Trying out free trial of video gen AI

If you want to try it, the trial allows for around 3 free generations currently on https://runwayml.com/

I saw an X post today that made my head spin: https://x.com/Markoslavnic/status/2052797538885902418

These aren’t great, but I had to give it a try. This video was with a single prompt and I gave it the first frame (in the style I use for AU thumbnails), and it cranked this out. I’m sure had I taken the time to optimize my prompt and ran it a few times I would have gotten some more decent outputs. However, I thought you guys would find this funny. This AI made the cuts and dialogue itself. The live-action video it gave me for the tests was great, and 3D animation was pretty strong too. It’ll be interesting to see where this goes.

Ironically, as making “professional looking” things becomes easier (not that I’m calling this professional), the ideas themselves become more and more valuable. Exciting times!

A few others I tried

3D animation - https://app.runwayml.com/creation/09425973-501c-463e-9dcd-7143e4b79956
Prompt: A pixar style 3D animation of three pigs in pirates outfits. They jump off their boat onto the dock, and all stand around a box that says "Do Not Touch". They have comedic back and forth dialogue until one of them touches the box, and immediately all three turn into piggy princesses.

Live Action - https://app.runwayml.com/creation/ae517123-74f9-4ab7-9da4-a03b72a57dae
Prompt: A young tribal girl, wearing a thick maroon cloak, walks through a dense frozen jungle, holding a torch with a neon green flame atop. The tree trunks around her are dark, purple, twisting, and filling the space of the jungle and at her feet are thick, holly leaves and bristles. Outside of the ring of torchlight, the jungle is pure black darkness. The green flame has two white blazing eyes and talks in a low, deep male voice.