valuakin
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valuakin
@KarnovichValua
Digital Art & AI. Storytelling enthusiast. Emmy-nominated. Webby-winning. IADAS member. Founder @davincisdigital. My son is my mentor.

Today is my birthday, and I present you the most important film of my life: Aljoša on the brain train I know this won’t go viral. This is not epic; no explosions or anything. This is just a story. About me and my son, Aljoša. Who and why would wanna watch it? But I still hope it will find its viewers. So it happens, my son and I - we both have ADHD. And I learnt my diagnosis only after Aljoša. It actually made me understand a lot of things about myself and my childhood. Now, when Aljoša started growing, in a random emotional conversation, he said a heartbreaking thing parents are not always ready to hear from a 7-year-old: “Why am I strange? Why am I not like other kids?” This is what made me want to explain that having ADHD is not “being strange”. It is just about being different. Sometimes even “good different”. The film started with a simple question: how could I visually explain neurodiversity to my son, and engage him in a story about his own brain? And that’s when the idea of this AI-driven film came to be. Thanks to a partnership with ARTE France Atelier de Recherche @ARTEfr, I created this hybrid AI documentary which combines live mobile phone footage shot over several years of us living in Slovenia 🇸🇮 and AI animation that magically🪄 turns this film into a knitted stop-motion world. Through a visual metaphor, we travel inside the brain itself: visiting neurons living in the big “brain cities”, exploring how the neurotypical brain differs from a neurodivergent. Having neurodiversity does not make you strange, or excluded, or, god forbid, bad or broken. That is the message. This short documentary is also a message of support to all parents out there who might learn at some point any of the neurodiversity diagnoses. And that it is not the end of the world. With this film, I wanted to virtually hug so many kids and so many parents — in a way that I myself was not hugged enough in my own childhood, when I was often branded crazy, intolerable, unfit, or simply "too much". And without AI and its magic, this film would have literally been impossible. In a way, the misunderstanding around AI today feels a little similar to how people didn’t understand neurodiversity 20 or 30 years ago. We are often afraid of what we do not understand at first. And the goal of this film is to make neurodiversities more visible, more understandable, and a little less frightening. In that sense, using AI as the medium felt fitting from every possible angle. So, hop on this AI Brain Train with Aljoša - and why don’t we have some great time. Welcome to the Brain! (*by Kirill Karnovich-Valua @KarnovichValua) (Created with @freepik @Kling_ai @suno @GoogleAIStudio @GeminiApp)



The "look what AI did" reels skip the part that matters: how it was directed. Vishal Balsara, our Creative Director, built a 7-min Hachiko short in 3 days on Agent One and recorded the full 41-minute tutorial. Context, treatment, shot-by-shot. Film below. Full tutorial in the next tweet👇










⚡️BIG PREMIERE⚡️ What if a legendary retro 1990s game, Heroes of Might & Magic, is turned into an ultra-realistic epic blockbuster movie? ⚔️ HoMM III: The Restoration of Erathia was a game of a generation. I was playing HoMM 3 since I was in high school. So many nights spent in this world. And I still play it 25 years later! 🫣 The iconic gameplay, Dungeons, Dragons, Archangels, Devils, Necromancers, Black Dragons, Red/Green/Golden Dragons, Chain Lightning, Behemoths, Imps, Solmyr, Vampires, Genies, Town Portal, Golems, Elves, Efreets, Ivor, and of course - The Grail 🏆 Making this was kinda my dream all these years, when AI models have been developing. And now IS the time! Thanks to the partnership with @invideoOfficial - the dream came true! This trailer was created entirely with the InVideo platform (animated with @Kling_ai and music was made with @suno). You probably can tell I am a huge HoMM fan, as I have put a lot of heart and passion into this. And loads (LOADS) of generations. What you see in this trailer is barely 10% of what I was able to create. Please tell, if you wanna see more of this 👹 And like, share, comment - if you are also a HoMM fan and actually would love to see a full feature film based on the Heroes universe!

⚡️BIG PREMIERE⚡️ What if a legendary retro 1990s game, Heroes of Might & Magic, is turned into an ultra-realistic epic blockbuster movie? ⚔️ HoMM III: The Restoration of Erathia was a game of a generation. I was playing HoMM 3 since I was in high school. So many nights spent in this world. And I still play it 25 years later! 🫣 The iconic gameplay, Dungeons, Dragons, Archangels, Devils, Necromancers, Black Dragons, Red/Green/Golden Dragons, Chain Lightning, Behemoths, Imps, Solmyr, Vampires, Genies, Town Portal, Golems, Elves, Efreets, Ivor, and of course - The Grail 🏆 Making this was kinda my dream all these years, when AI models have been developing. And now IS the time! Thanks to the partnership with @invideoOfficial - the dream came true! This trailer was created entirely with the InVideo platform (animated with @Kling_ai and music was made with @suno). You probably can tell I am a huge HoMM fan, as I have put a lot of heart and passion into this. And loads (LOADS) of generations. What you see in this trailer is barely 10% of what I was able to create. Please tell, if you wanna see more of this 👹 And like, share, comment - if you are also a HoMM fan and actually would love to see a full feature film based on the Heroes universe!








