Stepped away from “work” to play a bit with video. I am not a video person but wanted to challenge myself. Took @Danney Tee’s awesome notes and write-up and challenged myself to create a trailer video. I wanted to tackle character and product consistency, play with movement, and just stay curious, have fun, and learn. Here’s a teaser - will update with the video and lessons learned when it’s done. Danney’s original post and inspiration: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/i-turned-a-reference-reel-into-an-ai-headphone-ad?p=07166dea

I made a fictional Reelix headphone ad and then a 6-minute breakdown of how it came together. The lesson I want to show is that the prompt is only one part of the job. We studied camera, pacing, texture and humor in a reference; built consistent character, location and prop sheets; reviewed storyboards before video; then used feedback to fix scale, action, continuity and sound. The video shows the finished film first and then the decisions behind it. I would love your honest director's note: where would you have changed the cut or the process? Film / breakdown: https://youtu.be/Ori5IKVOT_Y Guide and prompts: https://danneytrieu.github.io/vibe-film-sessions/reelix-ad.html (come to weekend session) Inspiration: RD / @theartofrd — https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd1NIt2RANH/ ; Joseph Abed's headphone camera reference — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdQAyJvW8lQ

I am seriously over the moon right now!! I have been running so low on higgsfield credits on the last few days. So I tried explored couple FREE approaches with code, here are some of the result for this song visual concept. The five approaches (top-left of the video is the AI original for comparison): A · 2D kaleidoscope (Python): spinning rings, triangles and orbs. It has its own style, close to your ref 3, but it’s flat and doesn’t match your approved frames. B · GLSL shader tunnel: the way VJs build tunnels in TouchDesigner and Shadertoy. Very clean and renders 3× faster than real time, but it’s geometry only, with no glass or petals. C · Three.js 3D scene: a real 3D world where triangle rings, glass shards and gold petals fly past the lens. It has the most depth and gives the pop-out feeling, but needs the most tuning. D · My approved Bloom frame, remixed: her shape is painted out of the frame, and the frame becomes an endless zoom tunnel. It looks almost exactly like the AI version because it is the AI frame. I already have frames for all 8 looks, so every world is free. E · D inside a neon frame: her head breaks out over the top edge, the pop-out effect that works from every seat.

I only started making AI videos around April. I was playing with Higgsfield, figuring things out one video at a time, with no real idea where it would lead. Then I found this community, and honestly, as it grew, I grew with it. Jake gave me my first real shot with Vibe Film (host on community every Saturday), and then brought me on as one of the coaches in the Lyceum. I've learned so much from teaching those classes, and I've met so many great people here and in class along the way. Now here's my second win. This October 31st, my sister Hannah and I are the AI Visual Directors for KimLoi's Hello America Concert at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, one of the most iconic stages in Las Vegas. Celine Dion, Elton John, and Adele have all played that room. It's also the same stage where BLACKPINK's LISA starts her residency a couple of weeks later. It's about 4,300 seats, mostly Vietnamese-American families, plus a worldwide livestream, all in front of a 110 × 43 ft LED wall. One of the singers, Đức Phúc, won The Voice Vietnam and Intervision 2025. One of his song alone has 170M views. None of this happens without this community, and a special thank you to @Jake Van Clief @Sonija Quinn @Matthew Creamer and team for the endless supports 🙏. It's even more meaningful that the 1st official check I got for Reelix Studio LLC (my new startup) is from this very community. Here's the honest situation. The show grew from 1 hour of visuals to 3.5 hours, with about 28 songs, and most of them are slower Vietnamese ballads. Right now it's just the two of us, and we have under three weeks. So we're building the visual loop system first, with clean loops that carry most of the songs, and we'll circle back for custom moments if time allows. Where I need help: 🫰Funding. Sponsorships start at $1K and go straight into generation credits and editors. You get your logo on the LED wall, an MC thank-you and an outro credit, and the higher tiers add tickets, a sponsor video and an on-stage moment. The proposal and reel are below. The fund will goes straight to the stage visual production.

Welcome to Clief Notes. Here’s where to start. 👋 You don’t need to watch the entire classroom before trying something. Pick a starting point, make something small, and bring your questions back here. 🧭 Find your way around Navigating the Course shows you what’s here and how to get around. If you’re new to working with AI, start with The Foundation. We work through prompting, context, and organizing your files so you can give an AI a job you can actually check. 🛠️ Never ran a coding agent or folder strcutre? Jump into Module 4 This is a good starting point if you want to work through a practical example. The short videos mix animation with actual app screenshots, and there’s a fictional practice folder you can follow along with. - 4.1: Install and First Use — Get oriented and try your first task. Grab the Foundation Practice download from Resources here. - 4.2: Working With Files — Turn meeting notes into a decision list, then check where each decision came from. - 4.3: Think, Then Build — Compare your options, choose an approach, and approve a short brief before asking for the finished work. - 4.4: Project Instructions — Leave useful instructions with your project so you have less to explain next time. - You’ll find guidance for Claude Code and Codex, plus a regular chat route where you save the files yourself. 💬 Use the check-ins At the bottom of the lessons, you’ll find polls and discussion posts. Share what you tried, what worked, and what needed correcting.