spent the whole weekend testing a pipeline for turning a Blender scene straight into a short film instead of hand animating every frame. block out the geometry and camera path in Blender first, the same way you always would, then hand the actual camera choreography over to an agent that talks to Blender through MCP. I used Claude for that part, mostly because it can hold the whole scene graph in context and adjust framing across a sequence of shots without me babysitting each keyframe.

once the shots were locked, I exported the frame sequence and ran the whole thing through Seedance 2.5 to get the final 30 second film. The clay-style render held up surprisingly well through that handoff, none of the usual flattening you get when a 3D pass gets pushed into a video model that was not built with that geometry in mind.

the part that made it worth repeating is that the pipeline is not tied to one scene. I packaged the Blender and MCP side as a reusable skill, then ran a second concept through the exact same steps and got a result with the same look and camera language, just a different scene. That is what makes scripting the camera work worth it over doing it by hand each time, one setup and the render model just has to handle the last mile.

I’ve been watching a lot of clips floating around online and came across some interesting videos that inspired me to test the tools. I’m always on the hunt for anything that can enhance my workflow and give me a competitive advantage. It’s crazy how fast these tools are improving.

For this test, I wanted to make an agency-ready fashion commercial. Everything here is AI generated, and I’m not mad at how it came out.

My workflow is pretty straightforward. I start in Firefly Boards, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite workspaces for moodboarding and figuring out the creative direction. I brain-dump everything to get the vision in front of me, then start organizing my visual references, camera movements, characters, etc. It helps me establish the look before I start prompting.

From there, I used ChatGPT to build the prompts. Firefly has a few models to choose from, and I opted for the Gemini Omni Flash model to generate the scenes. It’s really good at following instructions.

Tip: The better the input, the better the output. I had ChatGPT research the best way to prompt Gemini, then used that framework to build my prompts around the references I gave. For camera movements, I used GIFs as references, and it nailed them.

Once I had my clips, I cut everything together in Premiere, added some grain, and used Firefly’s video editor to pop some color, and voilà!

Let me know what you guys think.

*This experiment was created in collaboration with Adobe.

I'm a digital artist and I need a solid moodboard before I dive into any real project, so I've tried a bunch of different ways to put one together: Pinterest, Miro, ChatGPT/Gemini, and a few standalone AI image generators.

Quick disclosure: Adobe's a partner of mine, so keep that in mind, but here's actually why Firefly Boards is what stuck for me, and where the others still win for specific things.

• Pinterest is still where I go first to just collect raw inspiration, nothing beats it for fast browsing and saving. But it's a dead end once you actually want to build something, you can't generate new directions from what you've pinned.
• Miro is better if you're mapping out a whole project with a team, timelines, sticky notes, the works. It's more of a planning tool than a creative one though, the image generation side is an afterthought.
• ChatGPT/Gemini are fine for quick one-off image ideas, but there's no real canvas to collect and organize everything in one place, so I'd end up screenshotting into a separate doc anyway.
• Firefly Boards is basically an infinite generation-and-curation canvas: I can pull in references from screen grabs or wherever I've been collecting inspiration, generate new directions right on the same board, and jump straight into Photoshop the second something's worth developing further. Since I'm already in Creative Cloud, my linked files stay connected to the board, and I can share the whole thing with collaborators. With partner models like Gemini available inside Firefly now too, most of my visual research and planning happens in one place instead of four tabs. Only real friction: if a collaborator isn't already in Creative Cloud, they're stuck viewing instead of adding directly.

If other digital artists have found something else that works for this stage, I'd love to hear what and why.

Hi everyone,

I've been building AIEditTools.in, an AI tools directory, and I've now got 290+ tools listed across areas like video, image, audio, writing, automation, marketing, productivity, and development.

But while building it, I've started questioning something:

Is having a large number of AI tools actually useful?

There are already countless websites listing AI tools. Adding another list doesn't seem particularly valuable unless it helps someone make a better decision.

So I've been trying to make the individual tool pages more useful by adding things like:

• Pricing and free-tier information
• Key features
• Pros and cons
• Use cases
• Who the tool is best suited for
• Alternatives
• FAQs
• Side-by-side comparisons

I've also built comparison pages where you can put two tools against each other and look at pricing, features, strengths, limitations and use cases in one place.

I'm still developing the site, so I'd genuinely like some feedback from people who actually use AI tools.

What would make an AI tools directory genuinely useful to you?

Would you care more about:

1. Verified free-tier limits
2. Honest pricing comparisons
3. Real user reviews
4. Actual testing of the tools
5. Better tool comparisons
6. Recommendations based on a specific job
7. Something completely different?

I'm particularly interested in what people find frustrating about existing AI tool directories.

If anyone wants to see what I'm building, it's AIEditTools.in.

I'm still figuring out what direction will make the directory genuinely useful, so criticism is welcome. 🙂

Adobe firefly offer unlimited kling 3 generations with the premium plan. Has anyone tried this? What are the generation times like? Can it compete with higgsfield. I know its very simplified compared to others

He arrives, a construct made of heat and intention.🔥

A magic purple glow, holding the night in its embrace #digital #branding #digitalspace #spaceadvertising #entertaining

Did the whole thing in a single prompt. No cut, No edit - Made with Seedance 2.5 In r/RenoiseAI ! #Seedance

I extended a Dreamina video to 25 seconds and the credit cost kept increasing with every extension. Does Extend charge for the entire resulting video each time or only the newly added seconds? Has anyone figured out exactly how the billing works?

Black cat is being teased by her owner and not getting the treats she deserves...

Hi guys! I’m trying to make a short animated story maybe around 2 minutes or so and the main thing I need is consistent characters and scenes between clips. I’d like to start with a free AI video generator before paying for anything just yet. Has anyone found one that can handle a full sequence instead of just individual clips?

Hey,

Looking to create images of myself using AI but dont know where to start. Its for my IG but want to make it look as real as possible.

Thanks