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Generative filmmaking, critically observed. Discover the work, meet the creators, and understand the shifts shaping the medium.

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Week 45's Radar has five stories for AI filmmakers. The full issue is in our newsletter: 1 @minuitia 's One Kiss Too Many 2 Google and Kling cut AI video prices 3 Cocaine Cowboys, rebuilt with AI 4 Runway must face creators in court 5 A self-taught crew hit 4 billion plays
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Grimes voiced and helped design her AI-generated role in Zack London's Gods Don't Give Gifts, out in US theaters Dec 4, and took no fee. Getting her face on screen meant tool makers lifting their blocks on famous faces, a favor most creators can't get.
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Your voice, in the piece: @throckmorton777, @miroluvv and @immacooljoe on what this means. Got something to say about it? Tag us in a reply. If one of these quotes is yours and you want it out, reply and it comes down. Full story: thegenerated.com/stories/gri…
Grimes gave an AI film her face for free. The models had to be told to allow it — The Generated

Grimes gave an AI film her face for free. The models had to be told to allow it — The Generated

Grimes refused payment, helped design her character and recorded her own voice for Zack London's AI feature, out in US theaters on December 4. IndieWire reports the team had to ask model makers to...

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Into the Song, an AI microdrama from a part-time crew under 54-year-old Zhang Hansheng, has run ten 100-episode seasons on Hongguo since August. Its novel, editor, app and, per its director, video model all belong to ByteDance. One owner sets the terms.
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Into the Song, China's top AI drama, is a grassroots hit on an all-ByteDance stack — The Generated

Into the Song, China's top AI drama, is a grassroots hit on an all-ByteDance stack — The Generated

Into the Song has run ten 100-episode seasons on Hongguo since August, made by a remote crew under a 54-year-old who trained online. We checked the trending version: the debt was a team member's, 6.6...

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Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash makes a 15-second clip for $1.04 at 720p, 31% under 1.1 at Google's developer price. Runway's help page still lists about three times that rate, and every edit turn bills as a whole new clip, so price the fixes first.
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Your voice, in the piece: @vipinxtwt, @reelflow_ai and @aipulseda1ly on what this means. Got something to say about it? Tag us in a reply. If one of these quotes is yours and you want it out, reply and it comes down. Full story: thegenerated.com/stories/gem…
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash makes a 15-second AI clip for $1.04, if you buy it from Google — The Generated

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash makes a 15-second AI clip for $1.04, if you buy it from Google — The Generated

Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available with 15-second clips, multi-turn editing and a 31% API price cut to about $0.07 a second at 720p. Runway had it live within the hour, but its...

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Transn says it has localized 20,000+ Chinese microdramas with cloned actor voices. Its own filing shows film translation revenue up 29.8% and margin down 13 points, which it blames on AI cutting prices per order. Cheap dubbing pays the buyer, not the dubber.
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AI made dubbing Chinese microdramas almost free. The dubbing company's own books show who pays —...

AI made dubbing Chinese microdramas almost free. The dubbing company's own books show who pays —...

A cloned-voice dub of a Chinese microdrama now lists at about $1 a minute. Transn, profiled for localizing 20,000+ titles, grew film translation revenue 29.8% while its margin fell 13 points, which...

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Halfway: Selling the tools leads on 35%, Ads and brand work on 28%. Voting closes Tuesday 3pm EST. xitter.gq/the__generated/status/…
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Higgsfield says it hit $1 billion in annualized revenue. A French studio raised €15 million to make AI features for $250,000 each. China's first AI theatrical feature took about $181,000 in four days on a budget of over $1.5 million. Where's the real money in AI film?
35%Selling the tools
14%Making features
26%Ads and brand work
25%Microdramas
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Higgsfield says Claude made a 9 min 51 s dinosaur documentary in one shot, with no outside edit. Its posted prompt runs 448 words: 20 scenes, 15 species sheets, crossfade timings, a frame-by-frame check. The directing did not vanish; it moved into the brief.
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Yalda Kesh's Little White Lies long read says AI microdramas keep recycling the same few faces. China already prices that in: Hongguo told creators to stop reusing AI faces, and studios now pay real people for their likeness. Distinct faces help, but the writing counts too.
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Your voice, in the piece: @keyboardcowgirl, @woosungahn and @jchengwsj on what this means. Got something to say about it? Tag us in a reply. If one of these quotes is yours and you want it out, reply and it comes down. Full story: thegenerated.com/stories/lwl…
A film magazine reviewed AI microdramas, and its sharpest note is about faces — The Generated

A film magazine reviewed AI microdramas, and its sharpest note is about faces — The Generated

Yalda Kesh's long read for Little White Lies argues AI microdramas run on formula and recycle the same handful of faces. We checked what it links to: most claims hold, two vendor numbers slip, and a...

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Squig (@idrawsquig) lays a father and daughter under the night sky and turns every light up there into a question. A believable family, great voice design and accurate night lighting carry it. Only the thermos, sipped lying flat, breaks the spell.
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New Homie by ALEXYZ (@alexvx_nft) is today's Video of the Day. An alien lands in the 2000s New York projects, gets dapped up and flies off in a purple UFO with boomboxes on it. Those 29 seconds of attitude pack in magic effects, a moving camera and crowd scenes.
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ChatGPT Images 2.6 now saves a character or prop and keeps it on hand from one chat to the next. New GIF loops are one picture cut into frames, so storyboards, not video. Two developer models kept listed prices, but rough drafts cost about 4x in two tests.
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Your voice, in the piece: @freyafoxtv, @vibequirklabs and @crystalwizard on what this means. Got something to say about it? Tag us in a reply. If one of these quotes is yours and you want it out, reply and it comes down. Full story: thegenerated.com/stories/cha…
ChatGPT Images 2.6 can animate a storyboard frame. Just don't call it video — The Generated

ChatGPT Images 2.6 can animate a storyboard frame. Just don't call it video — The Generated

ChatGPT can now turn a frame into a short GIF loop and reuse saved reference images by name, which makes it a cheap motion test before video. The loops are sprite sheets, the documented 64 frames...

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