Welcome to the Out of The Box Series — where I test how far curiosity and AI can take you in 30, 60, or 90 minutes, using today’s best no-code and low-code tools. No setup. No training. Just pure exploration — right out of the box. 🎬 This Episode: HeyGen 🕒 Time Limit: 60 Minutes 📂 Category: AI Avatar Video Creation What is HeyGen? HeyGen is an AI video generation platform that turns a photo or default avatar, and a text script into lifelike talking videos. 💡 What I Built in 60 Minutes: Using a series of five close up photos, a few short scripts and HeyGen’s My Avatar, Voice Mirror, and Create Video features I created My Avatar. Once the photos (shown below) were uploaded, I generated a full talking video by just entering a script. Real Avatar Videos: Side Photo (6 seconds): https://app.heygen.com/videos/4e059b101cbc4847bca60f9d8f8a326d Front Photo Holiday Message (24 seconds): https://app.heygen.com/videos/baee6d942e4342dea949c84b75464bcf This is what out of the box really looks like. Just a few photos, a few prompts, and 60 minutes. Interested in HeyGen? Click here https://www.heygen.com/invite/7FFDTETE Have a blessed and creative AI day! @Michael Wacht

Welcome to the Out of the Box series — where I explore what can be built with no-code and low-code AI tools in 30, 60 or 90 minutes. No manuals. No tutorials. Just curiosity and creation in motion. 🧩 App: Sora 2 by OpenAI 🕒 Time: Under 90 Minutes 📂 Category: AI Video Reimagining of a boyhood dream 🎥 What Is Sora 2? An AI video generation platform that transforms a simple text prompt into lifelike, cinematic scenes — complete with movement, lighting, and personality. It’s like having a film crew, actor, and editor… all powered by one prompt and the inspiration of visually capturing a dream. ⚙️ What I Did Out of the Box I continued to experiment with Sora 2 by moving beyond still pictures as in Out of the Box in 60. This is what happens when you can finally capture a childhood dream that follows you your entire life… Meet Wilder Wilder is my first artistic attempt to bring to life the wolf who has visited my dreams since I was six years old. Every two years, like clockwork, a wolf would appear in my dreams. Always six feet behind me. Always with piercing blue eyes. Always present… but never attacking. Scene 1: Wilder experiences the wolf for the first time. Click to view the scene: https://sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_6928cb4492a88191a3781b3b9724c23b 🎬How it was created: I built Wilder and the wolf by testing and refining several Sora 2 prompts, creating a character, and shaping the wolf and the scene until it started to resemble my recurring dream.

Tried Gemini 3 Pro the moment it launched… and ended up building a whole app for my AI crash course 😂 It’s a simple tool that lets me beam prompts live to my team’s screens during the session, so they can copy paste prompts into their LLM to see and experience and learn. Nothing fancy — just super useful.

Welcome to the Out of the Box series — where I explore what can be built with no-code and low-code AI tools in30, 60 or 90 minutes. No manuals. No tutorials. Just curiosity and creation in motion. 🧩 App: Sora 2 by OpenAI 🕒 Time: Under 90 Minutes 📂 Category: AI Video Reimagining of a boyhood dream 🎥 What Is Sora 2? An AI video generation platform that transforms a simple text prompt into lifelike, cinematic scenes — complete with movement, lighting, and personality. It’s like having a film crew, actor, and editor… all powered by one prompt and the inspiration of visually capturing a dream. ⚙️ What I Did Out of the Box I continued to experiment with Sora 2 by moving beyond still pictures as in Out of the Box in 60. This is what happens when you can finally capture a childhood dream that follows you your entire life… Meet Wilder. Wilder is my first artistic attempt to bring to life the wolf who has visited my dreams since I was six years old. Every two years, like clockwork, a wolf would appear in my dreams. Always six feet behind me. Always with piercing blue eyes. Always present… but never attacking. Of course, as a child, I considered it a nightmare vs a dream. I did not recognize it was there to comfort and watch over me until much later in life, but that is a story for another day. Today, with the power of AI, I amazingly have the ability to try and bring that lifelong dream to life... 🍿This is Wilder. A short scene of my dream created with Sora 2. Click to view the scene: https://sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_6916a2b692848191a941613824e04fb7?psh=HXVzZXItMnE1cXRLYW5iTUpQcEhtaDNsZ0lnV0s0.Tb-Ssk32bKcR

Welcome to the Out of the Box series — where I explore what can be built with no-code and low-code AI tools in 60 minutes or less. No manuals. No tutorials. Just curiosity and creation in motion. 🧩 App: Sora 2 by OpenAI 🕒 Time: Under 60 Minutes 📂 Category: AI Video Creation / Presenter Avatar 🎥 What Is Sora 2? An AI video generation platform that transforms a simple text prompt into lifelike, cinematic scenes — complete with movement, lighting, and personality. It’s like having a film crew, actor, and editor… all powered by one prompt. ⚙️ What I Did Out of the Box I continued to experiment with Sora 2 by starting with random food pictures I have recently taken while on a business trip. The opening frame is the original picture. Started with a Picture of Pizza 1 https://sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_6908b5f9c3048191ae35ef577ebdd167 Started with a Picture of Picture of Sushi Dinner https://sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_6908b600a6dc8191a65cd59c41e31bb4 Started with a Picture of Picture of Glass of Beer and Diet Coke https://sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_69065afd92988191a33cd865827a7c30 In one take, for each picture, Sora 2 produced a series of realistic videos, with obvious flaws. However, considering this is "out of the box" with no refinement, no studio, no lights, no post-production. 🔥 Why It Matters This isn’t a pre-rendered template or cartoon avatar. It’s a series of real-life pictures that came to life — a glimpse of how personal content creation is being reinvented by generative video. 💡 Result: A complete “picture-to-video” series, rendered straight from prompts in Sora 2, iPhone app — all in under 60 minutes. ⚡ Takeaway Sora 2 collapses the gap between idea → execution. If you can upload a picture and describe the scene, you can direct it. The question is no longer can AI make your video — it’s how personal do you want it to feel?