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WOW! AI Sakuga Animation is here! WOHOOO!!!!
Ok - I am sooooo excited. Just saw the new update on Vidu Q3 Available on Galaxy! So if you use Galaxy, you can now do Sakuga This is the prompt I used: "Epic explosive sword fight, intense camera moves, explosive moves, anime, sakuga style, intense." If you use Galaxy, try using my image, or the one by @Rina Waithera , or one of your own, and go to: 1. AI Video Generator 2. Select Image to Video 3. Click on the model, and search for "Vidu", and select Vidu Q3 4. Use a prompt that asks for intense sakuga style animation This is the prompt I used: "Epic explosive sword fight, intense camera moves, explosive moves, anime, sakuga style, intense." NOTE: It is relatively "expensive", it costs around 1.28M Credits for 8 sec in Galaxy ($1.28 USD) And directly in Vidu.com it appears to be a tiny bit cheaper... at $1.13 USD for 8 sec animation.
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@Kipley Wentz and @Emmy Okoye you're both asking exactly the right questions, and honestly, this is the most important conversation we can have here. What you're describing is real. Most of what you see online is just isolated moments stitched together, cool-looking clips with no continuity, no authorial voice, no story logic. That frustration is completely valid, and it points to a gap that most AI tutorials never address. But here's the reframe I want you to hold onto, and this is the core of what I'm teaching in this training: You are not an AI prompter. You are an AI Director. Think about what a director actually does on a film set. They don't perform every shot themselves, they have a crew, tools, and technology doing the heavy lifting. But they decide what story is being told, they decide how it's told, what the camera sees, what gets cut, what stays. They say yes to this angle and no to that one. They bring the unified vision that makes a Jackie Chan fight scene feel unmistakably like a Jackie Chan fight scene, not the stuntmen, not the camera operator. That's your role with AI. The AI is your crew. A very powerful, sometimes unpredictable crew, but your crew. This new update is a perfect example of what I mean. It doesn't hand you a finished scene. It hands you options, segments of an action sequence that you then evaluate, select, reject, and assemble. That selection process is your creative voice. Which moment do you keep? Which do you cut? How does this beat lead into the next one? Those decisions, made deliberately and consistently across your entire project, are what create continuity, style, and authorial identity. The pipeline, the consistency, the "how do we get from Scene 1 to the end" that's exactly what we're building here. It's not magic, it's a repeatable directing workflow. And it starts with you owning the role of Director, not just hoping the machine surprises you with something good.
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@Kipley Wentz SHORT ANSWER: By controling the input and controlling the output. The skills needed for each are: - INPUT: Learn how to Edit Images. When you can control the images you put in each panel, you control your animation - OUTPUT: Learn how to Edit Video. When you know how to pick the best from what you get in AI Generated Content, you can put together a story. Here is an example. Both of these animations are 1 min long. - The first one is going with what AI gave me using Utopai - The second one is me selecting and editing, putting together the right shots at the right times.
[NEW TUTORIAL] Complete AI Animation in ONE Place (No Editing Software)
Hey there, You know how creating an animated short usually means juggling 3-4 different tools — a script doc, an animation app, a video editor, and hours of stitching everything together? What if you could skip all of that? I just dropped a new video where I go from a story idea to a fully finished animated short in minutes using ONE platform called Pai by Utopai Studios. No Premiere. No CapCut. No timeline editing at all. Now if you are like me, then you can take the finished animated sequence and edit it more to polish it as I show in the video tutorial today. Here's what blew me away: ✅ You write your script right inside the tool ✅ It generates characters you can actually approve and adjust ✅ You get full keyframe control, so it's not just "AI slop" ✅ You can export to 4K if you want to fine-tune in your own editor Whether you're just starting out or you've been animating for years, this changes the game for how fast you can go from concept to finished piece. 👉 Watch the full walkthrough here I show you the entire workflow step by step so you can follow along and try it yourself. 🔗 Try Utopai here
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@Mark Burrows Haaa --- well, if that software tells the story exactly the way you want it, then you don't need to learn anything else. Here is how you can upgrade after finishing this training. The subtle difference that makes a HUGE DIFFERENCE is the ability to Visualize a better version, and be able to execute it with good editing, and sound design
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And of course I'm looking forward later to see the action scene,After I release the training on it, I'm still working on mine
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@Kipley Wentz hahaha
Nano Banana 2 seems to be an idiot... understanding Left and Right
Have you tried Nano Banana 2? And when you try to create a character in a specific direction, how are your results? For some reason, I keep getting stupid mistakes. I want a character to be in 3 quarters, looking to the right of the screen, and all the time, it gets it wrong. Gets it flipped. Anyone else struggling with this? Also, Nano Banana 2 made the tool dumber. Nano Banana Pro WAS better... but unfortunately, because Nano Banana 2 is dumber for me, Nano Banana Pro also became dumber. In the past, prompts that used to work perfectly with Nano Banana Pro now stopped working altogether. I experimented recreating past images where I used Nano Banana Pro using the exact prompt, but now it is getting it all wrong. It is very frustrating. If anyone has experimented with this, and has been able to work better with other models, let me know
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@Michel Diamantis have you tried SeedDance 2? That's the one I'm going to be using for the animation of my action sequences. Apparently it is amazing.
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@Michel Diamantis it is not out there yet, it was launched in China, and it appears that will be launched mid March or April worldwide
Anyone interested in generating income from your AI Skills?
AI Directing and Producing is a money making skill. And in the past... @Richard Duszczak asked how much would I charge for animating. Business Skills help you make even more money if you know your customer, and your competition. Case in point: I just got offered $300 usd to create a YouTube video promoting a tool that apparently helps create animations with a beautiful pipeline that allows you to create storyboard panels, then put your scenes together. I instead offered a counter offer with massive value, and now, they are willing to pay 10X+ more than what they originally mentioned. I ofered a package for $3,200, and they agreed. Now, I am still not 100% sure if I am going to help them launch this new AI Platform because I first need to use it and have to love it to recommend it to my students. But in general, I would like to know if anyone is interested in learning business to charge more for your work, and positioning your offer in a way that the prospect customer gets excited to pay more.
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@Cathy Ferguson maybe you can't afford it for now but it seems to me that in the future if you could afford it, you would happily hire someone to do the AI productions for you, correct? That is exactly my point with this: there is demand. I have demand for it and I also know at least three more friends willing to hire someone who is good at it. Good, meaning that the work doesn't look generically made with AI
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