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We took on a challenge of using AI to help create every shot of this retro sci-fi trailer:
• SOL KILLER | AI Trailer
AI TOOLS
Midjourney - For all the base image creation, generating matte paintings and set extensions, and for creating some of the VFX assets.
Adobe Photoshop Generative Fill - For extending set extensions, and matte paintings, and adding static elements to shots.
Eleven Labs - AI voice generator used to create the narration.
PixelCut - For upscaling images.
LeiaPix - For adding motion to some still images.
NON-AI TOOLS
CapCut - For all the video editing, sound design, color grading and additional effects.
Adobe After Effects - For compositing and adding VFX elements.
Video Copilot - For 3D animation inside After Effects.
PROMPT EXAMPLES
retro sci-fi fantasy film still of a princess with her face covered by a veil on an alien planet --aspect 16:9
1950s sci-fi fantasy film still of a massive arch on an alien planet --aspect 16:9
a massive planet from orbit, film still --aspect 16:9
distant shot of a large spaceship on a solid black background --aspect 16:9
cinematic full body shot of a scary alien villain realistic film still --aspect 16:9
massive spaceship in the distance, film still --aspect 16:9
film still of retrofuturistic spaceship cockpit --aspect 16:9
chrome starfighter film still --aspect 16:9
half of a planet, realistic, film still --aspect 16:9
massive starship on a solid black background --aspect 16:9
closeup of massive ringed planet as seen from space, film still --aspect 16:9
massive spaceship graveyard, film still --aspect 16:9
giant on alien planet, in the style of Denis Villeneuve, film still --aspect 16:9
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:15 Narration
00:49 Music
01:20 Placeholders
02:09 AI Imagery
02:59 VFX
04:06 Sound Design
04:48 Color Grading & Effects
05:28 The Trailer
SOL KILLER
It is said that long ago, The Galaxy was once a peaceful and prosperous place. Ever since The Fall, it has descended into chaos. Warlords, slavers, pirates... all manner of horrors now plague these lands. A select few were chosen by The Old Ones for one reason... to restore order to the universe. Many have died, but one man remains…
That man... is Sol Killer.
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Umm… you glossed over the motion effects. Thats what people watching this want to see.
To show each motion effect in detail would take forever, so we just covered as many of them as we could without making this a thirty minute video. Haha. We already have other videos on compositing and VFX, but we’ll probably make more specific to this if there’s enough interest.
@@FILMCRUXyes please
exactly what I thought.... Its like saying "this is how we build our own car" then showing how we mount the tires and fill them with air
@@marcbaechtold If that’s all you got from this, then going into more detail would not have helped you because you missed everything we did explain here.
Your comment is good for competition lol^^ STOP POSTING MAN, I SAID!! HAHAHA^^
Bravo! 👏🏻 Nice work guys. I'd love to see a break down of the sound design and why you designed it the way you did. I think those videos are extremely helpful for those of us who have purchased your audio packages. 👌
Thank you so much! That’s a great idea! We might do that. Maybe we’ll do some more sound design specific videos.
@@FILMCRUX - Thank you for all that you do. There was one sound design video that you did that made me aware of the FilmCrux team and products. I'm guessing you know the one. Maybe it got picked by the algorthym. 🤷♂
@@mlegrand No problem! Thank you! You must mean our 13 Sound Design Tips video. If this is the one, we actually have another one planned, so keep a look it for it! kzhead.info/sun/Z8upg9d-fJ6Vh2g/bejne.htmlsi=49ULBENuaOPwm2Ua
Nice short and sweet class!!! Thanks !!
No problem! So happy to help!
Honestly it's this level of grandeur that's been missing from Star Wars (well good stories wouldn't hurt). Some of the best movies in history have no dialogue, just grand vistas, and sweeping music to convey emotion, such as Luke Skywalker looking up at the twin sun's setting and we immediately know the longing and sadness that he may be stuck on this moisture farm forever. Of course, these shots can't exist in a vacuum, dialogue still needs to drive character and plot. It seems sometimes when I watch new movies that the filmmakers didn't even study these basic concepts in film school. Too often, every split second is filled with dialogue as an excuse to get to the next action scene, meaning there's no drama or tension, no space to allow the audience to experience the emotion. The other mistake made excessively today is over the top CGI. For example, at the end of Star Trek Picard season 1 and Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker, a thousand ships show up for the battle. It's a mess, and the number of ships actually takes AWAY from the drama. How many times in Star Trek did ONE ship decloak in front of the enterprise menacingly to great effect. CGI is a fantastic tool, but it requires careful application so as not to detract from the story.
Couldn’t agree more! This is such a beautiful comment. Thank you. We feel the exact same way. Hayao Miyazaki does this phenomenally in his films. Genndy Tartakovsky as well with his shows Primal and Samural Jack. Miyazaki calls this “ma”, which is emptiness or negative space in films. We actually have plans for an entire film universe for SOL KILLER, and they will be filmed exactly that way; very sparse dialogue with a massive emphasis on visual storytelling, which after all, is the entire point of filmmaking, and it’s what separates it from every other medium.
I think the 80% of that trailer is based on your expertise, not on ai tools looks stunning
Yeah, I like to use AI to extend my own capabilities, especially because I usually like as much involvement in the creative process as possible. That’s the approach we use and try to teach other artists. Thank you for the kind words by the way! Much appreciated. -Lion
As it should. AI was never meant to replace the artist but being a tool in extension to the artist's skills and creative vision. If the artist can be replaced by AI or is over reliant on it, then that only means they're not very good at their craft.
@@FILMCRUX alright it's a Time Saver not a replacement and unfortunately people try to use it more as a replacement and that's why most things look like crap
@@thearcanamodernau8130 Well said. While that’s true, it can of course be used to replace many more artists being needed on a single project by expanding the ability of each individual artist, just like the invention of digital filmmaking. How it’s used is of course up to each individual, and then eventually AI itself.
@@rayge It replaces many things, saves time on many other things, but like all tools, they are only as good as the hands of the artist or craftsman they’re in. That is until of course more AI become artists themselves that do not require input from humans at all. Then both human and AI artists will co-exist as well, but to a far greater degree than they do today.
Can you create a detailed video tutorial? Because it's really cool
Thanks! If there’s enough demand, we might do that here or on FILM CRUX+. Appreciate the kind words!
I would love it
@@OsvaldoBayerista Appreciate it! We just might!
Fascinating. Thanks for such an interesting and helpful tutorial and congratulations on your project.
Thank you for the incredibly kind words! It’s much appreciated Allan!
Funny thing with all these Ai buzz is.. someone'd just asume you go type some prompt and boom.. u a badass... listening to this guy i can tell he is a long practicing visual artist before now... just added the ai images to his workflow
Appreciate it. That’s actually true. People are typically surprised when they find out how much work went into making something like this.
AI is nonsense. It's more or less a fancy search engine. Good for environment background art, or concept art only.
@@artstation707 Your comment is nonsense. It’s not a search engine at all. That’s not how it works. And if that’s all you can imagine it being used for, that says more about your lack of imagination than the tools themselves.
@@FILMCRUX Well, you know, I prefer to keep my imagination private, or at least not give my ideas away to those undeserving of them, unless of course they're willing to offer sufficient compensation. AI is pure stupidity. I sat at my computer for hours trying to get an AI art engine to draw what I asked it to. Although drawing hands is not my strong suit, I'd do a much better job; It is easier to sit down and draw the image myself.
@@artstation707 If that statement is any indication of your level of ideas, you’re unlikely to be compensated very well for them. It sounds like you’re just really bad at using the tools. We’ve seen young children use them with incredible success, so if you’re struggling that much with them, they may just not be for you.
Nicely done! How did you all do the moving dinosaur at 4:43 and the reflections on the spaceship at 5:53? Are those Midjourney models, or other assets?
Thank you so much! The dinosaur is a separate VFX asset I composited in. The spaceship is a 3D model I animated in Element 3D inside After Effects, and I created the reflection by duplicating and flipping the initial model, and repositioning it at the correct angle. Hope that helps, but if you have any other questions, let me know! - Lion
@@Movielabstudio396 Are you wanting to know how to generate similar base images in Midjourney, or something else? Let us know and we’ll be happy to help.
Great Work and Very Informative. Thanks alot.
Much appreciated! Happy to help.
Brilliant work. You've got our imagination gears turning!
Much appreciated! So glad you like it.
Amazing work and tutorial guys! I’ll need to go back and see how u made the ships fly thru etc
Thanks so much for the kind words! If you have any questions, let us know!
One of my new fav channels!
@@thewebstylist Thank you!! That is much appreciated my friend!
Would be nice to see fans teach Hollywood how to do great movies more often! 😊
Glad you liked it! This had a lot of limitations, but keep an eye out for our future stuff where we don’t have to be limited to using AI for every shot.
Hollywood: You can't defeat me I am too powerful! Fans: We know but ai can. Hollywood: O_O
@@roflryan1 Haha. Perhaps, but Hollywood is adopting AI as well. It will help everyone, but it will help indie filmmakers a disproportionate amount, which we’re here for.
@@FILMCRUX I can't wait to make anime.
@@roflryan1 Go for it! You can start learning now.
Mind officially blown! 🤯 This AI trailer is like a rollercoaster for the imagination - buckle up, folks, and let's unravel the mysteries behind the magic! 🚀✨
That’s great to hear! Appreciate the kind words. A lot went into this, so it’s great to see that it’s getting such a response.
Great video! I was wondering how much of the effects/moves were done in graphics/compositing programmes ? There are parallaxes in the movements that wouldn’t be achieved with the key framing you demonstrate. Are you using layers of video and moving them for that or doing this in a 3D programme ? Are all the explosive ‘clouds’ jet trails stock assets or generated. These are not ai right ? Did you do any movement with ai generated video? I’ve found it difficult to do that with existing tools. Many thanks
Thank you so much!! Things like the explosions, spaceship contrails, dinosaur, creature wings, etc, are all VFX assets composited into the scenes. For the parallaxing, I used two main techniques. The first is a web-based AI program called LeiaPix which creates parallax movement in 2D images. The second technique which I didn’t cover here, was that I would generate and image in Midjourney of a subject in an environment. I did this for example with the shot of the woman watching the spaceship fly up and explode. Then I upscaled the image in PixelCut. Then I brought the upscaled image back into Pixel Cut and used the Background Remover to get a new image of just the character on a transparent background. Then I brought the original upscaled image into Photoshop, selected around the character, and used generative fill to remove the character from the scene. I now had two upscaled shots, one of just the character, and one of just the background. This let me put the character on a layer above the background, and keyframe animate movement of each layer separately to create the parallax effect. Hope that helps, but let me know if you have any more questions! -Lion
Hello @@FILMCRUX I really appreciate the feedback. I’m less experienced with compositing and after effects but will def try these parallax. Is ae your recommended approach to fx if I was to explore that route ? Many thanks again
@@liz4ward Definitely After Effects! It’s what we use for all our VFX. We actually learned from Andrew Kramer and his stuff at Video Copilot, so that’s a great place to start, and we’ll do more videos on VFX as well since a lot of people have been asking us questions about that. You’re probably also going to want to get Element 3D inside After Effects. That’s what we use for basically all our 3D VFX.
very nice work, for sure got me inspired. all on capcut aswell very nice. I would think importing into after effects and adding subtle animations that way would take it next level
they used after effects
Appreciate it! We used After Effects as well to design some of the shots, but many of the shots were put together entirely inside CapCut, and the whole thing was edited in CapCut on Desktop as well.
Great Job! Images & motion are amazing! 🤯
Thank you! We’re probably going to make another soon with Sora once that’s released that’s going to blow people’s minds.
@FILMCRUX Is this for your 'resume/portfolio" for major studios? They would be looking for you guys. 👍
@@GetAClueMarketingShow Thank you! We’re going to make feature films and television shows with or without studios. In fact, this is one of our properties that we used for this experiment, but we made this just to showcase the current state of what these AI tools could do at the time. Appreciate that by the way!
Hi filmcrux. The rocket that crosses the image from left to right with a tail, or the birds that fly, how did you do it? is it Leiapix ?
This is amazing... very well defined..
Much appreciated! We actually have an entire property for SOL KILLER. This is just an experiment, but hopefully you’ll be able to see some more actual projects from this property in the future.
Awesome!
Thank you!!
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There are so many game-changing new tools for filmmakers coming out, this is literally the biggest revolution in filmmaking since the invention of cameras themselves.
Should've been a trailer for "Souless".
The irony of your statement with that pfp from Ghost in the Shell is priceless. Hahaha.
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What do you mean?
I use the simple tool with enough good outcome, but your way to create is much more impressive in its final result, great tutorial, thanks!
Thank you! That’s so, so kind of you to say.
Thank you for the knowledge share.
Thank you for the kind words!
This is amazing. After watching this I beseech you to peek into Invoke AI for custom generative builds. PS is great, but greater and focused control is immeasurable when using this. But then again, you may stick with PS. Great watching this guys!
We’ll look into it for sure, and thanks so much for the kind words! We really appreciate it!
I have been editing lately and i find your video the perfect guide for everyone specially for the beginners i also joined TRW they didnt provide the explanation like you do definitely subscribe to this guy THANK YOU!
That’s so great to hear! Much appreciated. What’s TRW by the way?
@@FILMCRUX The real world by Andrew Tate
@@FILMCRUX also how did you add the movements like expulsion and that plane i dont think RunwayML would be useful which i only know
@@SohaibSaidi-G For the contrails we just use a meteor VFX asset, and then put the spaceship above the actual meteor so just the trail of it shows behind the spaceship. We add the ship in Element 3D, and then just animate its movement with keyframes. Hope that helps, but let us know if you have anymore questions!
Thank you. This was awesome. Going to try something like this myself
Much appreciated! Definitely do. The tools have evolved so much since we created this, it’s insane.
But, what about the move elements? Ships, smoke... Etc... Need a tutorial for that 😊. Great content.
As we said for the moving elements, we just took elements like smoke, fog, and other elements and composited them into the shot. We have some other videos already on how we do are space VFX, and we’ll probably make some other compositing and VFX-specific tutorials in the future though as well.
when you say composited... do you mean in this case, you imported them and added as a layer or on an exisiting shot in Capcut? or did you use another program/software to do this? @@FILMCRUX
@@FILMCRUXoh OK so super imposed elements + vfx like after effects elements?
@@rayge Exactly! Here’s a video on how we animate movement and do space VFX for all our videos that further breaks down our method and how easy it is: kzhead.info/sun/o7uiaLmFp5WCp4U/bejne.htmlsi=AtRv0ppvSPGSaBQf
Amazing work. Thanks for sharing. How did you create the jet trails?
Thank you so much! We actually used asteroid VFX assets, put them on a layer beneath the ship 3D models, and then color graded them to be white rather than smoky black! There’s actually very few jet trails available out there so we had to get creative. Haha. We should probably make some, or get our friends at ActionVFX to.
Omg I learned a lot. So much value! Thank you 🙏
No problem! Happy to help. Hopefully we’ll have more on the way soon!
One of the very few times, where the title is not clickbait. This is trully insane. Could you please create a video where you explain how you give motion to these pictures, how you generate them in Midjourney etc etc? Would really help us
Thank you so much! That’s very kind of you to say. We’ll probably make another video where we go into detail on our prompts and some of the other motion effects in the video, as well as a few other things, but if you have any specific things you want to know in the meantime, let us know and we’ll tell you how it was done!
Bruh I'd love to learn more, if y'all dropped a paid tutorial I'd cop for sure@@FILMCRUX
@@FILMCRUX Biggest thing, I think, would be to know how you created the motion for the starfighters in various scenes, such as at the :40 second mark in the trailer or the :53 second mark here on the "How We Made This" video. You created a great sense of speed, and that's the main thing I'd personally be interested in learning how you did it. Also, is there a specific sound library you used for the sound design? You did an excellent job.
@@craiglearner9853 Thank you so much! We’re actually going to do an entire tutorial in the future on how we do our space scenes, especially for animating and compositing spaceships, but basically we use Element 3D inside Adobe After Effects. We just import the 3D model spaceship into Element 3D, animate its movement with keyframes, and make sure to turn on motion blur. We also animate the camera movement separately to add that additional since of kinetic energy and velocity. We then add any other elements into the shot, typically from our SOL Space VFX Packs, and just select the 3D layer on them to make them 3D. We then just move them around in the scene where we want them. As for the sound design library we use, we use a few sounds we’ve collected from random places, but the majority of all our sound design comes from our SINGULARITY Cinematic Sound Effects Library which you can get here: www.filmcrux.com/store/p/singularity Hope that helps, but if you have any other questions, let us know, and make something amazing with it!
@@FILMCRUX - Hey! Thanks so much. I appreciate your reply. I was wondering if you did some of the motion with keyframes. Not to get overly technical, but when you have a moment, could you also say whether you used keyframes to make the starfighters go from close up to long shots within the same scene? In the meantime, I'm definitely looking forward to your full tutorial on animating and compositing spaceships!
Great job! Could you tell us what software you used to enhance the narration 0:35? Thanks!
We used GarageBand which comes standard with Apple computers. Hope that helps!
Amazing!!!
Much appreciated! Thank you so much!
This was amazing ...for motivation and inspiration
That’s so kind of you to say! Much appreciated!
I'm loving this , i love the graphics.
Thank you so much! Really appreciate that. We’ll have more projects like this in the future.
Wow you can create without imagination!
If you think you can create this without imagination, give it your best shot. Haha.
@@FILMCRUX ahaha, yes I insist that your "feeling lucky" button is just this. No imagination, generic art, things that will ruin your real talent. Go and draw it. Think it. Model it, texture, rig, animate, post and I can see that you are good. Otherwise you are just some wierdos with Ai.
@@sergiomarchelli The only thing unimaginative is the inability to use new tools imaginatively.
@@FILMCRUX the new "tools" stealing other designers work. haha.
@@sergiomarchelli We don’t steal. This is all original. These AI tools don’t steal either. You seem like you have no idea how any of this works. Haha.
How did you “normalize” the audio from CapCut to KZhead export? Any tips related to audio when exporting? I recently edited and exported a video on CapCut and the audio had a lot of high “tint” I guess you could call it. Thanks this looked awesome and my main takeaway actually was the storyboard gonna try that next.
Thanks for the kind words! Storyboarding, previs and animatics really changed the game for us. The audio was actually already perfect when we brought it into CapCut, so we didn’t have to do anything with it. CapCut does have some great audio tools built in though. If you have a lot of the high frequency range in your audio, just add something like a 10-band compressor, and bring the high frequencies down a bit. That should do it. Hope that helps, but let us know if you have any other questions!
did you do the 3D title animation for "Sol Killer" at the end using Video Copilot and After Effects?
Yes! Definitely. We’re big fans of Andrew Kramer and Video Copilot. We use his products in our work all the time. We used Element 3D inside After Effects to create that title. We also used our SOL Space VFX packs which you can get in the FILM CRUX Store.
This guys knows definitely what he is doing. I'd assume he's already an artist with a lot of practice. But unfortunately a lot of people think everyone can create an AI Hollywood trailer within a day, without understanding that stuff isn't just easy but it is a whole process to learn them and integrate it into your own workflow. And for sure people don't want to pay more then a pocken money because "AI" is doing everything. However... Thank you so much for this video and giving us this knowledge 😀
Yeah its a little weird to say capcut a lot when wide angle estableshing shots for example are the only zoom in shots you wont see parralax in. So the shots are choosen specifically for it to be doable in capcut and marketed that way. It is not that you can just make whatever you envision. However it is easier than ever to make anything.
No problem! Appreciate the kind words. I definitely don’t want people to think that because AI can do many things, they still don’t have a lot they have to do, or that they shouldn’t put just as much effort into everything they do. The only difference now is that you can get a lot more output for your effort. Hopefully people can take some of these techniques and incorporate them into their own stuff like you said. -Lion
@@closerrl9851 Can you elaborate a bit?
Wow 😲 what an amazing short animation film 🎥 what animation software are you using to create this amazing video . Which AI software
this is insane. great work🚀👀
Thank you so much! That’s so kind of you to say!
Truly fantastic! Beautiful
Thank you so much! Glad you liked it!
@@FILMCRUX Thank you for the beautiful works you propose! If you have any space animation left over we would use it as a video! 🤣 All kidding aside, congratulations!!! Hi, EC
@@etherealcity Much appreciated! Thank you for the kind words. If you want our secret to how we make all our space videos, we actually use our SOL Space VFX packs. You can check them out here: www.filmcrux.com/store/p/sol-bundle Hope that helps!
@@FILMCRUX Amazing!!!! Thanks!!
@@etherealcity No problem! Make something amazing with it!
wow incredible work congs to the team
Thank you for the kind words! That’s so great to hear. Much appreciated!
We need more tutorials like this but for mobile capcut!
You never know? We might make one in the future!
Dear Sir, I am learning from the teaching of this video and would like to ask you, which software do you use for sound mixing? I am currently using Windows software, can you recommend it to me? In addition, I would like to ask you about the shot animation of each video (such as spaceship movement, flying saucer explosion, etc.). Where did you generate or download the animation of these materials?
For the sound mixing we either do it straight in Adobe Premiere Pro (which we use to edit), or in GarageBand which you can see when we’re doing the narration. GarageBand comes standard with all Mac products. Any DAW will work though. As for animating that other spaceships, etc. we use Element 3D inside Adobe After Effects. There are lots of great tutorials on that, but we’ll probably make some as well to go more in depth about our 3D animating process.
Thanks for the info
You’re very welcome my friend.
If I have a script that has two unique actors, is there any way to maintain these same actors throughout the movie, as I continue create new and different prompts for each scene?
Yes, there is. There's a bunch of different methods like using some of Runway, Pika Labs, or Dalle-3's new tools for AI video, creating consistent characters by using image-to-image in Midjourney, and some other tricks, but it would basically require its own whole tutorial to explain. Haha. It's definitely doable though. Just search whatever you're looking for, and add "consistent characters" and you should find some good tutorials that show you how to do it. You can even use. something like InSwapper in Midjourney to make sure your characters always have the exact same face. It's pretty rad. Hope that helps!
Hi, great trailer. Congratulations:) Can you explain how you made the music and soundeffects? Did you use AI for that?
Thank you so much! We actually didn’t use AI for the music or sound effects. The music was an original piece created from scratch. We create music scores professionally, and we also sell packs of them in the FILM CRUX Store called OCTIVE Cinematic Music Libraries. The sound effects we created ourselves as well. They’re from our SINGULARITY and IMMERSION packs also in the FILM CRUX Store, and some of the sound effects are also from Splice. You can get all our stuff here though: www.filmcrux.com/store Hope that helps!
Absolutely amazing you deserve so much more views, congratz ! One of the best content creation I've seen on KZhead and believe me I watched a lot. Is it hard to learn how to do PhotoShops effects like editing your picture to have moon reflecting in the lake just as you showed or not ? what does it take ? Again bravo and thank you so must for sharing and all the tips !
Thank you so much for the kind words! That’s great to hear. Glad you liked it. It’s not hard at all to learn how to use Photoshop Generative Fill. For that image of the lake and the moon reflection, I literally just took the Midhourney image I created, and opened it in Photoshop. I then selected the area of the image with the lake, typed in the prompt on the Generative Fill toolbar, and pressed ‘Generate’. It will then generate three options for you that you can choose from. Or, you can just generate again until you get the one you want. Hope that helps, but if you have anymore questions, just let me know! - Lion
@@FILMCRUX Oh thank you for your answer, best regards !
@@ZinzinsIA No problem! Happy to help!
amazing tutorial thanks a lot!
Much appreciated! Thanks for the kind words!
Sorry for question. Can I ask, what was a budget if this trailer ?
No need to apologize! That’s a great question. There was no budget, unless you count the subscription to a few services like After Effects, and a few tools we already had like Element 3D, this entire project was made for free in a few weeks by a single person.
Great work!! Mind if I ask where you got the images of the female spacesuits? I'm in the beginning phase of creating a futuristic music video and need ideas. Thanks! ~Mike
All the images were generated in Midjourney! It's crazy how good it's gotten. Hope that helps, but if you have anymore questions, just let us know and we'll be happy to help.
@@FILMCRUX Great! I'll try that. I'm a beginner with MidJourney. Are you available for freelance work? I'm learning Unreal Engine and need to make two music videos. I have scripts written for them and will be doing a lot of filming, but also need a lot of virtual production and I still feel quite far away from where I want to get to. Thankyou for your help! ~Mike
@@mikes5079 We do, but we only take on certain projects. If you want to tell us more about what you’re wanting though, just shoot us an email through the FILM CRUX website. If you have any other questions though, let us know!
Amazing. I subscribed! Please make a instruction video for the motion effects like spaceship movements, explosion and etc. What kind of VFX did you use and how can we do like yours?
Thank you! Here’s a video on how we do our space VFX with our SOL Space VFX packs. This works the same way: kzhead.info/sun/o7uiaLmFp5WCp4U/bejne.htmlsi=CxoZ0b6TOClJoSmh The rest of the VFX assets are just animating with Element 3D inside After Effects with 3D models from places like CGTrader, and simple compositing with VFX assets like the ones from ActionVFX. They all have great tutorials, but we may do some of our own videos on those subjects in the future!
Just watching this, great stuff and great breakdown. Do you have a video that goes more in depth on the VFX? Or have a tutorial you would suggest? Thanks!
Much appreciated! Here’s a more in-depth tutorial of how we do space VFX: kzhead.info/sun/o7uiaLmFp5WCp4U/bejne.htmlsi=0qCIhe8VX0PbwFJA For more compositing and other things, we may do more videos in the future, but a great place to start is Video Copilot. Andrew Kramer has some amazing tutorials!
Road to hell is paved with good intentions
So is the road to heaven.
difference is there is no depth in your answer.@@FILMCRUX
Thank You, great tutorial.
Much appreciated! Hope it helps!
Thanks for demonstrating an app for sci-fi /fantasy creation and not another one to create corporate sales presentations.
Haha. No problem. Happy to help. We always try to make what we like.
Wow! I learned a lot from this. Very well presented.
Thank you so much! Glad to hear it helps.
not the ai tiktok voice 💀
It’s not a TikTok voice. It’s just used a lot on TikTok now. It’s from Eleven Labs.
What's the software used to create audio effects for the narration? It had an EQ and sound mixer in the UI at 0:35 .
That’s GarageBand which comes free with all Apple computers and phones. Let us know if you have any other questions!
@@FILMCRUX Thank you, that's very useful to know.
@@WLVFX No problem! Really hope it helps. If you have any other questions, let us know.
Great stuff!!!👌
Much appreciated!
but wait... You didnt say where you added the VFX elements... were you able to add this into CApcut (and how) or did you use another program to make and add VFX? Does Capcut use layers?
CapCut does use layers. Here’s another video we made on what kind of stuff you can do with CapCut on Desktop that shows layers in action: kzhead.info/sun/mtKQeKywqWiKias/bejne.htmlsi=xRlVp55d3kFI8dlh For detailed compositing though we used After Effects. Hope that helps, but if you have any other questions, let us know!
Thank you!
You’re welcome! Hope it helps!
Was the music generated using AI tools or was it more conventionally created?
Great question. The music was actually the one thing I created entirely from scratch without any AI intervention.
that's insane!
Much appreciated my friend!
How r u creating the movements beyond keyframes. Like the trail of smoke
We’re using VFX assets like smoke, fog, etc, and just compositing them into the shot. You can make something like a ship contrail by using a meteor VFX asset for instance. You just drop it into your shot, change the color of the smoke with the ‘Tint’ effect to whatever color you want it to be, then composite in your ship or aircraft on a layer above the meteor, and keyframe it moving at the same rate and speed the meteor moves in the VFX asset. That’s an easy trick we do!
The one thing that makes us special is our creativity. We are selling our soul for such a small price.
If you can’t use these tools creatively, then how creative were you really?
Great
Thank you! Much appreciated!
Damn Awesome!
Much appreciated!!
Is it possible create it completely on iPad? I know for Wix web creator editor it is not possible create web site, you have to use desktop, that's why I am asking. Thx
Some of these things can be done on iPad, but the iPad version of CapCut is different than the desktop version so the features aren’t the same. Midjourney can be used on iPad though, and many of these other tools.
AI is costing real artists their job and is taking the soul out of what it means to create artwork! Don't let it steal your job, but #StayAwake!
Soul is just a made up concept that doesn’t mean anything. We’re more interested in real things, like being creative, experimenting with new tools and ways of doing things, and bringing our dreams to life by making the best work we can with everything at our disposal. If you’re truly an artist, you should be able to make great art with anything.
Nah bro , AI will never replace human art
@@DizajnirajProfit That's a presumption of yours, however the truth is that it is already replacing human art. The problem with these tools lies in the fact that they scrape the internet for images created by humans to train their models on and are gaining in popularity -fast-. Wide adoption of these tools is cost and labour effective, thus virtually inevitable, resulting in less original art of human origin available on the internet and causing the next iteration of such a model to train on images generated largely by itself. This leads to increasingly lower quality art, that doesn't progress in terms of creativity and originality. Will human art then finally be reintroduced into society when AI generated art has muddled the pool but as a niche? Possible, but in the long run with massive job losses initially, and since AI poses real existential threats, we should be asking ourselves the question if there will be a humanity left to enjoy art at all. #NoGenerativeAI #AIDangers #StayAwake #SayNoToArtificialIntelligence
great work, friendly thought, I think the voice is too familiar, doesn't have the same effect as the video, maybe someone with a deeper voice, like you said close your eyes and listen to the voice like listening to the sound
It’s familiar now, but it wasn’t when it was initially made. We’ve been using Eleven Labs since day one, and now it’s become insanely popular. Haha. We might do another one in the future to show people what can be done now since things have evolved so much. Glad you liked the video!
Very good job!
I came here thinking all you did was to give the AI a few prompts and viola! The "Insane" promo was generated. All of this is *your* hard work for which you used AI.
and computers, trained with other peoples visual art
@@pocksuppet4415 All artists are trained with other people’s visual art. It’s called learning.
Thank you for the kind words! It is true that people tend to assume that because AI was a tool utilized in the making of something, that it automatically means that somehow there was very little human involvement. But like all art, regardless of what tools you use, you can be as involved, or uninvolved in the process as you’d like. We prefer the former.
@@FILMCRUX absolutely. We see farther standing on the shoulders of those who stood on shoulders of those who saw as far as they could.
@@RicoVibes21 Couldn’t agree more. Well said.
🎉 thanks so much for this amazing teachingss
No problem! Hope they help, and if you have any questions, let us know.
@@FILMCRUX my question is i wanna start creating AI videos
@@Imma911 No problem. That’s not exactly a question, but are you asking how to get started?
@@FILMCRUX I'm sorry Yeah i want to start
@@Imma911 No worries! Great places to start are Runway, Pika Labs, Midjourney and LensGo. They’re surprisingly easy to learn just by playing around with them.
Great work. I'm curious about how you guys did the animated parts of the static images...
Thank you! Here’s what we wrote to another commenter asking about that: A few ways. One was that we used LeiaPix to add 3D motion to still images. Then we also used After Effects for compositing. This allowed us to drop 2D VFX assets like the dinosaur or fog right into the shots. Then finally we used Element 3D inside After Effects to animate 3D objects like the spaceship using keyframes. Those were the three main techniques. If you want to see more in depth of how we animate our space scenes, you can check out this tutorial here. Hope it helps! kzhead.info/sun/o7uiaLmFp5WCp4U/bejne.htmlsi=-ByMOhJJDBErVJCA
@@FILMCRUX awesome thank you! I’ll check that out.
@@ricardomiranda7737 No problem! Let us know if you have any other questions!
@@FILMCRUX actually, do you guys have any creative or development consulting services…and please forward an email. Thank you.
Do you have an email and also, do you guys provide creative development support services...@@FILMCRUX
The only thing that lets it down for me is the choice of voice for narrator, i hear this voice on a ton of AI shorts ...i would of personally gone for a older gravely voice or even dropped the adam voice a couple of octaves....great trailer tho !!
Thank you! It’s a really common voice now, but we think it perfectly encapsulates the retro sci-fi TV vibe and aesthetic we were going for. We’ll do more in the future though in different styles.
I did not understand where was the music coming from appart the inspirations, AI made or not ?
The music was all created by me for the project. We wanted a specific style that would have been hard to get with AI, but we may do another in the future with AI music as well. - Lion
cool
Much appreciated!
can't believe you guys have just 800 likes in 3 month for that, with 42K views .... your work is amazing
Much appreciated Adrien! Glad to see it’s getting a bit more traction now. Hope it’s helpful!
@@FILMCRUX I'm literally using your video as a step by step guide as I'm making a small video myself. 💘
@@adrienbiosseduplan9666 That’s awesome! Do you want to send it our way to check it out when you’re done?
I will ! @@FILMCRUX
Great video. What about those who don't have "Adobe After Effects " any suggestions?
Sure. Which technique are you trying to do so we can give you some potential alternative ways of achieving it?
Were you using capcut pro or free version? Very inspiring.
We use the pro version of CapCut, which is inexpensive so we think it’s definitely worth the upgrade, but you can do basically anything in the free version of CapCut too. Thank you for the kind words by the way!
Starfield could have used spacesuit designs like 2:20 so cool. Starfield could have used so many designs like this
Much appreciated! We actually love that design. Glad to hear you feel the same.
The process of setting up the story. That’s the tricky part
Yeah. That is tricky.
Thank you. I just Subscribed
Much appreciated! Thank you!
I would like if SYFY use it to make the ending for movies like dark matter or dominion, like they have so many movies they never ended
What do you mean they never ended? Are those films made to be trilogies?
@@FILMCRUX yes Syfy canceled the series like in dark matter 2015 last season aliens come from the portal and movie ends like that, now I don't even know if AI could even get closed to the master piece but we deserve an ending, there are so many tv seriesd like Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles some one tryed and did an animated for the last season😁
@@KEEVVY That's interesting. No idea if they'll do that, but it's definitely possible.
It's genuinely terrifying how companies will just replace vfx artists for this technology.
I think its pretty cool, VFX artist didn't used to exist, to think they would last forever would be foolish. Very few jobs stand the test of time.
@@Pharaohjudah Very stupid logic. AI is trained on other’s work. The only reason it looks good is because it takes other people’s stuff.
@@tright6 Humans learn from looking at the work of other people too. Did you learn how to do VFX without ever seeing a single VFX shot in a movie or show?
If you can just be replaced with this, then you weren’t very valuable to begin with. If you have vision, and skills that are not easily replaceable by a computer, then you’re in no danger of losing out on money. In fact, these tools should help you make more money than ever before.
@@FILMCRUX Yeah no, those are two different things. One is a person choosing what they like and inspiring themselves off of that, AI is an algorithm designed to associate keywords and find patterns, which is why most AI generated artwork generally follows what's most popular unless the prompts are messed with.
Hey brother I want to know how I can get same charcter but from different scenes I mean if I want to make MOIVE then I need to make it with same charcter but ai gives different images please reply
There are techniques to get consistent characters, and there are even tools like Runway and soon Sora that will allow for consistent characters right in video generations. Midjourney is working on methods for this as well as we speak, so search “consistent characters Midjourney” on KZhead and you’ll see lots of different methods, including what works best for that at the moment.
Hi, this video is awesome 🤩 it actually gave me an idea of how i can make my next video. I can use some of the AI tools used in this video. Btw, I have a question. Do you know any AI which can change the expression of a character in a photo ? Like a boy is crying and is trying to wipe his tears away. I am asking for an anime image. If you know, please let me know. It will help me a lot.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Much appreciated. You can probably change expressions using Adobe Photoshop Generative Fill, but we don’t know of a tool specifically for expressions. We may have to look into that. That’s an excellent idea.
@@FILMCRUX Thanks for the suggestion. I will try out the tool you have suggested.
@@AMVBURPS No problem. Let us know if that helps!
Great work and Ideea .I would like to see this project as a cinema movie .it would be a wondefull movie
Thank you! That’s the plan! Appreciate the kind words.
Yes, looking forward to seeing the final work!
@@eastudio-K Glad to hear that. We have big plans for the property beyond this little experiment.
here's a real challenge. make a episode or movie.
We will. This is just a challenge to see what we can create using AI for every shot, to test what can be done with the current state of AI. We have full TV series and movies planned though.
@@FILMCRUX nice! The world needs a new space western. It's been a while since one was made.
@@johnny_hammer We’re big fans of space westerns! Although, this is a bit more space opera than space western, but it has elements from both subgenres.
pls a detailed video of this
Like a tutorial on how we achieved the specific effects?
How did you do motion?
I used some of the tools in the video like LeiaPix. I also just keyframed things inside After Effects, or used VFX assets that already had motion and composited them into the shots. Is there anything specific you wanted to know how I did? - Lion
Did you upscaled all the images?
Yes, we upscaled all the images using PixelCut. Hope that helps!
We want detailed process of creating a thing like this but you didn't mentioned where you got your sfx from.
The vast majority of our SFX are from our SINGULARITY Cinematic Sound Effects Library. www.filmcrux.com/store/p/singularity Hope that helps!
Impressive AI
It really is, and these AI tools have gotten a lot more amazing since we made this, which is pretty incredible.
Excellent instructions for visualizing ideas, especially people who dream of things like this.✨ The Future is Now. Unless....
Thank you so, so much! Really hope this helps.
So how long it took & how expansive? Also when an AI will be able to do all of this at once?...
It took a few weeks with a single person and no budget. AI can already do far better than this because it’s evolved so much in a short time. Within the year we’re likely to see full AI films using a single tool like Runway.
First of all I admit this is cool! and there IS a lot of creative work, problem solving and experimentation happening here... all in all nice work. Still can't help but wonder what happens when the tech matures enough to do all this and more form 1 single prompt? I predict it won't take that long either before Ai video and chat gpt fuse and an entire film gets fully generated without further human intervention...that's my worse fear out of this "innovative tech"... complete replacement... I hope my prediction is wrong... but 10 years ago most ppl would not have believed me if I told them generative ai image generators were coming... as a professional concept artist working in the industry the possibility of such future for film is super depressing :( Ideally we do find a healthy balance to regulate this fascinating tech to stay A TOOL for artists and augment and enhance our human abilities rather then fully replace them. Atm Concept art is still safe... we need to problem solve design solutions, functionality and spatial issues. We are designers more then painters. painting is part of it. But the job is more then just the "pretty picture" as we like to say... Still my heart does feel it for Illustrators:( the illustration part of concept art IS the most fun part of my job. I will continue to do it without ai for as long as I can. with that said I do find LLMs fascinating. I'm experimenting with chat gpt to help me with code for a solo 2d indie game.
Glad you liked the piece! Thank you! As for your concern, think about it this way. There is a robot that can shoot a basketball into a hoop and make it every time, but people don’t pay to watch it play. They pay to watch humans play. Chess AI beat the greatest chess player on Earth over three decades ago, but people don’t watch two chess AI duel it out, because one of the main things we like in life, is that a human did something. That’s often the very thing that makes it impressive. Handmade shoes can go for a hundred times the cost of regular shoes, because we like that a human made it. So while the future you’re talking about will inevitably exist, in which an entire movie can be generated with the click of a button (or more likely, by speaking a few words), the future will also be filled with lots and lots of human-made things, and unique voices and work from more artists than ever before in history.
@@FILMCRUX We wont see the robot, its will be behind the scenes. Ai film will show up and people may not care if its unseen. I grant that many people love DJs and they are still around.
@@mokiloke It’s certainly true that it will be behind the scenes for filmmaking in most ways, and people will definitely watch AI films. There’s no doubt about it, but there is a strong appreciation among humans of seeing other humans do amazing things. It’s almost intrinsic within our evolution.