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From Script to Episode: The AI Micro-Drama Production Workflow
To turn a script into shippable episodes with an ai movie maker from script, load the full script into a creative producer agent inside invideo so it holds s…
What It Costs to Produce an AI Micro-Drama Season
A traditional micro-drama season runs $150,000–$300,000. Produced with an AI movie maker — the invideo agent running the whole pipeline — a documented 10-epi…
Is rotoscoping AI now?
No — rotoscoping is not AI by definition. Rotoscoping is a technique: isolating a subject from its background by drawing masks around it, frame by frame. AI…
AI rotoscoping: how AI masks, mattes, and isolates subjects in 2026
TL;DR — what AI rotoscoping does
Free AI Short Film Generator: What Actually Exists and What Doesn't
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AI Filmmaking Tools: The Stack Documented Productions Actually Use
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AI Video Post-Production: Making AI Footage Look Like Real Film
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Pika AI Video Generator: What It Does and Where It Fits
Pika AI is Pika Labs' AI video generator — a text-to-video and image-to-video model strongest on stylized short clips and playful, exaggerated motion. It is…
Hailuo AI Video Generator: What It Is, Pricing, and When to Use It
Hailuo AI is MiniMax's video generation model, best known for smooth, physically plausible motion and strong image-to-video handling. It fills a specific nic…
Luma Dream Machine: What It Is, Pricing and Where It Fits in an AI Video Stack
Luma Dream Machine — currently running on Luma's Ray 3 model — is an AI video generator whose core strength is motion: fluid, dynamic image-to-video shots an…
Wan AI Video Generator: What Wan 2.2 Does and Where It Fits
Wan AI — currently at version Wan 2.2 — is an AI video model line built for strong image-to-video handling and efficient short-clip generation. It doesn't ou…
Kling AI Video Generator: What It Does, Pricing, and Where It Wins
Kling AI — currently Kling 3.0 — is a Chinese-developed AI video generation model whose differentiator is native multi-shot sequences: one generation can con…
Showrunner + Director Agent Hierarchy for AI Microdrama Series
An AI drama series runs on a two-tier agent crew: one showrunner agent holds the show bible — tone, characters, world rules, canon — and a separate director…
Runway Gen-4: Capabilities, Pricing and Where It Fits
Runway Gen-4 is Runway's flagship AI video generation model, strongest at image-to-video and stylized cinematic shots: give it a reference frame and it anima…
Generating Vertical Shots for AI Micro-Drama
Vertical AI micro-drama shots come out right when you prompt in 9:16 from the first line, compose for a phone screen — face in the top third, negative space…
Writing Hooks and Cliffhangers for AI Micro-Drama
Every micro-drama episode is a 60–120 second AI short film with one structural rule: open on a 3-second hook — a face, a shock line, a mid-action reveal — an…
How Many Episodes Should an AI Micro-Drama Season Have?
A full AI micro-drama season typically runs 60–100 episodes because per-episode unlock economics only pay at scale — revenue accrues one unlocked episode at…
AI VFX: how AI visual effects actually work in filmmaking (2026 guide)
TL;DR — what AI VFX is and how it differs from CGI
AI video effects: adding energy, atmosphere, and elements to shots
TL;DR — how AI video effects actually work
Is CGI AI? The honest answer
No — CGI is not AI. CGI (computer-generated imagery) is deterministic 3D rendering: artists model geometry, apply materials, and a render engine computes eac…
How Many AI Ads Can a Team Realistically Ship Per Day?
A two-person team ships 4–5 AI UGC ads per 8-hour day at ~$125 each, 12 product-swap variants at ~$30 each, or 6 market localizations after the first is lock…
How Long Does AI Ad Localization Take Per Market?
The first AI ad localization into a new market takes ~2 hours at ~$145 and 570 credits. Every additional market ships in ~1 hour because the invideo agent al…
AI Video Ads vs a Traditional Agency: Cost, Speed, and Control
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AI UGC Ads vs Hiring Creators: The Cost and Speed Math
AI UGC ads run about $125 each, with a two-person team shipping 4–5 finished ads in an 8-hour day after a one-time brand-context setup. Hiring human UGC crea…