Sachin Kamath

Create a cinematic cowboy mini-scene with AI in under an hour. Same character. Multiple scenes. Fully animated. Using Neolemon + Kling 3.0. Here’s exactly how 👇

Most people don't know this film. I grew up watching it on repeat. It's the best animated version of India's most sacred story. And it was made by a Japanese man who had no obligation to tell it. Yugo Sako first encountered the Ramayana in 1983 while working on a documentary about Indian archaeology. He read 10 translations of it in Japanese. Then spent nearly a decade making a film about it. 450 artists. 100,000 hand-drawn frames. When asked why animation instead of live action, he said: "Because Ram is God, I felt it was best to depict him in animation, rather than by an actor." He died in 2012 at 84, still working on a Lord Krishna film he never got to finish. The film remains the finest animated rendition of the Ramayana ever made. Not by an Indian studio. Not by a team with a cultural claim to the story. By a man who simply fell in love with it and refused to let it go. I didn't understand why this film meant so much to me until I started building Neolemon. Yugo Sako didn't have the rights to this story. He didn't have the backing of a major studio. He had no obvious reason to be the one to tell it. He had devotion. And he found a way. That's the thing about storytelling that no algorithm, no market research, and no gatekeeping can manufacture. Devotion to a story crosses every border, every language, every credential the industry pretends matters. There are thousands of Yugo Sakos alive right now. People who have fallen in love with a story, a character, a world they want to bring to life. The only thing that ever stopped them was access to the tools. That barrier just broke. The next great Indian animated epic might be made by someone in Brazil. The next defining animated story might come from a single creator with a laptop and a devotion to something bigger than themselves. Yugo Sako proved that the story finds its storyteller. We're building Neolemon to make sure nothing stands in the way when it does.

Pixar figured this out 40 years ago. Start with the character. Not the scene. Not the world. Start with who lives in the story. Punk hoverboard rider. Tattoos. Red leather vest. Now place them somewhere. An underground arena glowing with neon lights. The world builds itself around them. The principle was always there. The tools finally caught up. — made with Neolemon + Kling

1957: This is how Disney cartoons created the zoom effect 2026: one sentence in a prompt box.

@levelsio Honest question. How do you get your invoices to be Portugual Tax Compliant? I am using InvoiceXpress with a Stripe plugin and there are so many bugs/issues. Need generating more than 3000 invoices per month without issues.

Me when my accountant tells me I have to show up at the local startup event to prove my new tax residence

Design your character once. Build the entire world around them. From a design board → cinematic scene. Moodboard. Turnaround. Final character. This tiger-tailed warrior just stepped into his first scene. — made with Neolemon + Kling

For decades, cinematic animation required crews, budgets, and years. Now it requires a story and a weekend. The characters stay consistent scene to scene. The lighting is cinematic. The world feels real. We're one year away from a solo-animated film hitting a major festival. Calling it now.

The tools that used to live inside a $7B studio just moved into your pocket. Same character. 9 different shots. Zero drift between them. Under 30 minutes. One person. Yes, this is 100% AI. Here's what most people are missing about this moment. Character consistency was never just a technical problem. It was the wall. The one that separated serious animation from everything else. The reason solo creators couldn't compete wasn't budget alone. It was this: you could have the story, the vision, the taste, and still produce something that fell apart the moment your character walked into a second scene. That wall kept entire categories of storytellers out of the game for decades. It just came down. And the conversation people are having in response is the wrong one. Animators are asking: what part of my skill survives? Studios are asking: how do we protect our pipeline advantage? Creators are asking: which tool should I learn first? Wrong questions. All of them. The technical barrier was never the point. It was the price of admission. What it was guarding was always something else. Taste. Judgment. Devotion to the craft. The ability to ask the right question. None of that transfers to AI. It was never in the tools to begin with. The people who build the indie studios of tomorrow won't be the ones who mastered the most tools. They'll be the ones who always had a story worth telling, and finally have nothing standing between them and telling it properly. The bottleneck was never talent. It was access. That bottleneck just broke.

Vibe designing will be a thing now. Anyone and everyone will be able to design incredible interfaces.

$5,000 and three weeks...that's what 11 seconds of professional animation used to cost. 1 person just made this in under an hour with Neolemon + Kling 3.0 yes, this is 100% AI. every creative field is hitting the same wall at the same time. design. film. publishing. animation. the anxiety is about which skills survive. wrong question. what's left when the technical barrier goes away is taste, judgment, devotion to the craft, and the ability to ask the right question. those things don't transfer to AI. they were never in the tools to begin with.

Midjourney for source assets. Nano banana for refinement. Grok for scene extension. Each tool doing exactly what it's best at. This is what a real solo creative workflow looks like in 2026. If someone wants to try this with our AI Cartoon Storytelling tool @neolemonapp for easy character and scene consistency, I'm happy to give them free access :) Just DM me.

@Framer_X Every indie filmaker should see this! Each tool doing exactly what it's best at. Awesome stuff!

You can now create full ads with Grok ref images 🎬 What took agencies weeks and big budgets… Now created in hours with AI. Here’s how you can make yours👇

@dorukkavcioglu it's fun and engaging...any pixel is a form of creative expression. Think why did we need any form of art medium in the first place?

seriously, what's the point of generating doodles?

@cfryant The fine details and aesthetics are so damn good...some almost feel like there's a real artist behind the lens shooting each of these scenes.

Midjourney v8 alpha is out now. Here are 20 examples using their new native HD, no SREFS, text only. My thoughts @ the end, plus 3 exclusive prompts for subscribers from these 3 below.

@maxescu I really had high hopes. Anyways, I'm surprised that Seedream is killing it with their recent models...rivaling even Google 😮

Midjourney v8 is out, and I'm shocked how bad it is. More examples and this prompt below:

Lightricks argument: closed APIs are rent. When your core capability lives on someone else's server, one pricing change or model update breaks your entire product. Their counter-move is the Red Hat playbook. Give away the foundation. Build the commercial engine on top of broad adoption. The bet is that the moat has shifted from the interface to the foundation model. And that open infrastructure eventually beats walled gardens, the same way it did in the 90s. Whether that holds in generative video is the real question. But the logic is hard to dismiss.

@ZeevFarbman 'A toll booth on every pixel.' That's the most honest description of what Google and OpenAI are building.