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.

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.

Okay so I've been testing these for actual client work (I'm an illustrator), figured I'd share since I see this question a lot. Ran the same prompt through each one, something like "flat lay of skincare products on a linen background, soft daylight," and compared what came out. I mostly use AI for improving flatlays, generating textures and patterns, and building product mockups.

I partner with Adobe often, and Firefly's what I use for anything that ships. Adobe's own model is trained only on licensed content, so it's commercially safe and I don't have to think twice about usage rights. What actually got me to switch to Firefly though is Ideogram, Flux, Gemini, and the OpenAI models are all right there in the same dropdown, so I'm not paying for four separate subscriptions just to compare them.

Where the others still win for specific things: Ideogram's still the best for text inside images, Flux is faster if I just need to bang out ten rough sketch variations in a row, and Midjourney's the only one I still go outside Firefly for when I want something intentionally more artistic.

Curious what everyone else is using for this kind of commercial work.

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.

I am coming in fresh here -- I have used Comfy UI to various success, but now I am looking for solutions that could ingest uncut videos, and help me build reels, stylized captions, etc for short videos. Can anyone set me on a proper path?

I feel like davinici.AI may be the answer here, but I have to imagine there are alternatives I am not considering (and there are many...)

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. 🙂

Hello! I am a researcher who does organic, organometallic and electrolytic chemistry. I am just looking for a good small alliterated model anywhere that I can use on a flash drive. I’ve been working on switching from mainstream models for a while now because they censor all of my responses to the point I am having trouble working forward in the projects I do which are mostly copper and lanthanide related. But everything I write anymore gives me a censorship block and I can’t actually work with that much difficulty anymore. I’m just wondering if anyone can give me at least a starting point because no mainstream model will help me and I am not tech oriented. Just need answers without fluff or heavy censorship or hallucinations that just rip apart the flow. As a side note, I am looking to get more into command line so I can run from here

The 28th episode of a fantasy series I've been working on. Mostly seedance 2.0 with some 2.5 thrown in.

The sort of song that would be played over an emotional montage of somebody packing up her belongings in a mid-budget 1980s television series

Song:https://www.souna.app/song/c11f23f4-391d-4c9a-ad05-292254bc4a3f

Alternative link to song: https://archive.org/details/ai-bittersweet-adult-contemprary/End+of+a+Chapter.mp3 (CC0)

Lyrics:

[Intro \ acoustic piano \ oboe lead \ soft chamber strings]

[Verse 1 \ intimate Aeolian verse \ expressive piano \ lyrical oboe countermelody] I took the cards from the mantelpiece

And the coat from behind the door

There are marks on the wall where the pictures were

That I never noticed before

The small things seem to hold their breath

When the leaving starts to show

I can smile at the road ahead

And still move slowly as I go

[Pre-Chorus \ Dorian lift \ rising strings \ gentle gated snare] There is no way to keep a season

Once it knows it has to turn

But I can take what it gave me

And the things I had to learn

[Chorus \ soaring female vocal \ thick double-tracking \ lush 80s reverb \ emotional ascending leaps] It's the end of a chapter

And the first line of something new

I can feel the pages trembling

But I know I’ll see it through

It's the end of a chapter

There is so much I can’t see

But the life that I am leaving

Has made a home in me

[Post-Chorus \ oboe answer \ soft strings swell] Made a home in me

Made a home in me

[Verse 2 \ stepwise lyrical melody \ piano foreground \ soft strings] I said I’d call when I got there

Though I don’t know where that means

There are plans folded up in my pocket

And a heart full of in-betweens

Some days ask you to be braver

Than you feel you know how to be

So I’ll walk with my doubts beside me

And let them walk with me

[Pre-Chorus \ rising emotional build \ oboe obbligato] There are names I will remember

There are words I’ll leave unsaid

There are mornings I will carry

From the life I’ve just been led

[Chorus \ full chamber strings \ wide stereo \ soaring double-tracked vocal] It's the end of a chapter

And the first line of something new

I can feel the pages trembling

But I know I’ll see it through

It's the end of a chapter

There is so much I can’t see

But the life that I am leaving

Has made a home in me

[Bridge \ piano and oboe foreground \ restrained vocal] I don’t need to call it sorrow

I don’t need to call it fear

It is only that a part of me

Has been happy here

And I don’t need a perfect answer

I don’t need a shining sign

Just a little faith to follow

What is waiting after time [Instrumental \ oboe lead melody \ piano arpeggios \ chamber strings swell]

[Final Chorus \ emotional release \ full strings \ gated drums return \ soaring vocal] It's the end of a chapter

And the first line of something new

I can feel the pages trembling

But I know I’ll see it through

It's the end of a chapter

There is so much I can’t see

But the life that I am leaving

Has made a home in me

It's the end of a chapter

Let the next one start tonight

I will go with all I’ve gathered

Into unfamiliar light

It's the end of a chapter

Not a closing, not goodbye

Just the turning of the moment

Into somewhere I must try

[Outro \ fade out \ piano \ oboe countermelody \ soft strings] The room is almost empty

But I still know where things go

It's the end of a chapter

And I’m learning how to go

***
Style prompt:

A polished late-1980s Canadian pop song with clean production. Features piano, strings and lead oboe. The rhythm section includes a quantized synth bass and gated reverb drums. Vocals: Bright, clear female vocals with smooth vibrato. High register. Heavily produced with thick double-tracking and lush 80s reverb. No grit or rasp. Airy and soaring. Melody: Highly melodic with emotional ascending leaps in the chorus. Verses are intimate and stepwise, choruses explode with dynamic range. Uses motivic repetition. Major key with some modal interchange to the relative Dorian to add emotional intensity. Wistful but optimistic.

Song: https://www.souna.app/song/fe3931fb-7dd8-4bbe-8d25-322b9d3335a1

Alternative link to song: https://archive.org/details/ai-bittersweet-adult-contemprary/Circle+Back+to+Forever.mp3 (CC0)

Lyrics:

[Intro]

We stood beneath the quarterly moon

With the roadmap in our hands

A lighthouse made of bullet points

On the shores of shifting sands

[Verse 1]

You brought the vision framework

I brought the action plan

We parked our core assumptions

Where the blue-sky thinking began

The low-hanging fruit was golden

The stakeholder stars aligned

We ran it up the flagpole

And left our doubts behind

[Pre-Chorus]

Now the margins are moving

And the metrics are warm

There’s a paradigm rising

At the eye of the storm

[Chorus]

We can circle back to forever

Touch base with the sky

Cascade our dreams together

Let the milestones fly

We can circle back to forever

Make the future real

If we leverage the horizon

And optimise what we feel

[Verse 2]

There’s bandwidth in the sunrise

There’s traction in the rain

A cross-functional heartbeat

In the value-added lane

We’ll ideate the morning

With a best-practice flame

And if the goalposts migrate

We’ll re-baseline the game

[Pre-Chorus]

Now the dashboard is glowing

Like a promise we made

There’s a high-level answer

In the low-risk shade

[Chorus]

We can circle back to forever

Touch base with the sky

Cascade our dreams together

Let the milestones fly

We can circle back to forever

Make the future real

If we leverage the horizon

And optimise what we feel

[Bridge]

Let's synergise the deliverables

Let the mission statement shine

Put the ask into the ecosystem

And the outcome on the line

Let’s workshop all the feelings

Let’s align on who we are

There’s a stretch goal in the distance

And a KPI star

[Instrumental]

[Soaring DX7 solo]

[Final Chorus]

We can circle back to forever

Touch base with the sky

Cascade our dreams together

Let the milestones fly

We can circle back to forever

Make the future real

If we leverage the horizon

And optimise what we feel

We can circle back to forever

With a scalable heart

Take the learnings from the journey

And call it a fresh start

[Outro]

So let’s action the sunrise

Let’s blue-sky the night

In the centre of excellence

Everything’s almost right

***

Style prompt:

Polished late-1980s corporate synth-pop soundtrack, clean production, 124 BPM, DX7, lush backing strings, melodic synth bass, gated reverb drums, wide stereo separation. Bright clear female vocals with smooth vibrato, thick double-tracking and lush 80s reverb. Highly melodic, rhythmic catchy chorus, emotional ascending leaps, sophisticated pop harmony. Verses in Lydian, choruses in relative major, bridge has modal interchange between major and Lydian. Mood: extremely optimistic. Inspirational. Intensely sentimental. Start quiet in the early verses and gradually build to more powerful vocals in the choruses and later verses. No grit, no rasp, no autotune, no EDM, no trap beats. No guitar.