real thematic gravity — memory, loss, renewal — is so much harder to sustain than a beautiful prompt. The question becomes whether the visual language stays true to those rules in scene 40 the way it does in scene 1. That's where it becomes actual cinema.

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aratama 璞@aratamadao·3d

I’ve entered my short film Ragna Astraea: Twin Shells into AI Film Festival Japan — Short Film Competition 2026. A sci-fi short shaped through generative AI, exploring memory, loss, silence, and the possibility of renewal. What remains after humanity is gone? aratama.io/en/news/aifilm… @AIFJ2025 #AIFilm

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Magic Lantern@magiclanternco·3d

@McCloudArts The tools that actually empower require more from the human, not less — a world only the creator can imagine. The AI can't invent that vision. It can only realize it.

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Ian McCloud Official@McCloudArts·3d

With AI, it’s like filmmaking: Knowing how to hold the camera and act in front of the lens won’t make a blockbuster. It takes a creative mind to bring it to life.

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@emollick @nofilmschool @heavypulp @ChrisGwinnLA @morgoth_raven @Kling_ai @wilfredlee @filipwojda