AI Gave the Solo Creator a Studio. The Studio Is Rented. (opens in new tab)

It is now possible, with the toolchain available to a single person on a normal laptop, to produce work that ten years ago would have required a team. The work is not toy work. Films are coming out — short-form, mostly, but real films — assembled by individuals using language models for scripts, image generators for keyframes, video models for motion, audio models for sound, and a small amount of glue code to push the artifacts through Blender and a non-linear editor. Visual systems, generati...