Quicksand Fans

I am both experimenting with generating video as well as still images, with my interest leaning toward the former. My only issue is that video cost a lot more to create, but a lot more fun ( and often frustrating too!).

Most of my practice sessions use copyright material as a seed, including a few from MPV. Those will never see public eye but I do have a few that use ai generated characters. These for example.

A young woman entrapped by a stylized tar monster


A woman running down a forest path runs into a spider web and becomes entangled in the sticky web strands. I made this one by shooting several related scenes and then piecing them together in a movie maker program.


Dunno how far this will go but I'm having fun either way.

very good! love the Tar Monster, but the spider is a bit too realistic for my phobia!

Let's give this another try:

looks like Baywatch!

I'm having a lot of fun with this but it may be getting too expensive for me. I've spent a few hundred dollars making videos in only 3 weeks.

You have to buy "Credits" or points to create. They give everyone 150 credits daily for free, and with my $80 a year subscription I get 700 points daily for free AND I can create still images for free. More credits can be bought of course.

But while a high quality image can cost 10 to 40 points a video is 600-1200 points to render and it can take up to a dozen tries making modifications to the prompt text to get a single usable video clip, so credits for video creations burn off fast!. Some of my movies may take up to a dozen separate clips/scenes edited together to complete. NOT cheap!

Price menu for credits



I may just have to cut back and just do this on occasion. I live on a tight budget these days so I need to do something. I have to confess that it is very addicting so warning to ya.

Here's a few efforts. I've done some shorter scenes too I will up later.



An odd one. A life-size A.I.-controlled Barbie doll bought online delivering itself to a new customer (convenient for shippers!) Unfortunately the A.I. was never programed to recognize and avoid quicksand!




I was happy with this one but it took dozens of renders to do. A prehistoric woman fleeing a small raptor stumbles into a tar pit.




As usual I hope you all enjoy.

I can see how AI videos could very quickly become expensive! Good work on the Barbie and the tarpit videos.

I will easily second the experience of paying a lot for AI. I use several different AI platforms to produce my work. I normally go for the top tier and annual subscriptions to cut down on overall cost at the expense of up-front cost, but you don't get much wriggle room for experimentation. My rate is approximately $1 for a 10s generation, but given that only 50% might be usable, and given a generous failure rate of 1 in 3 attempts, I pitch the budget to be $5 for 10 seconds of footage.

Using some simple tricks learned from experience and effective prompting, I can reduce the failure rate and salvage more from bad outputs, but one of my 5 minute videos can easily be over $50 alone with a GOOD run of outputs.

I've offset that cost by opening up subscriptions and commissions on DA, which is actually doing a lot to mitigate the cost, but not many people will be attracted to such a niche interest with high cost of production for individual scenes.

lots of drama with the Cave Woman!

MadMax359 wrote:lots of drama with the Cave Woman!

Thank you. BTW I want to give proper credit, so:


Original art by aiartdump used as my starting point. It too was AI generated, just not by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/aiartdump/ar ... -980372628

BogDog wrote:

MadMax359 wrote:lots of drama with the Cave Woman!

Thank you. BTW I want to give proper credit, so:


Original art by aiartdump used as my starting point. It too was AI generated, just not by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/aiartdump/ar ... -980372628

Did you have permission to use the original image as a source?