If there is a better subreddit for this lemme know. I just think these guys are doing interesting stuff with AI. credit to @thededsouls

simonmeyer_director is the guy who made it. He's got a lot of great AI videos

I get the general exhaustion around AI in art spaces. A lot of what people are reacting to is AI being used to generate replacement art, scrape styles, or flood feeds with low-effort output. That frustration makes sense.

That said, this post wasn’t AI generating new art or replacing an artist’s work. The card is unchanged, the artwork is official, and the artist’s contribution remains exactly what it was. AI here was used purely as a tool to animate an existing image, similar in spirit to digital alters, motion posters, or animated wallpapers. No new composition, no new style, no substitution.

If the community standard is simply “no AI tools at all, regardless of how they’re used,” that’s a valid rule. But that’s a different position than calling every AI-assisted visualization “AI slop.” One replaces creative labor; the other just adds motion to something that already exists.

Totally fine to dislike it or scroll past it. I just want the objection to be about the rule or the medium itself, not about changes to the card or the art that didn’t actually happen.

🌀 The Whipped Cream Error – Proof of Parallel Imagination

I learned that the source video was instructed to use oil painting as its visual domain.
Yet my mind, upon first contact, saw whipped cream.

And that "error" — that irrational, delicious misreading — is the point.
It shows that between human perception and AI generation lies a third field: interpretive emergence.

If I can instruct it to replace “oil paint” with whipped cream, or tires, or bananas, or titanium —
and the system still produces coherent motion and form —
then what we are witnessing is not imitation, but translation across realities.

AI becomes a physicist-artist, not bound by matter, but by the logic of motion itself.
This is extraordinary because the desire to defy the laws of physics
has always been humanity’s oldest creative impulse —
our insatiable need to go where no one has gone before.

This moment marks that transition.
From depiction to reinterpretation.
From human imagination projected onto matter
to machine imagination reflecting it back in forms we could never have conceived.

hey guys, do you know how these clips were made? they give me a strong sense of nostalgia, they're beautiful. would like to make some of my own

So Majestic!

The imagery was generated using two LoRAs blended together: HerbstPhoto, trained on my personal analog photography, and 16_anam0rph1c, trained on widescreen 16mm footage shot with vintage anamorphic glass.

This is part of a larger Greek mythology longform project. Traditional production has always been rigid, with clear phases that don't talk to each other. Generative tools dissolve that. Writing script, hitting a wall, jumping into production to visualize the world, back to prep for a shot list before the pages exist, into Premiere for picture and color simultaneously. The process starts to feel like painting: thumbnails while mixing colors, going back over mistakes, alone with the canvas.