I've taken advantage of the free daily credits from Galaxy just for checking in since I joined. But today for the first time that option did not appear. I wonder if this is a glitch, or just me, or if they have discontinued it. That was a fantastic way to double monthly credits!

Hi, all - here's my latest, again combining CA5 with AI elements. The first story (Movie Theater Rules) is the most recent one. In this one, the interior theater lobby background started as a stock image with no characters. I edited the image a bit in AI to suit my needs, then had Seedance animate the characters in the background. I made some additional adjustments in Photoshop and Final Cut Pro, then pulled the video into CA5 as a prop and made it the background of the scene. The blue monster's flying popcorn was also animated in AI. I had the image of the popcorn bucket, and I created the first frame of the animation with a green background. Then I had Seedance animate the popcorn flying out of the bucket and all across the frame. That took multiple tries - the popcorn bucket and the camera had to remain stationary, but AI kept moving them. The flying popcorn scene was a bit trickier. I did the animation of the characters in CA5 and placed the AI popcorn animation on the Z axis so that it lined up with the blue monster's position. So Officer Bob and the first row of seats were in front of the flying popcorn, then I had the popcorn animation with the green screen background, then everything else behind it. I output just the Bob/front row/popcorn layers as one video. Then I turned off those layers and output the scene again with only the background layers. In Final Cut Pro I layered the two outputs, and applied the chromakey (green screen) filter so the green background disappeared and Bob and the first row of seats were in front of the popcorn, and everything else was behind the popcorn, creating the illusion I was going for. Later in the video, we actually see the movie that the characters are watching, and those clips were done entirely in AI... the dancing dinos/bunny and the pirate ship scene. I inserted them into the movie theater frame using green screen again.

Hello my AI production friends - how are ya? I haven't caught up in the class yet, lagging way behind, but wanted to share my latest. I have not yet been able to do a full AI-generated production that I'm comfortable posting on my channel, but I am finding ways to use AI more and more in my productions. This video is a compilation - the first video (Shark Hunt song) is the most recent. I always put the newest video first, then include approximately 20 minutes of additional videos to help increase average view duration and the number of ad breaks that run. The main characters (Zack and Maya) are my IP, established characters on my channel. I animate them using Cartoon Animator 5. The shark and the octopus are characters from Reallusion marketplace that I animated in CA5 as well. Most of the backgrounds were generated using AI, and one thing I did differently this time was to use AI to ANIMATE the backgrounds instead of using still images. It worked well in this particular production, bringing the sea weed and corals to life. I started with still images (2D animation style), set those as the first frame, and prompted Seedance or Kling to animate the backgrounds. On several of them, I had Claude refine my prompts, which was very helpful. I also created the giant snapping clams, the eels, and the camera movement through "Octopus Alley" (at around 2:20) using AI. These steps saved me a LOT of time during the animation process. I post a new video every two weeks, so any step that can save time is helpful. That's why I signed up for this class! I will definitely continue animating the backgrounds using AI. It's subtle, but adds to the overall effect, in my opinion. The camera motion through the coral reef was done in Seedance 2. I used a range of tools and services to get all these different results, some from my galaxy subscription, some from my Freepik subscription, which uses a lot of the same tools, honestly. I probably don't need them both, but I like the flexibility to be able to switch back and forth, and I also like being able to start with a stock image in Freepik and edit it with AI tools. I did that with several of the backgrounds, and used many as style references.

@Mark Diaz Could you post the instructions to get that galaxy.ai reminder on our phone again? You told us during a call but I just got a new iPhone and don't remember the steps.

Here's the next attempt using Veo text to video with start and end frames entered. I don't know why the dinosaur nest/egg suddenly moves. This also doesn't include the dialogue that's supposed to happen here, I don't know how to include that.