Seattle’s Yutao Han, aka Tao Prompts, has just released a 17 minute YouTube tutorial on how to create your first, free, AI-generated short movie.
Let’s assume you already have a script. You can write, right? If not, your favourite LLM can help you ideate and flesh out your thoughts.
“To actually make the AI videos, the method we’ll be using is: Image to Video. What this means is we’ll take a reference image and then use an AI video generator to turn it into a video. After generating thousands and thousands of videos I found that using reference images is how you’re going to get the most consistent results and the highest quality overal.”
The tools he highlights for generating images?
- Midjourney
- ChatGPT
- Leonardo
- Recraft
“When you’re using Recraft the resolution of the generated images is already pretty high at 1820 by 1024. That’s plenty enough for pretty much any AI video generator to get the maximum quality.”
The AI Video Generators he highlights?
- Kling
- Runway
- Google Veo
- Sora
- Luma Labs
- Pika Labs
- Hailuoai
Next processes? Generating voices, lip-syncing the audio, generating music and editing everything together.
My take: he calls this AI Animation and it does follow the traditional animation process much closer than live-action filmmaking.