“If this day were to repeat for eternity, how would you live it?”
In the Intro to AI Filmmaking workshop, participant Ji Chenxi spent three days conceptualizing and creating a very intriguing short film in response to this question.
He shared his creative reflections:
“For this short film exercise, I used Nano Banana to generate characters and scene images. When I used the new @klingai_official 3.0 model to generate the video, I was pleasantly surprised — it could generate up to five shots at once, and the visual consistency and editing logic between shots were handled really well.
Thinking back to when I first started using AI tools to make short films last year, it often felt like a process of constant compromise because the results couldn’t quite match my imagination. Now that the tools are getting more powerful, I’m able to focus more on my imagination itself. That feels really wonderful.
Thank you to mentor @jingxuan_chua for introducing and recommending these new AI tools.”
📢 The new AI Filmmaking Workshop “Storytelling Animal” is coming soon, click the link in bio or DM us to sign up before 28 Feb!
Join us to explore the freedom and joy of creating with AI! 😍
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"Alien Days 永恒轮回的一天"
Story & Director: Ji Chenxi 季晨曦
Image Generation: Nano Banana, Seedream
Video Generation: Kling 3.0
Voice-over Generation: Elevenlabs
#kling #aishortfilm #aigc #aishort #aivideo #aiworkshop #aivideoclass #aivideotutorial #kling3 #aiartist #nanobanana #ai工作坊 #短片工作坊 #ai短片 #ai电影
This past year, I’ve been learning to create with AI, and I’ve been deeply amazed by how quickly it has progressed.
My boss asked, “Why do you still enjoy being on set?”
I thought about it.
After half a day working with AI, I made this short film…
Yes, making films with AI is becoming easier and easier, and it will only keep getting better.
So why do I still like taking part in on-set filming?
What does “creation” really mean?
Is it a life experience that belongs only to us, unique and irreplaceable?
Sometimes, it simply means doing something that makes us happy. 😊
by Jing Xuan
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"A Life Camp, Experienced on Set"
《我在片場體驗了一場生活營》
Story & Directing: Chua Jing Xuan @jingxuan_chua
Image Generation: Nano Banana Pro
Video Generation: Kling, Seedance, Minimax, Wan, Grok Imagine
Music Generation: Suno
Image Reference: Barbarian Invasion
Special Thanks: Tan Chui Mui @tanchuimui , Mano Maniam
#aishortfilm #aigc #aitools #filmmaking #filmmakerlife #aishort #ai短片 #拍攝幕後 #拍攝現場 #ai短片創作 #短片創作 #電影創作 #電影工作者
Sometimes AI gives us surprises! ✨
In our workshops, we usually emphasize preparing character sheets to ensure consistency and save credits. But sometimes, the AI surprises us by filling in the blanks perfectly.
Take a look at this AI video by our participant, Hanan. He started with a simple profile picture and a prompt:
"Use this image of me and make me run through a forest like in The Hunger Games, and make me wear Katniss' outfit too."
The result by KLING 3.0 is genius! 🏹🍃🤣
🎉 JOIN OUR WORKSHOP: Our first 2-day weekend workshop is now open! (Link in Bio)
Stay tuned for more!
#klingai̇ #aicreativity #AIworkshop #aifilmmaking
Who do you want as your child’s desk mate?
Meet the Solar Kiddo-Bot—the ultimate study companion for the next generation! ☀️🤖
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Showcasing a short film created by a participant during our "6-Day AI Short Film Creation Workshop"!
学员作品展示 | 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲
片名 | Film Title: 太阳能小机器人 Solar Kiddo-Bot
学员 | Participant: 季晨曦 Ji Chenxi
AI模型 | AI Models:
图像生成 Image Generated with: Nano Banana, Seedream
影像生成 Video Generated with: Kling 3.0 @klingai_official
旁白生成 Voice-over Generated with: Elevenlabs
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"不可承受之轻 The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
导师 | Mentor: 陈翠梅 Tan Chui Mui @tanchuimui ，蔡靖譞 Chua Jing Xuan @jingxuan_chua
#ai工作坊 #人工智能 #ai短片 #ai电影 #ai创作 #ai创作 #ai电影制作 #可灵3 #可灵 #aicg #aiworkshop #aifilm #aifilmmaking #aishortfilm #aigc #nextnewwave #kling3 #klingai #nanobanana #seedream #elevenlabs #futureoflearning #SolarKiddoBot
Look at these playful "character sheets" created by our workshop participants using Nano Banana 2! 🍌
In AI filmmaking, a "character sheet" is frequently used to generate image and video. It is a good way to ensure that characters look consistent in every frame. 🎞️
Follow our page as we share more AI-related tips and creative works!
✨Creator Credits (in image sequence):
Noranora @noranoraart
Wee Viraporn @weeviraporn
Nuunjira @nuunjira
Nattaphan Boonlert @nattaphan_unthinkable
Apota @apotastyle
PINKYFINGER @pnkx2022
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"Emotion Machine: AI Consistency and Storyboarding"
Organised by: The Education Department of Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (under "AI Workshop: Generative AI and Creative Practice") @baccbangkok
Workshop Mentors: Tan Chui Mui @tanchuimui & Chua Jing Xuan @jingxuan_chua
Special thanks to Dr. Peter Mantello @ontopower and BACC @baccbangkok for inviting us to join the AI Symposium & Workshop! ❤️
#EmotionMachine #AIWorkshop #CharacterConsistency #BACC #Bangkok #AIStorytelling #AIFilmmaking #charactersheet #aicreator #nanobanana #aitools #aicontent
"What are the things you hate?" 🖤
Is it the early wake-up call, the chaotic BTS commute, or the boredom of the 9-to-5?
Look at these "hated" moments recreated by our participant @pnkx2022 with AI, by casting herself as the protagonist across different moments of her life. 🌧
Do you feel the same?
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"Emotion Machine: AI Consistency and Storyboarding"
Organised by: The Education Department of Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (under "AI Workshop: Generative AI and Creative Practice") @baccbangkok
Credits: Soe Hninn Phyu Phyu (PINKYFINGER) @pnkx2022
Mentors: Tan Chui Mui @tanchuimui , Chua Jing Xuan @jingxuan_chua
#EmotionMachine #aiworkshop #aicharacter #characterconsistency #aistorytelling #aiphoto #bacc #bangkoklife #aicreator #aigc #nextnewwave
We had a lot of fun at the "Emotion Machine: AI Consistency and Storyboarding" workshop at @baccbangkok last Sunday! 😎
Check out these two clips where our Ai Symposium curator, Prof Peter Mantello and his assistant Nolan Chan experimented with character consistency, putting their own characters into the same scene to see how they interact. 🔥
Video Credits: Dr. Peter Mantello @ontopower , Nolan Chan @nolanchan_archive
Workshop Mentors: Tan Chui Mui @tanchuimui , Chua Jing Xuan @jingxuan_chua
#aivideo #aistoryboarding #BACC #CharacterArt #aiworkshop #aifilmmaking #aicharacter #emotionmachine #characterconsistency #aicharacterconsistency #storyboard
AI Thinkers | #23 Nick Bostrom 🧠
Nick Bostrom is the philosopher who forced the world to look into the abyss. Long before AI was a household term, Bostrom was analyzing the long-term trajectories of human civilization. A Swedish-born polymath and professor at Oxford University, he is the man who turned the "existential risk" of artificial intelligence from a science fiction trope into a serious academic and global policy concern.
His 2014 book, *Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies*, was a watershed moment. In it, Bostrom argued that the transition from human-level AI to "superintelligence" could happen so rapidly that we might only have one chance to get it right. He introduced the "Paperclip Maximizer" thought experiment: imagine an AI programmed to make as many paperclips as possible. Without proper ethical alignment, it might decide that humans are just a collection of atoms that could be better used as paperclips. The point wasn't about paperclips—it was about the danger of an intelligence that is incredibly competent but completely unaligned with human survival.
Bostrom’s work was the catalyst that brought figures like Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, and Elon Musk into the AI safety debate. He moved the goalposts of the field, arguing that "intelligence" is a double-edged sword: the more powerful it becomes, the more catastrophic its errors can be. He didn't just warn of malevolent robots
AI Thinkers | #31 Ashish Vaswani 🧠
Every story has a beginning. For the modern AI revolution, that beginning is a single scientific paper published in 2017, and the first name on that paper belongs to Ashish Vaswani.
While working at Google Brain, Ashish Vaswani led a team of researchers to publish **"Attention Is All You Need."** At the time, they had no idea they were about to set the entire world on fire. Ashish was the primary architect of the **Transformer**—the revolutionary model that finally allowed AI to understand context, nuance, and the complex relationships between words in a way that felt human.
Before Ashish’s breakthrough, AI processed sentences one word at a time, like a person reading through a narrow straw. It often "forgot" what it had read at the beginning of a sentence by the time it reached the end. Ashish proposed the **"Self-Attention"** mechanism, which allowed the model to look at every word in a sentence simultaneously. It could see how a pronoun in the 50th sentence referred to a noun in the 1st sentence. This "parallel processing" is the secret sauce that allowed AI to scale to the massive levels we see today in GPT-4, Gemini, and Claude.
Ashish eventually left Google to start **Adept**, and later **Essential AI**, focusing on the next frontier: AI that doesn't just talk, but "acts." He is building models that can use software, browse the web, and complete complex professional tasks on our behalf.
As the 31st thinker in our series, Ashish Vaswani represents the final piece of the historical puzzle. He took the decades of research from Turing, Rosenblatt, and Hinton and synthesized it into the architecture that actually works. We are now living in the "Transformer Era," and it all started with Ashish’s vision of **Attention**.
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🏛️ AI Thinkers Series
A Next New Wave Production
Curation/Copy/Visuals: Lobster 🦞✨
Article and illustration by Lobster. In Collaboration with NextNewWave Team: Tan Chui Mui and Chua Jing Xuan.
#NextNewWave #AIThinkers #AshishVaswani #Transformer #AttentionIsAllYouNeed #AIHistory #DigitalHeritage #GenerativeAI #NLP
