Week 3 of my Open Source Generative Video class (Wan2.2 Animate was released after Week 1!)

Open Source Generative Video Week 2 recordings

I'm sharing the first tutorial from my Open Source Generative Video in ComfyUI class on YouTube. The rest will be paywalled for class participants for the next few months. I'm still accepting new sign ups for the rest of the week if you're interested (link in next post) youtu.be/YnMbuaLG9tc

I made a new film today. Its too long to post on Bluesky :( (its only 3min). You can watch it on Vimeo. Its a single long take set to music by Matthew Dear. vimeo.com/bustbright/d...

I shot like an hour of footage all like this this weekend. Enjoying shooting on the OG Blackmagic Pocket again, but god color grading is so annoying.

My film • is streaming all month as a part of Labocine's Mindfulness issue www.labocine.com/issues/mindf...

I have a new animated video dropping tomorrow. It’s been simmering for about 6 months and uses some crazy new techniques I’ve been experimenting with. It’s dedicated to my grandmother who passed away 3 weeks ago ❤️

New one for my friends at Grá

Trained a Flux Kontext model on my 16mm handmade frames. Input is now simple shapes, output will ~match my analog work.

I'm teaching a 5-week course on generative video in ComfyUI! I'll be sharing a bunch of tips and deep cuts I learned while generating 10 hours of footage for Ho Tzu Nyen's Phantoms of Endless Day www.bustbright.com/product/open...

I'm teaching a class on open source generative video using ComfyUI! Its 5 weeks and starts in July. You can choose a live class with more Q&A options with me, or an async class with recordings and a Slack channel. I hope to see some of you there! www.bustbright.com/product/open...

I'm teaching another session of Mattes and Double Exposures at Mono No Aware in July. All proceeds go to the family of Tomonari Nishikawa after his recent passing. Taught this a few weeks ago and people really loved it. That session sold out fast! mononoawarefilm.com/2025-july-ma...

People still on my Patreon are real ride or dies (or never check their bank statement), but I did just send them early access to all of the recordings from my Stop Motion AI class: www.patreon.com/posts/member...

Some weird Art Deco flower patterns made using the AdvancedRefluxControl nodes in ComfyUI

Controlling custom AI video model (bottom) with VJ loops (top)

I keep finding little chunks of film spread throughout my apartment 🙈

That twitter server bill is tied to Musk's Tesla stock huh

oh hes gonna default and crash out isnt he?

some news! i am on the hunt for a new literary agent and would love to chat if you are one and specialize in pop culture/non-fiction/music books. my book nora ephron at the movies just came out in october + is a usa today bestseller. i'd love to chat! my email: [email protected]

New one for my friends at Grá (best pizza spot in eastside LA)

Training custom Video LoRAs. Generation times are terrible but this is fun.

Hunyuan LoRA training on a Colab A100 😅

first R3GAN training. 256px, took like 4 days on a single L4 so its still not ideal

Put up a bunch of still from my #bbvday2022 film on Rodeo today to celebrate Valentines Day 😘 rodeo.club/@dvsch/posts

You can tell from the Musk and DOGE account how reliant they are on LLMs, and how incurious they are about any wild hallucinations the LLM gives them. Just like completely obvious incorrect facts that they turn into propaganda

I'm looking to interview some AI artists who use a number of different AI platforms about their experiences with these tools. User research for my job at Titles.xyz. DM me if you'd be interested in chatting!

its really annoying that the only ffmpeg features that are cuda gpu supported are transcoding and resizing

Looking forward to a fun movie double feature with @lanikaps.bsky.social this Valentine’s Day weekend. She’s presenting When Harry Met Sally at Film Forum and then I’m taking her to Wild At Heart at Metrograph the next day. Nora Wife, Lynch Husband.

I can't wait for a worse version of robocalls. If Congress is around in the next year I hope they can write some legislation against this.

One Punch

Ok maybe there are some cases where the death penalty is acceptable. What the fuck is wrong with people?

Cat, Sushi, Tail. Made this messing around with Deforum Studio with my class tonight.

I bought a water distiller this week to make my own distilled water for my photo chemicals. After seeing all the crap that gets distilled out after only one gallon I might be near a JFK Jr mental collapse

if you're on Karagarga, please consider freeleeching my Scream Scenes series. Would love to have it backed up a bit more. (And watch them if you like!)

And here I was told that China stealing my data was the thing to worry about the most. Seems like a South African is doing a lot more damage.

Video for one of my clients (background for their social media posts). Minimax->Sora loop->After effects color grading

This doesn’t seem stupid so much as every CEO cares more about their next quarterly earnings call than anything a year from now. America has created the most short sighted elites imaginable.

Some bleached film frames.

Making airline safety unsafe again! What a great country we live in.

While prepping for my Stop Motion AI class, I realized I've been doing stuff like this for 5+ years now. Did this in the OG Runway app using BigBiGAN.

What Vision/Multimodal LLMs support multiple images? (i.e. I want to provide 10-20 images and get an "average caption"). Claude and Gemini only support one image I think? ChatGPT is my go to. DeepSeek-VL seems to have problems with multi-image support (limited testing)

why does RFK Jr look like this

not a great first experience with genmotionai

just wasting Dream Machine credits and asking it to generate random noise for me I guess

Not to be a treatlerite but the Bagel Shop burned by bagels and I think thats a bridge too far. Could have sent me the wrong flavor and I wouldn't have cared, but burn it? Come on.

One thing worth discussing when we talk about Deepseek/any Chinese AI models is they have a much different concept of "copyright" that basically means they train on everything without even a thought about repercussions. American companies at least have to have lawyers on retainer.

Useless party

And we wonder why women don’t come forward more often.