Halloween forum coming 17th Oct

I'm afraid she is actually dead.

Find out how it happens on the halloween forum.

Bogus 👎

Good pics :)

They are great costumes. Must of cost a fortune LOL

They would have, other than for your earlier suggestion 🙂

Yes, they are.

5 Hours before Willows death

Oh,,,, It's that bushy guy again.😬
I thought you weren't gonna show this until the 17th when the Halloween forum is up.

Oh wow 😮 that’s amazing. You could make this into a full-length movie and it’s a very high professional standard, good enough for cinema. I’m very impressed.

Let’s hope that Willow can somehow be delivered, even from death.

Heehee. I'm going to either transfer it over there, or make a new post if i can't transport the actual post on its own.
I'm working on the next part now. Next part is really sad at what happens to Willow :( 😪🤧

Very scary Mr Story, Lady-J👍

Halloween Forum up tomorrow!

Woo hoo 🎉🥳🎃🔥💥
I guess I better get busy 😆

Mr Story's Movie is very highly professional, but comes at what cost and again AI
Going back in time a little the odd thunderbirds string puppets were for me, great times, and AI is pulling us away from those days, it's a sham those day's are lost.
We did some movies with the small dolls, using strings, boxes and cardboard cutouts, some years ago, the movies never seen here only in the real cinema, they really do still over power anything we do and show here today.
Are we in danger of making the movies to professional, and the doll stars no longer look like dolls that they really are, don't think we would like to go that far with Kemble movies and that's why we stay clear of AI, but that's the way we see it.
But congrats on a great clip

AI is just a tool, just like the puppets in Thunderbirds. The quality of the movies depends on the user, as well as the tool. There are about 12 different videos in the movie above, they are all edited together as best I can. The forest background sounds were done by another tool. The music was done by Suno, which does ai music. I have subscriptions to these.

All in all the cost was about £30 to make that one short movie with Seadance 2 and 2.5. I can do another one this month then the cost would rise significantly as usage would be outside my permitted usage for the month. Next month I could make a further one or two of the longer movies.

I might make a third movie this month as it's Halloween and I want to show what happens to Willow. I'm hoping lots of you are rooting for Ickle to bring her back somehow? If anyone can, he can. Right?

Really nice work.

Well I wish her back safe😀
The cost of making those clips is way way to high, it's a rip off, that's AI for you, they are all out to take your money and rip you off big time, your movie is 1 minute 20 I think.We make movies up to 3 hours, even the short music clips are 2 to 3 minutes long.
So think you can see why we do what we do, as we can make a 3 hour movie for free, no cost just time, and as we go on we can up date, do more, and in a lot faster time.
We make about 6 to 10 movies and shows at one time, so you can see a new show of 4 to 10 minute long about every two days, at the speed we can now work at, we don't need credits as it's are own all is done in house, and I don't thank the shows and movies we do now are all that bad, and will get better and better.
But will say this, it's been a lot of work to get to where we are now, Lady-J

This is why I am constantly working on creating this kind of content using my home computer, so I can make it free. However, the home models are quite a bit behind the api live models, so it may take a little time. But it will happen, one day ;)

But I respect all types of movies and can see the work that goes into them. I enjoy your work.

Yes thank you, I must say when you told me the price, I was more than a little shocked🥵, as we don't use any AI had little idea of the price, but thought you would be paying about 1p per 5 second clip, and only paying for useable clips.
We don't like seeing anyone get ripped off, that's why I said something, the clip is great and we loved it👍, but the price is nothing but a rip off, and think you should say something about it at the AI site, let the site know they should not get away with this type of pricing, Lady-J

I complain about the price of good Ai too, but thinking about it, back in the day when I shot actual low-budget video with real actors and cameras, my costs were roughly $15 to $20 a minute. That's placing no value on equipment and props, editing, FX, electricity or the countless hours involved to get a finished product. This was twenty years ago too and we're taking 480p video. So I guess what it cost now to do an Ai film is not completely out of line.

True, I can do a good stop motion video for next to nothing, but honestly the quality can't compare to what I can do with a little Ai assist. Of course there are free Ai models out there these day that are pretty decent, That's what I use for the shorties I post here and on DA, but control is limited and you have to contend with their watermark. Most of the time I just slap my own over top of it. 😄

How I use AI—and what it costs
I use two AI multi-model platforms: Open AI and Higgsfield. These give me access to a range of leading image and video models, including Nano Banana for images, and Seedance 2 and Grok Imagine for video.
My subscriptions are:

• Higgsfield Ultimate: about £240 a year, which works out at £20 a month.
  
  
• Open AI Pro: $336 a year, which works out at $28 a month.
  
  

I also have an Open AI team account, which expires in February. That cost considerably more, and I won’t be renewing it. If I can get the AI running on my home computer to produce results close to this standard, I’ll eventually stop renewing the other subscriptions too.

I knew there would be costs involved when I started. Until recently, I mainly created images, so one multi-model platform would have been enough. I just wanted to see which platform I prefer. Now that I’ve started making videos, the credits disappear much faster! So lucky I have both or I would NOT be able to make many video films of this length.

The last film featuring Ickle used all my Open AI credits for the month, plus some from Higgsfield. For the next film, I’m using cheaper models and hoping I can finish the rest of the Halloween story without spending anything extra.

I’ll also try using my home computer for the final film. Otherwise, I’ve still got Higgsfield available for the rest of this month—provided I can make the remaining credits last!