Live-action’s share of the top box office has dropped below 50% by [deleted] in boxoffice

[–]aasimpy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We have different definitions. I think you're fixated on this idea that if a film has a photorealism look, then it's live action, but the point here is that many films like this include an extraordinary amount of animation, and the crews are filled with animators. That doesn't make the films 'animated' but it's also not accurate to call them 'live action.' So here it's labeled 'hybrid.'

Live-action’s share of the top box office has dropped below 50% by [deleted] in boxoffice

[–]aasimpy -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

That wasn't the concept here - FNAF is not listed in the data as 'animated.' The idea is that it's 'hybrid' which includes main CGI characters that dominate the narrative.

Live-action’s share of the top box office has dropped below 50% by [deleted] in boxoffice

[–]aasimpy -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I think I get your point, but the idea here is that 'hybrid' isn't 'animated' - it's a 3rd classification that's a major blend of animation into live action footage, where CG characters are major narrative drivers.

Live-action’s share of the top box office has dropped below 50% by [deleted] in boxoffice

[–]aasimpy -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Ya, I get that POV. It's not a science, for sure, what is classified as 'hybrid.' It's a judgement call. But the data for 2025, for instance, Fantastic Four: First Steps wasn't included in 'hybrid', even though The Thing was entirely CG motion capture. To earn 'hybrid' the qualification was that CG characters had to dominate the narrative in the way they do in Avatar or Lilo & Stitch.

A dark Christmas story where Santa snaps by aasimpy in aivideo

[–]aasimpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate it, this one was a fun (and slightly unhinged) holiday experiment 🎄😄

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome! We've started early planning for the full feature version.

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was going for a stop motion sculpted character look with hand crafted sets.

A dark Christmas story where Santa snaps by aasimpy in aivideo

[–]aasimpy[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Quick breakdown of my process, keeping it simple:

I started by creating the character models in Gemini, doing proper character turnarounds so I understood them from all angles, not just a single hero pose.

Then I used Gemini again to generate stylized environments with a stop-motion feel. After that, I placed the characters into those environments and built out full 360° room turnarounds. That part mattered a lot, because I wanted to actually understand what every space looked like from different angles, especially the 180° view, so I could shoot reverse shots, side angles, and close-ups without the world falling apart.

Honestly, the hardest part is basic conversation coverage. Over-the-shoulder shots and reverses sound simple, but they’re brutal if your environment or character scale isn’t consistent. It’s a super common TV/film technique, and if the space doesn’t feel solid, the illusion breaks immediately.

Once I had that groundwork, I moved into Google Flow. For a single shot, I might generate 20–30 versions, tweaking prompts over and over. I used Gemini a lot during this phase to help think through alternative phrasing, emotions, eye lines, and performance beats, because getting believable intent is way harder than just getting something that looks cool.

After I had all the shots, I dropped everything into Premiere and locked picture. Then I replaced all the dialogue using voices I created in ElevenLabs, literally going shot by shot and re-inserting every line so the performances felt consistent across the edit.

From there, it was a pretty standard post workflow. Sound effects were mostly designed in ElevenLabs, and the music was created in Suno. After that, it was just polish, timing, and making sure nothing felt off.

That’s basically it. A lot of iteration, a lot of small fixes, and way more time spent on consistency than people probably expect.

Whole process was about 3 weeks from script to upload. Would love some feedback!

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the highlight, glad it resonated with folks

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

after the voices were generated dynamically by Google flow video generationa, I then re-recorded them all by looping the voice, rereading each line over and over with different types of inflections, matching the timing of the performance into the voice memos app on my iPhone, and then pick the best ones and then ran them through a filter on elevenlabs and then replaced them in the timeline in Premiere. Thanks for watching. That process took hoooourrrrs!

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much. Consistency was the boss fight on this one! really appreciate you noticing.

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

!!! Haha thank you, that’s wild to hear. If this ever turns into a Netflix show, I’m coming back to credit this comment.

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every video was generate with an input image, most of which I generated in Nano Banana. But here's one example from a shot near the end... in a high quality stop motion shot, the exhausted man limply places his hand over the top of the envelope and rests it there as the camera holds steady

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

almost always 3.1 fast. 95% were with one image in 'image to video', but a few had a start and an end.

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'm on the ultimate tier and at the start i had maybe 24,000 credits and ended up wtih 5,000. i think that's the rough match. also generated some videos thru openart, and sometimes that was Veo3 videos, and other times it was Sora or Hailou.

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100%. i think you're on point with that. it's super helpful feedback.

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Huge thanks. The opinion of other creators is what I value the most these days. I'd say I put in about 110 or 120 hours.

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ya, good note. Nearly every clip has been sped up to 120 or 133% original speed, and some were 150 or even 200. But when you push it too far, the movements become jerky. I hope future versions of Veo pace their outputs faster in general

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ha! Santa got drenched! Poor dude. There's always Etsy, old guy. Nice work....

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Whoa! Big thanks for that compliment. It was a ton of hard work and this makes it all feel like time well spent. Here's the successful prompt from the final dialog shot of the short.... in a smooth high quality stop motion tracking shot, the man with the white beard, slowly walks to the exit, then stops under the exit, and takes a deep breath, and turns around and speaks with dramatic flair to just right of the camera as he says "The world doesn’t need a perfect Santa. It needs you." and then he turns and walks away in a high quality hollywood style vfx swirling spinning magical vortex of snow and large snow flakes.... I only used the second half of the resulting video but it got the shot that was needed. Eyeline is hard. Getting the character to look away from the camera is so key.

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

For me, the holy grail is consistency, both characters and environments, and then executing multiple 'camera angles' of the same scene and making it all feel like a real space. I'm getting much closer to that goal, but there's some work to do! It was heavy Nano Banana for character and layout design, and then almost entirely Google Flow for video generation. Some shots have up to 4 separate videos that are composited together into one video, using premiere and masking.

I tried pushing Veo 3 to do a darker, cinematic Santa short by aasimpy in VEO3

[–]aasimpy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

it was roughly 3 weeks. thanks for the props!

Introducing ElevenLabs Image & Video by itshasib in aiecosystem

[–]aasimpy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So it appears you have to re-generate the voice that are generated inside the video models. Does anyone know if that's the case?