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Experience Making a 1-minute AI movie with my 7-year old daughter


June 2025 - My daughter Kate really loves Minecraft! Together, we created a 1-minute animation based on only 1 input photo of her. [Read which AI tools we used and why](minecraft).

The open-weights generative AI community has fully embraced Alibaba’s Wan Video as a superior replacement for Hunyuan. VACE: powerful control of generated videos CausVid and its successor SelfForcing: incredible speed gains…and this is just the tip of the iceberg! As Black Forest Labs currently keeps the community waiting for the open weights of this model, the only way for me to use it was to pay for API access (one of the very few instances where I paid for closed-source AI rather than to do it locally).

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