The problem
Explaining how pictures move is hard to do in text. Allan wanted to know if an AI production system, with a person approving each step, could make a whole narrated film that holds up.
What I built
A five stage pipeline (script, voice, storyboard, scenes, render) with a check and a log at each gate. Its first film asks "How do you make a picture move?" and flies a paper plane through shadow puppets, ink, print, TV, games and 3D.
What it changed
The film (9 minutes 31 seconds) was approved and published on YouTube. A making-of film and eight short "behind the behind" episodes show how it was made and what went wrong. They form a free course on this site.
How do you make a picture move? A paper plane through 25 art styles
Behind the paper plane: the system that made a 25-style animated film
Thirteen messages: how little I wrote before an AI made a 12-minute film (Behind the behind, episode 1)
The AI checks its own art: never with the eyes that made it (Behind the behind, episode 2)
Ghosts in the machine: the strange mistakes an AI makes (Behind the behind, episode 3)
The night the AI got cut off: how the work carried on (Behind the behind, episode 4)