hello_dave

Telling stories with AI animation and video.
Day job: AI training and consulting for higher education.

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The pilot assignment for Cartoon Hero 2.0 from @framer_x - adapted from Hopeless Steve to Samurai Steve.
Need to work on voice consistency, but wanted to save on an Eleven Labs sub.

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@Nicolascole77 social

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@NickDiFabio1 Ebook

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@Adam_DelDuca @threadreaderapp unroll please

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@Adam_DelDuca Go

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@grundstromleo Guide

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@curiousMazor @framer @pokas_io @framer_x Couldn't agree more! And love this interpretation of Fighter Joe - looks awesome

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@TheCinesthetic Gattaca - beyond doubt.

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Having great fun experimenting with @OiiOii_AI - here's an automatically produced character sheet, from a one image upload of my @HeroFightLeague character Karma Kong (thanks to @framer_x and @CartoonHeroAI team for the invite code!)

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@SDXLHQ Amazing how far it's come!

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@hippieh0p @framer_x Love it!

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@DJMaculate @framer_x Epic fight! Genuinely entertaining, and made me laugh

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@Skullenity @framer_x Love the crossover!

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@curiousMazor @framer_x @starks_arq @__p41 @airina_xyz @SDXLHQ Love this take! Nice one

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My Victorian attempt at the Fighter Joe module from Cartoon Hero 2.0, the epic course from @framer_x . Only 2mins long, had to rush to get it finished - so unpolished and with a ton of clips left on the cutting floor. 😩

[Raúl Ibarra @croa_san]

Cowboy Bebop was one of the first anime I watched, and years later while studying animation I realized Yutaka Nakamura had already quietly rewired my brain to value clear mass and rhythmic timing over noisy detail.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

This rings true to my experience in AI art.

Experienced artists are curious and want to learn more - they see it as a useful tool to express their ideas.

Haters are typically amateurs who don't like that people using AI now have the skills they had to spend time learning.