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Blog, techniques and lessons from the projects on this site.

Stop Paying for Expensive Retries

Eight habits that cut my Seedance 2.5 credits per finished minute by 27%, with the real character sheets, a full shot prompt and the clip it produced.

10 November 2026·10 min readRead →

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BALI: How I Made a 5-Minute AI Folk-Horror Film

How I kept a cast, and a whole line of undead kings, looking like themselves across a five-minute AI film: casting sheets, reference maps, shot briefs and what I'd change next time.

5 November 2026·16 min readRead →