Let me be precise about this,
because the word matters to me.
I didn't animate this film.
I wrote it, designed the character,
directed every shot, generated the footage
with AI tools, and cut and scored the result.
That's producing and directing.
It isn't animation,
and I'm not going to call it that.

I'm an animation professor with over
twenty-five years of instructing classes
in art and animation, so I know the difference.
I also think the difference is the whole point.

Getting one good five-second clip
out of an AI model is easy.
Getting forty of them to hold together as a film — the same character, the same world, cuts that don't fall apart — is where almost everybody stops. That part isn't a prompting problem.

It's a filmmaking problem, and the tools don't solve it for you.

I'm putting together a course on creating and directing your own short film. Not prompt tricks, and not a tour of whichever AI model is winning this month.
The part nobody teaches: filmmaking; storytelling, shot choice, and knowing when a shot is good enough to keep and when to throw it out, and actually finishing a film, all as one person, an independent filmmaker.

If that's something you're interested in,
leave your email. I'll tell you when it's ready, and I'll send what I work out along the way.

-Brad Bradbury