Dr. Dreams

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@billywoodward @GabrielValles @JoshDaws Eloquently said!

Beautifully said. There’s a tough pill that had to be swallowed when entering the arts as a career. Yet we live in a moment full of rapid change that - by my estimation - has truly enabled the creator. The key is to ignore the naysayer noise and be unapologetic in your art. I firmly believe our purpose is to create. Therefore…create! Create without restraint. Create with reckless abandon. Create with joy. Create with the knowing that the mere blessing of the act is worth it.

Reality check: An extraordinarily small percentage of artists will ever work on a handmade animated film from a major studio. You have a better chance of making it to the NFL. If you do work on one, it’s work-for-hire, which means you don’t own the IP. You get paid, and when the project is over, you’re laid off. If you’re lucky and the film does well, you get to work on the next one. There are only a handful of jobs available on these projects, so opportunities for new artists are rare. Guillermo will get paid for his films until he dies. Most of the crew will get paid once and then hope they can find another job. My son started a stop-motion channel when he was 12. At 21, he gets paid every month from his library of 552 videos. He owns everything and has hard-earned skills. Guillermo isn’t an animator, model builder, storyboard artist, or character designer. Disney couldn’t draw better than his worst artist. And that’s okay. They are master storytellers who use skills they don’t personally possess to realize their visions. Here are your options if you have stories to tell through animation: start making films on your own. I don’t care what medium you use, including AI. Build a fan base that can support your work. If you’re among the tiny fraction of artists who get a chance to work at a major studio, go in knowing that you’ll get paid and own nothing. Don’t act shocked when you’re laid off. Plan on adapting, and use your time at the studio as social capital. I still get a lot of mileage out of having worked on Space Jam. Use AI as a force multiplier. Prove Guillermo wrong. Show that you can tell great stories using skills you don’t personally have, just like Disney and Guillermo. You now have the power of an entire studio on your computer, and everyone is underestimating you. Show them you’re making stories by humans, for humans. You can die with the ideas in your head, or you can use AI to help bring them to life. Whatever you choose to do, ignore the internet mob. They can’t tell stories better than you. They can’t draw. They can’t create characters. They’re not there on principle. It’s a social contagion. They all repeat the same chants and slogans they’ve been programmed to regurgitate. They won’t be there to pay your bills. And if a big-shot director looks down on you, tell him his opinion might matter when he starts sharing the life-time profits from his movies with the crews who supplied the skills he didn’t have.

These judgments are a solid example of cultural essentialism. iow, the belief that there is a fixed essence of "real cinema" or "true art" Every generation internalizes the standards of its artistic community and then experiences those standards as self evidently correct rather than socially learned. Basically: - A group of people/artists develops certain conventions, eg: "good films have three act structures","cinema should be shot on film", "art should be representational", "animation should only be done with certain software" . often as a way of rebelling against the prevailing system - These conventions prove useful in some contexts - Over time, people forget that they were choices made by particular humans in particular historical circumstances Opinions are not facts. Don’t mistake accumulated traditions and conventions for laws of nature

@SydSteyerhart That’s a cool story idea

Somewhere there is a poster who knows everything in advance and predicts the future with 100% accuracy. Like Borges' Library of Babel, he is the one poster from whose posts all of reality could be decoded. He has less than 50 followers and nothing he writes ever gets a like.

@DoughnutsinNov Well said! Funny, innit.

Yep, that's about sums it up. They're afraid of having to compete against your Aunt Sadie. Which is weird, because they keep claiming AI creators are talentless hacks that only make slop, while at the same time they're worried that "slop" can compete on their level.

@alexutopia Couldn't agree more. And here's the cool thing: the gatekeeping has previously been so bad, and so intense, that we're going to see a rebound explosion and flourishing of incredible art and expression that will be unlike we've ever seen or experienced. It's already begun.

@DrDreams I agree. great artists are no worried, but excited about all the possibilities now, and love seeing others succeed as well. you still need vision and something to say, that will never change. but letting everyone have a shot is great in my book.

Saying the quiet part out loud. After an online hate mob bullied Jorge R. Gutierrez out of using AI, voice actor Billy West chimes in and tells us the real reason: The collapse of the barrier to entry is not acceptable. Only established artists are allowed to create.

@Flvmingo @grok Yooo thanks

@DrDreams @Grok idk how i missed this but damn that was SICK bro lmao congrats on this fr

AI videos are popping off today! This is a proof of concept that was financed by Steven Spielberg and Amazon Creator Studios. @Grok please get this video in front of nerds, wizards, cyber hackers, body builders, long haul truckers and marc andreessen. Would also accept naval

@invideoOfficial This is sick! Excited to get started.

Day 4 of making a short film in 5 days on Agent One. Three people. Three projects. Multi-agent setups running in parallel. But the real unlock isn’t the tech. It’s that the skill that makes this work isn’t prompting — it’s directing. And that doesn’t come from a tutorial. It comes from being on set. If you’ve been worried your set experience is about to become obsolete, it’s the opposite. It’s exactly what gives you the edge on a tool like Agent One. Tomorrow, the film drops.

@MukiTanaka @YouArtStudio looking good man! Good colors

Mr. You changed his mind. A small scene from upcoming Episode. made with @YouArtStudio

@UnoParticular @jordandchesney @BLVCKLIGHTai

@jordandchesney @BLVCKLIGHTai He's suddenly showing up in all my generations

Such a shame to see. Sometimes you have to embrace your haters and laugh in their face. Their tactics have no power here.

@306CA5VD @mexopolis

@drdreams @mexopolis do it anyway. don't let technophobes dictate what you do.

I have decided to drop out of the AI program at Amazon. I will not be making a Punky Duck series. Actions speak louder than words. My intent was to showcase artists, both new and seasoned, both inside and outside the studios, driving this new tech. My sincerest apology to those I upset. I promise to do better moving forward. Thank you for your patience with me. I will try harder.

@churchkey @artisin_ai Ohh good idea thanks!

@drdreams @artisin_ai Man, another great one. Hit all the points that we’re all thinking about in isolation. You should post them on Spotify too. It’s free.

Woooo! You can now listen to me get way too enthusiastic speaking to @drdreams about AI, and AI Art right now! Love Dr. Dreams, love his videos, and he’s an awesome dude. I had so much fun! When you get a chance please listen to all his other interviews and follow him. It’s worth your time 😊

@EricKerArt @Gossip_Goblin @Magiermogul Nice! YEAH I think it's possible AI video is more suited to these kind of meditative films than aggressive fight scenes, but we'll soon see!

@drdreams @Gossip_Goblin @Magiermogul Of course! I was thinking a lot about Rohmer while making the movie (he's mentioned in the credits). I think I fell in love with arthouse cinema when I watched A summer's tale at 17. (Now my favorite is My Night at Maud's). You're definitely a man of taste ;)

Honored that my short film 'Léa's Own Music' is among the 20 finalists at the Bucharest AI Film Festival alongside talented filmmakers such as @Gossip_Goblin and @Magiermogul. As a director, it is an immense source of pride to see my work showcased in a country that continues to produce such wonderful cinematic voices. The movie is a tribute to the French New Wave, following a young girl who learns more about herself over the course of a single night. The film was created entirely using @Kling_ai 2.6 and 3.0, along with @magnific (thank you again to both for trusting me as a creative partner).

Cool! My sense is that there will be a bridge-period, or a take-off period, where we kindof collectively consolidate the myriad media and cultural languages, including cinematic language, until we are at cruising altitude and we are able to communicate with visuals in real time, the same way i can strum a guitar for you and play a song; I will be able to "play" a video model and show a story to you.

@drdreams @hassundotX @grok >But I like to lean into the dreamlike qualities of AI 🙂‍↕️🤘🏻 Too much pro-filmic junk out there right now poorly aping cinematic realism. I wrote a whole book about this! Dream on, Dr. Dream - your intuition on this matter will prove to be foundational to the medium.

@billywoodward @artisin_ai

@drdreams @artisin_ai Can’t wait to listen to this!! LFG

New pod up with the legendary G. Kim! @artisin_ai From neuroscience lab to creating surreal AI worlds. She talks about how AI feels like collaborating with a brand new brain + why this is the golden era of creative chaos before models get too “perfect," and a ton more!

@churchkey @artisin_ai

@artisin_ai @drdreams Listening to it now from across the lake 😎🍺 Great interview!

@jordandchesney @invideoOfficial @aionthelot

In case you haven't noticed, @invideoOfficial values AI filmmakers more than anyone in the game right now. I just had a chance to hang with them at @aionthelot, and it was such a please. Big hearts, big smiles, and not a shred of pretension that's part and parcel for most Hollywood types. Just genuine guys that genuinely care about storytellers. @invideoOfficial, here are a bunch on great AI Filmmakers I strongly recommend you engage. I'd say trust me, but all you have to do is take one look at their work and you'll see what I see: @ai_artworkgen @rmuir3 @DavidLaChanceJr @TheBLUDSIMPLE @alexgnewmedia @h_khachatrian @mind_wank @piotrbinkowski @BengtTibert @NathanBoey @deogenai @jdp2oo @JossMonzoni @Julianc_AI @julienvallee @NomadsVagabonds @Ahn_Jae_Hong @BLVCKLIGHTai @piotrbinkowski @olgabrnv @cfryant @henrydaubrez @jdp2oo @drdreams @elena_sav_ @gen_ericai @gabemichael_ai @rourke_heath @Jett_Collective @panaviscope @tupacabra @UnoParticular @eattheethos

@hassundotX @grok This is great!

@drdreams @grok A friend really leaned into that. Check this out: x.com/jcbstwsk/statu…

@EricKerArt @Gossip_Goblin @Magiermogul Love the vibe man. I hope you keep making these. Have you watched any Eric Rohmer films? One of my all time favorite directors.

@drdreams @Gossip_Goblin @Magiermogul Sure ! Actually it's right here. (It might sound a bit "robotic" for an american audience but the goal was to showcase something different from what we're used to seeing with AI.) x.com/i/status/20418…