Lulu Belle gets her own seat....?😁 Used ChatGPT 5.6 Sol + @fal MiniMax H3 and @ElevenLabs for custom audio for @wickedbrowncow and Sweet Lady.

My entry into the @FilmsAicom Halloween contest. Emmett's Halloween Treat filmsai.com/watch/emmett-s-h…

And many artists and entrepreneurs do have the skills and still use AI because it is a multiplier.

May he rest in eternal peace. 90 years old is a nice long life.

You can now download any song you want for 99 cents, check it out and thanks for the support! wickedbrowncow.com/#tracks

Will AI art make traditional art worth more? Short answer? No. I get why some people think so. If a machine can crank out a thousand images an hour, then something made by hand should feel more rare and precious. But, the thing is, traditional art was never valuable just because a human made it. Plenty of hand-painted canvases sit in garages and thrift stores right now, worth next to nothing, made by humans. What gives art its value is pretty much the same things it has always been, scarcity, historical context, who made it, and how many people care about it. The scarcity I refer to isn't "there's less handmade art out there." It's that there's only one of this particular piece, by this particular artist. So, a flood of AI images doesn't make a random thrift-store painting any rarer, or more valuable, than it was yesterday. Okay, will some people pay a little extra for handmade? Probably. We saw that after factories took over manufacturing furniture and pottery, and "handmade" became a selling point. But a little extra for some things isn't the same as traditional art being worth more across the board. To be honestly, we've already watched this formula work across mediums, such as digital. Look at Beeple. There was a time when folks would say digital art couldn't hold real value because anyone can copy a file. Then one of his digital pieces sold at Christie's for about $69 million! Then he paired an NFT with a physical sculpture, HUMAN ONE, and that went for around $29 million! Sure, some of that was part of the NFT hype of the time, and most NFTs crashed afterwards. Yet, Beeple's stuff didn't sell just because they were NFTs. They sold because he spent years building a name, a reputation, and a huge following. So, people were paying for Beeple the artist, for that moment in history, and for proof it was the real thing. The same will happen with AI art. Some of it will be worth a lot, most of it won't, and the difference will come down to who made it, when, and why it matters to others. It was never just the about tool. So no, I don't believe AI will make traditional art worth more by default. Good art will still be valued. Great ideas will still be valued. Great artists will still be valued. The medium doesn't determine the value on its own. As always, the artist and the story play a huge part.

Almost at 500! Woohoo! I appreciate the follows guys, thank you!

Spent a couple of days on a 35 second Alphatron fight to study Anime styled timing with action. I built the previz scene using Claude Opus 5.5 in #Blender first, then gave #Claude + @fal AI my character sheets and the Blender previz, and did the audio clean up in post using @capcutapp. It is important to tell the model to ignore the 3D, using it as camera blocking, character and asset placement and perspective only. Less is more. I also discovered you do not need to install Blender on your machine. Claude can access a "headless" Blender version and render 3D within the chat!

Super Galactic Saturday! Will AI replace Animators? Plus More! xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qKDzWZvr…

Absolutely right. It’s the same old song, but a new verse. I lived through this exact backlash when Photoshop, Illustrator, and digital fonts hit the scene. Same overreactions, same purity tests, same warnings that real art was dead. Some jobs did change. But art didn’t die, and those tools are simply how the work gets done now. Knight’s take sounds reasonable until you ask who decides where “amplifying” ends and “replacing” begins. As @DougTenNapel points out, Laika’s own 3D printers replaced hand sculptors. So why is that line drawn right after the tools he already uses? Intended or not, it keeps the door shut for anyone without a studio budget. Technology is like fire. It can be a frightening master or a powerful servant. But you don’t get to decide which one if you refuse to pick it up.

Wicked Brown Cow has a home, and now he's got a merch table too. If you missed it the first time, WickedBrownCow.com is where you can hear the full Cool Breeze album, read his free origin comic, and get a look behind the shades at the band. Smooth jazz, R&B, and a little blues, sung by a man-cow with a lot of soul and a guitar named Lulu Belle. So here's the news. The merch store is officially up and open for orders. Right now you can grab two tees, with the 'From Pasture to the Stars' comic cover and the Rockstar tee, two caps, one with the classic logo and one in Cool Breeze green, and a Cool Breeze coffee mug. Everything is made to order. And yes, the mug is for black coffee. Do not offer him cream. The physical CD is still in the works, along with an art print of the album cover. I want to get those right, so they'll be ready when they're ready. And honestly? This whole thing started as a fun way to share my music, and it's turned into one of my favorite things to build. If you've been enjoying the music, picking up a shirt or a mug is the best way to show some love and keep the groove going. wickedbrowncow.com/merch

Fascinating!

Agreed. The key to changing culture is to engage in it. Provide the alternatives that compete in the marketplace of ideas AND promote Biblical truth. You'd think that being believers we'd have an advantage, and we do, but only if we care enough to execute.

Pretty cool! It appears that the secret is minimalized storyboard references vs detailed 3D video. I discovered this as well, thanks to tips from other creators. Basically Blender is used for camera blocking to create your shots, with very basic geometry, and ideally, zero geometry. Seedance is able to fill in the blanks with your character and asset references. You end up with smoother motion/animation, along with greater accuracy, as a result. If you include geometry in your previz animation, Seedance locks in on the motion. If you don't, Seedance gives way to smoother animation. In this case, they used minimal geometry as storyboards vs. detailed storyboards, which gave them even better outcomes. Pretty cool!

Cost. Then I discovered Fal.ai, there is no monthly fee, just top up when you have the funds. You top up as low as 10 bucks! Access all the major AI models like Seedance, Flux, Wan, etc. I am not a CPP or affiliate, this is just me telling you what I'm doing.