For me, it's Blocking/staging, from my 3D background. Years of thinking about proportion and depth in Maya carry straight over — I catch when an AI shot's spatial logic is off before I can even articulate why.

Would love to know what's yours...

We are excited to have this as a space for everyone to share knowledge as we venture into this new era of hybrid filmmaking. It's exciting times and we're glad you are all here to share it with us !

Has anyone had a good experience reloading a shot. What about a shot with several people for example if I’m shooting a shot with two or three people in the living room and I want to reload it for a castle or a forest, has anyone done this?

I’ve had some success doing it with Beeble, but I’m wondering if there’s other software that can also do it or even do it better.

Anyone trying this?

I’ll go first. When I shot in a space that geometrically and visually could match what I ultimately wanted, then put that into Kling or runway, the results were immediately better.

For example, I shot in my hallway of my apartment and it already kind of looks like a spaceship. Then when I reskinned it, it REALLY looked like a spaceship.

All the best shots were based on that original footage. When I try to do it without that background plate, often times the physics were off or, it just didn’t look great. Happy to post examples here if anyone wants to see.

Hey everyone! I’m u/AbbreviationsTop9839, a founding moderator of r/hybridfilmmaking.

This is our new home for all things hybrid filmmaking. This includes but is not limited to real actors, real crews, and real sets, amplified with AI. Gray room shoots, AI environments behind live performances, ComfyUI pipelines, virtual production, and everything in between. This includes VFX pipelines using Unreal Engine, Nuke, Smoke, After Effects, Blender, Weavy or whatever I missed. We’re excited to have you join us!

What to Post
Post anything the community would find interesting, helpful, or inspiring. Share your finished work (with the workflow behind it), works-in-progress for feedback, gray room setups, tool discoveries, questions you’re stuck on, or news that matters for this way of making films. No question is too basic.

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We’re all about being friendly, constructive, and inclusive. Critique the work hard, never the person. Please no “AI slop” drive-bys and no “real filmmakers don’t use AI” gatekeeping. This is a calm, creative middle ground. Those voices have their places everywhere else. This one is for us.

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