Chung Nguyen

Very honored to have my latest short film featured in Short of the Week. 👇🏆

@jerrod_lew This is awesome! What if I want the same character for different locations?

Combining ChatGPT Images 2.0 and Seedance 2.0 together. Character sheets are just perfect for using as a reference for your videos. Can really help with consistency. From this character sheet here, I am able to reimagine the same character in different situations. 1. Runner

@Lucas_Shaw At what interest rate would studios be more likely to start borrowing again for slate financing deals? And in the current market, what criteria are banks using to evaluate which film slates are worth financing?

I haven't done a reader mailbag in a while. What questions do people have about the state of the media & entertainment business?

@bstuartTI @c_valenzuelab @PsyopAnime Y did you need to do that all nighters? Was there a deadline?

This is NULL 📽️🍿 A 15-minute short film. 250,000 Runway credits. Created in 4 days. The all-nighters nearly broke me, but this is the thing I’m most proud of making in film or AI. Thanks for hosting AIF & CPP @c_valenzuelab Thanks for amazing anime inspo's @PsyopAnime

@TheCinesthetic I agree the series lost steam, but it also kept the same people employed for ten years, in front and behind the camera.

The Walking Dead became a case study in how serialization can destroy drama. Ten seasons to say what could’ve been said in five.

@astro_jaz 3/5. The beginning and the battle sequence on the moon was sick AF. Great cinematography.

i’m curious if anyone actually liked this movie

@DarthDaddio @TheCinesthetic Way better than the movie.

@TheCinesthetic Andor. I will never recover! On my top 3 shows if all time.

What tv show is 10/10 with less than 40 episodes?

@higgsfield How true is the statement that you did it in 4 days? You wrote, rendered, and edited everything in 4 days?

We just made a 23-MINUTE sci-fi pilot in 4 days. And it is 100% AI.

@ngahpham @SheenaGreitens @nytimes @dhpierson Why Laos?

@SheenaGreitens @nytimes @dhpierson “Vietnam has long followed a tradition in which its top leader chooses Beijing for his first foreign trip” - not true. Party leaders usually visit Laos first.

Glad to share a few thoughts with @nytimes @dhpierson on To Lam's visit to Beijing and what's distinctive about China-Vietnam security cooperation: nytimes.com/2026/04/16/wor…

@techhalla That's a handsome fella. How do you denoise and reduce HDR effect. And what the heck is HDR effect. =)

Grab a frame you like with the character fully suited up. Remove the background. Pro tip: Use this prompt in NB2 to clean up the noise and push the realism: denoise the photo, reduce the HDR effect, make it look like a real photo

Cook or get cooked. Not the average AI Vikings clip. Tutorial to make your own on freepik, below 👇

@newstart_2024 @grok is this true?

“In 1903, the biggest industry in the world was whaling. It disappeared almost overnight.” Jimmy Carr dropped this on the Joe Rogan podcast and it made me rethink how fast entire economies can vanish. Whaling collapsed in about 18 months once petrochemicals replaced whale oil. The same thing happened with horse manure in New York City — the streets were literally covered in it, brownstones had steps to stay above the filth, and laws couldn’t fix it. Then Henry Ford’s cars arrived, and within a few years the horses (and the problem) were basically gone. Carr’s point: the resources and industries we treat as permanent today can disappear shockingly fast when something better comes along. What “essential” industry or resource of today do you think could vanish in the next 20 years?

@kevinvdahlgren The truth is nobody really knows although many claim to be certain. As regular people who don’t have the power to shape the arc of history, we are forced to wait and see.

Is anybody worried that AI is replacing humans? It is inevitable of course what is the point of lead to massive unemployment?

@plantmath1 Jesus what happened to crwd?

$CRWD 450 to 365 in two days unreal capital flight. I was wrong to hold.

@TheRabbitHole Now do another graph…Hollywood production jobs vs interest rates. Why is this important? Because film production is funded with debt.

Hollywood went Woke. Now it’s going broke.

Most #AI video ads lose me in the first few seconds. They either throw flashy visuals at you or look polished but feel generic. I wanted to try something different. I made an AI video ad for My Rental Spot built around a simple idea: by using their app to automate property management, you get your time back for the things you actually love. So instead of leaning on visuals alone, I focused on characters and hobbies. I built this using @freepik , which lets you work across different AI models. I created images first in Nano Banana, then turned those images into video using AI video models. I used @Kling_ai and Veo to animate most of the shots. But I ran into a problem trying to animate a grandma skateboarding. As I animated her doing tricks, the motion would break or the image quality would fall apart as the shot moved away from the first frame. Switching to @grok fixed that. It handled action much better, with stronger physics, and held image quality as the shot evolved. The only limitation was its 720 resolution cap, so I used @topazlabs to upscale the footage. For voiceover and music, I used @ElevenLabs. It’s known for VO, but what really surprised me was how good the music was. It’s hands down the best AI music tool I've used. Part way through making the video, I ran into a different problem. It just felt kind of generic. I realized I was letting the AI make too many of the creative decisions. What this project really reinforced is that the "secret sauce" isn't just knowing the tools; it’s understanding the filmmaking choices you’d make on a real set. If you let the AI choose the cinematography, set design, character, and tone, it will give you "generic" by default. It doesn't have your taste or personality unless you manually bring those elements to the table. I had a great time building this. Take a watch and tell me what you think.

I don’t really think it’s possible, especially with AI proponents always posting headlines like “Hollywood is Cooked” or “Say Goodbye to Editing.” The fact is nobody knows how AI will be used in 5 years, how integrated it will be in the filmmaking process, and most importantly how audiences will react to AI only films. Anti AI people have no real solution to what appears to be AI’s takeover so their immediate reaction is to scorn in. Pro AI people really hope they can finally get a chance to make content audiences will watch (using AI) so they’re trying to convince themselves that’s happening by deriding traditional filmmakers. For myself I am a traditional LA based filmmaker who is learning and using AI where it makes sense. The future is not up to me so I try to learn and enjoy the process.

I wish anti-AI folks like @AlexHarron and @Rahll would get over the hate and anger they have about what’s happening long enough for us to have a calm and rational conversation about where we think the entertainment industry is going amidst an uncertain future with AI. Some Anti-AI folks like these are so hellbent on proving that AI is bad that it’s impossible to have a balanced conversation where both sides can talk honestly about what are the negatives and positives that are coming and how we can all prepare for it and even guide it. Alas…

@MayorKingAI Simple real world use case for meditation channel.

Share your AI Art Have you made something amazing with AI? Images, videos, anything goes! Tomorrow (Sunday), I’ll feature the top creations in a special post Drop your best work below 👇

@CharaspowerAI Looks freaking great! You didn't have to give it further prompts for cinematography to fine tune a look you wanted?

🚨PromptShare🚨 So satisfying to chain a Dolly Zoom followed by a Whip Pan in #klingai using text-to-video. Super cinematic, smooth, and dynamic results. PROMPT A woman with blood on her face stares into the lens, breathing heavily, expression shifting from fear to calm rage, camera pushes in slowly while the background pulls back with a vertigo effect, subtle dolly zoom increases unease, then she softly says “I’ve already won,” a whip-pan reveals the chaos behind her — burning vehicles, screaming enemies, atmosphere saturated with firelight and dread.

@PJaccetturo So sick! Why did you use Kling for this video instead of Veo?

Nintendo took 40 years to give us a Legend of Zelda movie. I made this in 5 days on a $300 budget. It looks like a $300M blockbuster. Let me show you how I made this in 5 simple steps inside of Freepik: 🧵

I made a short film about Mayan chocolate using nothing but AI. Here's my workflow... For the visuals, I leaned on Midjourney for stills because nothing beats its cinematic quality. The tradeoff is its low prompt adherence, so I built a specific claymation-style reference with lighting and texture cues to keep things consistent. From there, I brought those images to life using both Veo and PixVerse. Neither tool is perfect, and sometimes the best workflow is switching between them when one makes creative decisions you didn’t ask for. So far, Veo feels closest to “best in class.” For voiceover, ElevenLabs handled narration. From years in TV, I’ve learned that choosing the right voiceover truly matters — tone, pacing and texture should feel grounded in the world you’re building. ProducerAI generated a score inspired by pan flutes and Andean music. Do I know what traditional Mayan music sounds like? Not exactly. But this choice gave the piece a South American mystique that just felt right. To finish it off, I pulled sound effects from my personal library. SFX are subtle, but they shape emotion. A faint wind, a distant rattle, a soft breath — people may not notice them directly, but their mind does. Tools like these are evolving fast. The process isn’t always predictable, but that’s part of the fun and creativity. #ai #aivideo