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In this quick tutorial, Caleb shows you how to strip the music out of any clip using SAM Audio, Meta’s free sound isolation tool. That way, you get clean sound effects and can add your own music in your editor. It works on regular footage too, not just AI clips. Check. outa full…

The full AI filmmaking workflow behind Planet Hell: Seedance 2.5 on OpenArt, driven over MCP by Claude Code and Codex, Gemini 4 Argon as story editor and colorist in DaVinci Resolve, and After Effects for the fixes the AI couldn't make. A few days ago I released Planet Hell, the…

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to create a studio from anywhere in the world. All you need is audio, reference video, and you are good to go. This workflow is the future of video production. Check out the full breakdown here…

In this video of ComfyUI Nodes Explained, you will learn how ComfyUI sets the size of your image: what the empty latent is, how width and height work, why the same seed gives a new image at a new size, why a bigger image is not always better, why 1080 becomes 1088, how aspect…

AI and vibe coding have changed game development forever. Every second game on Steam is now created with AI. And Itch.io has made a big move to remove AI Spam Games. Claude has limited the use of web coding for games. So what does all of that mean for the future of video games…

In this episode, we test MiniMax H3 in ComfyUI with 25 free workflows, plus 2 bonus workflows. H3 is a video model that makes video with sound, from your images, videos and audio. We test them all, and see what H3 does well and where it struggles. Part 1, change your video: a…

PLANET HELL is an AI Sci-FI Short Film expanding on the original AI Film trailer made in Veo-3.1 This is an ongoing series about a prison planet where every inmate gets one bullet. This latest film was made with Seedance 2.5, GPT Image 2 and 2.5, Nano Banana and Midjourney, and…

In this video, we'll share a new workflow for relighting your films that will change Filmmaking forever. The results are incredibly impressive. The workflow is simple, but there are a few things you can do to ensure the best quality possible! Check out a full breakdown here…

Your AI characters can now stand in your actual room, and react to what's in it! Simulon is back: turn a character image into a 3D "neural asset," place it in the real world through your phone's camera, act out the scene with your own camera move, and the app regenerates the…

We just wrapped our 4th annual AI Horror Film competition, and we are SHOOK. Not only are we terrified by the stories (all our judges are now sleeping with the lights on), but the quality of these films is mind-blowing. Once the premiere has finished, check out the winners here…

In this video of ComfyUI Nodes Explained, you will learn how ComfyUI reads your prompt: what CLIP Text Encode does, how positive and negative prompts work, why the negative prompt does nothing at CFG 1, what Conditioning Zero Out is for, how to write a prompt for new models, why…

A little "Inside Baseball" on the Chinese AI Video models, and while I don't normally cover International Business News, I thought this was pretty interesting. The Voltron of AI Video models, next year?

CozyClay 3.0: a free, open-source 3D previs tool built for AI video. One-click install through Pinokio; it runs in your browser and doesn't need a GPU. Full details in this video: https://youtu.be/qlSI_ZbRdEc

- Iron Goddess: an unclaimed AI video model that showed up in battle mode on the Arena this week. Big, fast, swing-for-the-fences motion; frame by frame, the fastest moments get smudgy. Seedance 2.5 holds together better, with less dynamic movement. - Who made it? Nobody has…

A free, open-source tool that gets you the exact shot before you generate, plus the fix for when 3D-guided AI video comes out stiff. And a secret AI video model just turned up in blind tests on the Arena, swinging big on motion. Also this week: Kling's reported IPO, Ideogram's…

In this video of ComfyUI Nodes Explained, you will learn what a model is, what the file names mean (bf16, fp8, int8, GGUF), where each file goes, and how to load it, with Load Checkpoint or with Load Diffusion Model, Load CLIP and Load VAE. Everything is shown with Z-Image…

Seedance faked a video game that doesn’t exist, so I had Claude Opus 5.5 rebuild it as a playable browser shader in 45 minutes, using gokaygokay’s video-to-shader skill. Then I pushed further: Claude wrote a new skill and rebuilt an AI-generated pirate cabin in Unreal Engine…

ByteDance's unreleased world model took a scene from Stephen Chow's King of Comedy and re-shot it from new camera angles off one drawn camera path, at a recent showcase event. More details on the World Model in this video: https://youtu.be/VTrc346ea30

Try AIQORA: https://aiqora.ai/empfehlung?ref=MATTVIDP Start free and get 10 extra credits with code MATTVIDPRO. This segment is sponsored by AIQORA, an AI video platform from Germany. I was out sick for five days and the AI world did not wait. Gemini 4 Argon is out, and it's…

In this video, we'll team up with Albert Bozesan to show you the best AI Camera control hack we have ever seen. Claude can not control Blender, and this makes a once-complicated software WAY easier to utilize in your pipeline. Explore a full breakdown of the tutorial…

ByteDance's new world model, Sora returns?, Krea 3 is here, OmniHuman 2.0 is back, Pico Space Pro, World Gacha, and LTX-2.5's new post tools. ByteDance's unreleased world model took a scene from Stephen Chow's King of Comedy and re-shot it from new camera angles off one drawn…

This is the first video of ComfyUI Nodes Explained, a series where I explain the ComfyUI nodes one by one. Before we look at any single node, this video covers the basics every beginner needs: what a node is, its inputs, outputs and settings, and what the wire colors mean. ⬇️⬇️…

Check out our full tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFsVW1DrLng&t=1s

In this video, we'll compare two popular AI character consistency methods to see which one actually works better for AI filmmaking. Check out the full written breakdown and prompts here: curiousrefuge.com/blog/how-to-create-pro-ai-character-sheets Check out our courses…

Here's one of my favorite hacks for saving credits while generating for your AI Film. Nowadays, you don;t have to fully commit, but there are a handful of workflows and processes you can set up so that you can ensure you don't waste tons of money on bad generations. Check out…

Out of Memory is a song about ComfyUI, for everyone who has watched the progress bar crawl to 99 percent and then seen the red box. The whole music video happens inside the real ComfyUI: real workflows, real runs with the live preview, real out of memory errors, real missing…

A 17-minute Backrooms short film, made by one person with AI. Javi Lopez, co-founder of Magnific, walks me through how he pulled it off, the "don't do handheld" lesson, and the thing no one tells you about making a film this long alone: form a band. This is the first of what…

AI coding agents can now mod almost any PC game you own, so I put DOOM inside Skyrim. SkyDoom is real Skyrim with all the NPCs, except Doom monsters spawn everywhere and I have a chaingun. Built with UniversalModder in about an hour, and I'll show you how to mash up any two…

In this tutorial, I'll share with you one of my favorite Free AI Tools. You can download it and run it locally on your Mac (woot!), or you can use Fal.ai. Using a depth map as a reference is a phenomenal way to ensure your AI videos have strong accuracy when changing…

In this video, we tested some of the LAtest AI tools to see how they are affecting sound design and the future of video production. We tested multiple workflows against a Curious Refuge member's work and came to a conclusion on the current state of AI sound design tools. Check…

Four is your lucky number today. Kling 4 is here — kinda. But, I ran it through the usual tests: text-to-video, image-to-video, Omni with Flamethrower Girl, a noir scene in Malloy's office, and my keyframes-plus-Omni trick. Then Google wakes up with Gemini 4 Argon (announced…

In this video, we test all of the top AI Creative Agents against the work from a real AI artist to see how AI holds up when compared to Human creativity. We also dive into some new AI Filmmaking tech that might begin to make AI Creative more obsolete in the near future. Check…

In this tutorial, we teamed up with our AI Animation Instructor, @albertbozesan to show you the latest AI workflow for combining 2D animation with live-action footage. Check out a full breakdown here: https://curiousrefuge.com/blog/the-best-ai-workflow-for-a-2d-live-action-film…

In this video, we let GPT Astra organize and edit a video including doing VFX, SFX, and producing marketing assets. Check out our tutorial for what worked and what didn’t. Check out the full written breakdown and prompts here…

Learn how to use MiniMax Fast H3 in ComfyUI with three video workflows: text to video, first frame to video, and first and last frame to video. I’ll show you how to set up the model, choose your video size and duration, create prompts with Google Gemini, and run each workflow…

In this video, we tested a hybrid filmmaking workflow that combines live-action footage with AI to transform simple greybox shots into entirely new environments. Check out the full written breakdown and prompts here…

In this video, we tested three different ways to create new camera angles with AI, and the results were pretty wild. Check out the full written breakdown and prompts here: https://curiousrefuge.com/blog/how-to-change-camera-angles-with-ai Check out our courses…

Running MiniMax H3 on your own computer at home is great, but generating higher resolution videos can take a while. Thankfully we have various upscale methods to help us! Using Ultimate Upscale, Latent Upscale 3D and SeedVR2 you can quickly generate your lower resolution (0.2…

World Labs Atlas is a new omni world model for spatial intelligence from Fei-Fei Li’s company. It generates, reconstructs, and simulates 3D worlds from text, images, video, and camera poses, not just flat clips. Atlas claims pixel-perfect camera control, up to 1 minute of 1440p…

Another ComfyUI workflow power-up to dive further into the world of extending pre-existing or freshly generated videos using the MiniMax H3 Reference conditioning nodes, testing Sparse Linear Attention (SLA) along with the new Lightx2v SLA LoRA and the PDD Acc LoRAs too…