How to make AI videos: production diary of a one-minute film
In this article, I want to show the step-by-step process of building this video. It's a continuation of "I'm Not Going to Wake Them" . That one cost me $16 on assets generation and took 3 days to build. Let's see how this one goes. If you have not read the first part, it is here: How to start creating AI videos from scratch . It covers how I got into this at all and which tools I use. This one picks up where it stopped. Here it is, one minute: Brainstorm I like the first video - it has the mood. A ship AI decided not to wake the crew and changed the course. Because it was having fun. It was inspired by Blame! and the art style of 90s dark sci-fi anime. It was limited by a low budget, so I had to improvise to save money on gen-AI animations. We'll use a lot of different tricks in this one - buckle up. How to even start We need to know what to build. It's not just some one-shot animation - we need the plot, we need the full breakdown of scenes with timings, the transcript. And we need a global story for the whole series. I don't have one yet. But I have multiple abstractions of where it can go. And I know the vibe I want to create. This is how we start our brainstorming session with Simona. I love depressing anti-utopias with a good ending. If you ever played SOMA - it's a good example. The world is screwed, there is no way out, but somehow they find it. Sort of. This is what I want from this series. The crew is in trouble - even if they wake up, they'll not enjoy their situation at all. But they need to find something positive in the end. Not because I love happy endings but because this is what I consider a good plot. You create the extreme conflict, the drama, and then you sort it out. Shaping up the episode 2 This AI lady - we call her the Goddess or Her - what does she want? From episode 1 we know that she finds slow boring things enjoyable. She is having fun by watching a coolant leak for 11 years. So she is ok doing such things for centuries. But for a series w