Adam Norton

AI filmmaker and creative director. Founder of Parallax Black. Building cinematic, human-directed AI video workflows.

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I have officially been welcomed into the Dreamina Creative Partner Program. I am powered up and ready to create something impossible. @dreamina_ai #DreaminaCPP

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@adam_lamotte Thanks for watching. Unappreciated you taking the time to support me and my art.

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I finished a new AI-assisted animated short, using Midjourney, GPT Image 2, and Seedance 2.0:

Abuelita Knows Best - Episode 01: "Eat, Mijo!"

The premise: nobody leaves Abuelita’s sight on an empty stomach. Not even an unsuspecting stranger.

This started as a short-form character comedy test, but the real goal was to push a complete AI-assisted production workflow: character design, storyboards, shot planning, animation, editing, sound, title treatment, and final delivery.

The part I’m most interested in is not just generating clips.

It’s whether AI can help independent creators build finished, repeatable, character-driven animated shorts with actual direction behind them.

One thing I’m learning quickly: the more AI video improves, the more traditional directing skills still matter.

Premise, timing, staging, continuity, performance, sound, and editing are what make the output feel like a short, not just a generated clip.

Character Sheets and Storyboards below.

Let me know what you think.

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@AIandDesign https://t.co/WP37YEFn6c

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@FutureVibesAi https://t.co/WP37YEFn6c

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@mexopolis Ai is not part of the future of animation and film industry. It’s the present. It is actively being used by most studios now. And it’s not going anywhere.

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@lorenzodoteth Love this.

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I disagree. Having access to the tools doesn’t make you an artist. Human direction, taste, and discernment are still needed. This is why all the best AI content is made by the same people. And your aunt and neighbors kid make slop. It still takes skill and talent to make something compelling that people actually enjoy watching. It’s just the new toolset.

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Mine tend to take about 30 mins. However, it seems to be the same whether I do 1 at a time, or two at a time. So I always generate two of them close together. It’s frustrating, but for now it’s the only way I can afford to use Seedance 2. I’m hoping Kling and Google will come out with an update that makes them compete soon, and maybe that would lower the cost. I hope.

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I made a 60-second cinematic trailer about the most dramatic commute of this man's life: getting to @aionthelot , a conference I'm attending in LA next week.

The brief was simple: make a short film about traveling to AI on the Lot, make the commute feel impossibly important, include Los Angeles, and end at the conference.

A lot of the entries I’ve seen lean into the big adventure-movie montage approach, which is great. I decided to go a different direction: treating the small, mundane frustrations of ordinary travel like they carry the weight of a life-or-death mission.

This is The Impossible Commute
Created by Adam Norton
For the AI on the Lot 2026 community challenge.

#aionthelot2026

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YouTube version up to 4k: https://t.co/DQaOjYdxMl

More of my AI-assisted film and creative production work: https://t.co/YXFvjraXbD

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Storyboards: Also generated in GPT Image 2.

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Character Sheets: Created in GPT Image 2.