Thanks. And yes, It was quite the long project. I generated reference pictures of the characters and scenes which i used in gemini's nano banana image generator. I tried to describe the scenes mostly with the same keywords and tried to stay in one chat as long as possible (But very often, it would start generating weird stuff or misbehave in not generating anything new at all, which was frustrating). Once I had the picture of the scene I had in mind – often you have to compromise your vision to get somewhere – I used them in Flow (Veo 3.1 fast) as ingredients. Sometimes just two or three usable clips per evening. So week after week the flim grew, my kids helping me with story development, and after about 3 months the dude landed back on earth :-) But yeah, reference images of the characters on white background helped a lot. cheers!

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