Steel & Fur
What started as some cartoony experiments, but got dragged into the 90s due to generative mistakes. The vibe shifted into this gritty, NY hip-hop tribute with “NY State of mind” from Nas one of the -imo- best albums ever made, illmatic.
The Crew
Meet the crew: Big John (🦍), Dumpster (🐈), Yaya (🐕), The GOAT (🐐), and T-BONE (🐘). Trying to mesh AI generation with traditional video editing is a big pain, especially in terms of organising neatly. The workflow is a mess of different frame rates and glitches. Filenaming is different from each tool that gives you stuff back, upscaling that doesn’t look like the image provided etc. etc. This was just about having fun learning the new tricks. Instead of only hating I felt like I needed to make something with the use of AI before having any opiniom on the matter. Also gave me the oppertunity to dab into davinci. It’s rough around the edges, but I love the energy.
Google Gemini — Veo3.1, Nano Banana Pro
Kling AI — Kling 2.6, Kling Motion Control
Higgsfield — Various
Adobe — Edit & Online
Davinci — Grading
Breadown & Other Imagery
Merging AI with traditional video editing is currently a chaotic frontier. This project served as a stress test for a hybrid workflow, involving:
Frame Rate Wrangling: Syncing various AI-generated outputs into a cohesive timeline.
Asset Management: Overcoming the "naming nightmare" of disparate AI tools.
Color & Finish: Using DaVinci Resolve to unify upscaled assets that didn't always want to play nice.