Adrian Arcega

Director / VFX specialist / graphic designer / musician / writer / Time Lord Kryptonian Jedi

[Rez Karim @rezkhere]

New path control system in Seedance 2.0 just cooked Hollywood...

- You draw the camera move by hand.
- Scribble a red line across a still image
- Feed it to the model and it flies the shot along that exact route.

Then it erases the line so it never shows up in the footage.

The marker stroke becomes the flight path.

Prompts below on @unsora_ai👇

[Mike Epstein @heymike]

MUSIC INDUSTRY HOT TAKE - how artists are tagged on DSPs is broken.

Artists would benefit from DSPs having a checks and balances system - when an artist is being tagged as a primary artist on a release that's not theirs, they must choose to accept it in order for the release to show up on their profile and in their DSP backend.

It's so easy for an artist to get tagged by another artist not realizing they are interrupting a rollout and potentially causing massive consequences, intefering with that artist's original release.

It's unfair to the artist and a broken system in general.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is pretty insane: the U.S. just tried to literally re-colonize part of the Philippines.

They did so under the so-called "Pax Silica" initiative, the brainchild of - surprise, surprise - an ex-Palantir guy named Jacob Helberg who now runs U.S. economic "diplomacy" from the State Department.

It's causing a big outcry in the Philippines, which is quite a feat given this is by far the most US-friendly country in Southeast Asia.

If you're the US and you're getting the Marcos administration - of all governments - to push back on sovereignty, you've really overplayed your hand.

What is the "Pax Silica" initiative? In a nutshell it's about the US getting other countries to commit to restructuring their AI tech infrastructure around a US-led stack. It's basically vendor lock-in: you hand over your critical minerals, align your export controls with Washington's, regulate AI the way America wants, and in return you get to be a US "trusted partner," whatever that means these days.

In essence, let's not kid ourselves, it's all about China: this is the US's initiative to "win the AI race" by getting other countries to contractually commit to keeping China out of their tech supply chains. When you can't preserve your lead through innovation, you seek to lock countries in contractually.

For instance as a country, this would mean telling Huawei they can't sell you AI chips, and telling Chinese firms they can't invest in your data centers - even if they're better and cheaper. It's not about choosing the best technology, it's about choosing the right flag.

But in this instance, the US went much further still: they literally tried to carve out 4,000 acres of Philippine territory (in New Clark City, 60 miles north of Manila) to be governed under US common law with diplomatic immunity - the first arrangement of its kind anywhere in the modern world.

This is according to the WSJ who ran the story last month (https://t.co/kydhIQfo2A) as if it was a done deal (it wasn't).

Heard about the "French concession" or "British concession" in China during the century of humiliation? Same thing: the US basically asked for an "American concession" in the Philippines.

Unsurprisingly, there was quite a bit of backlash in the country with for instance the Peasant Movement of the Philippines (KMP) calling it a “massive sellout” of the country’s land, minerals, and sovereignty (https://t.co/nkXSajH2Q7).

So much so that the Philippines' government - namely Joshua Bingcang, president and chief executive of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) - issued a statement saying that the Philippines had rejected US proposals that would place the project beyond local jurisdiction (https://t.co/ZmNWJB03eH).

Note, by the way, this delicious irony: the BCDA is the government agency that was created in 1992 specifically to convert former US military bases at Clark and Subic Bay after the Philippines spent decades negotiating their closure. New Clark City - where the Pax Silica's hub would go - is built on the old Clark Air Base.

So the agency whose entire reason for existing is to turn former American colonial territory (i.e. US military bases) into sovereign Philippine land is the one now being asked to hand part of that very same land back under US jurisdiction (and, apparently, declined).

Of course though, blocking this specific jurisdiction grab doesn't change the bigger picture. The Philippines is still a Pax Silica signatory, and Pax Silica itself is structurally neocolonial: you supply the cheap labor and raw materials, align your export controls and regulations with Washington's, cut yourself off from the world's rising technological powerhouse - and in exchange you get assembly jobs and the privilege of getting a pat on the head and being called a "trusted partner."

They dropped the most cartoonishly colonial demand - governing Philippine soil under US law - but the underlying architecture is the same: you serve America's supply chain, on America's terms, and you relinquish your sovereign right to trade with whoever offers the best deal.

[Kōda @aimikoda]

GPT Image 2 - Character Reference Sheet Prompt

You can create a character reference sheet in any style you want for use in your Seedance 2.0 videos. All you need to do is either provide a reference image or describe your character. You can also input random values to generate completely random characters.

This reference sheet provides a clear, structured, and highly readable visual breakdown of the character, helping the model maintain strong identity consistency across different outputs. The layout ensures the model focuses on essential visual information rather than stylistic noise, while the inclusion of expressions, head angles, and performance cues improves the model’s ability to generate believable acting and varied poses without losing character integrity.

All clips in the demonstration video were generated using the reference sheet image and the same Seedance 2.0 prompt. You can find the prompts in the replies. 👇

GPT Image 2 and Seedance 2.0 are both available on @mitte_ai

[Hasan Toor @hasantoxr]

Wow... Someone built the Pinterest of AI image prompts and it's 100% free.

It's called MeiGen. A massive gallery of viral prompts for GPT Image 2, Nano Banana 2, Seedance 2.0, Veo 3.1, and Midjourney all in one place.

No prompt engineering. No paid courses. Just steal what already went viral.

100% free.

[DStudioproject @D_studioproject]

GPT Image 2 x Seedance 2.0 Anime Style Racing on flora

i share a simple workflow to help the model understand scene order more clearly when working with anime style pages ⬇️

[Adrian Arcega @stompboxer]

@SaplanTX @Pontifex The idea of "weak" versus earthly ideas of "strength" is definitely not Christian at all. You dare talk to the Pope like that? On whose authority? Don't say "God," as the Beatitudes totally contradicts your line of thinking.

[Adrian Arcega @stompboxer]

@Ortie1180 @ChristopherHale "Woke" Pope? Being "woke" is in the job description.

[Charly Wargnier @DataChaz]

Wow.

@Netflix just dropped VOID.

This AI removes objects from any video...

And even corrects the physics of the scene after objects/people are removed 🤯

It's 100% free and open-source.

Repo + demo links in 🧵↓

[el.cine @EHuanglu]

this changes filmmaking completely

Seedance 2.0 now can key green screen precisely and.. edit film scene layer by layer separately.. AI just made months of work one click..

full tutorial on OpenArt + prompts:

[Robert Kearney @Robkearney1981]

For those who want to accuse only Pope Leo and his predecessor, Francis, of being "Woke" for criticizing Israel, just a reminder that conservative Pope Benedict XVI (and almost every Pope before him) were critical of Israel and its actions in the same way.

Opposition to Israeli Zionist expansionism has always been the policy of the Catholic Church since that country was created in 1947.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

On behalf of the Christians of the #MiddleEast, and of all women and men of good will, I appeal to those responsible for this conflict: cease fire! May paths of dialogue be reopened! Violence can never lead to the justice, stability and peace for which the peoples are waiting.

[Mike Epstein @heymike]

Spotify's position in the audience funnel is "dying" but can still exist in a parallel economy with direct-to-fan.

Streaming revenue can be passive and something that grows in the background.

Direct-to-fan grows, nurtures, and engages the audience.

[Adrian Arcega @stompboxer]

Oh wow.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

The new Kling Motion Control is insanely good at character swap.

I used "known" faces, which is hard mode - we're much better at judging if they stay consistent throughout the clip.

It's not perfect, but it handled a tricky shot with multiple weird angles quite well 👇

[Adrian Arcega @stompboxer]

@Targrod Were you guys able to get this digitized?

[Adrian Arcega @stompboxer]

Holy--!

[VraserX e/acc @VraserX]

Seedance 3.0 specs just leaked.

If this is accurate, this isn’t another incremental AI video upgrade. It’s a structural shock to Hollywood.

• 10 to 18 minute coherent films in one pass
• Persistent narrative memory across scenes
• Native multi language voice with emotional control
• Shot level directing inputs like a real production workflow
• Cost reportedly a fraction of traditional shoots

We are not talking about TikTok clips anymore.
We are talking about full cinematic episodes generated from prompts.

Hollywood’s moat was scale, capital, and distribution.

AI just compressed all three.

[Runway @runwayml]

Go from concept to campaign film in a matter of hours. All with just a single starting image. And all without the need to shut down Times Square.

Start by sketching out your idea and generating your hero image. Then use Nano Banana Pro to create your storyboard and Gen-4.5 Image to Video to bring it all to life.

Reply MOVE for the full workflow BTS.

[Runway @runwayml]

Gen-4.5, the world's best video model, now has Image to Video.

Built for longer stories. Precise camera control. Coherent narratives. And characters that stay consistent.

Learn more below on how you can combine Nano Banana Pro and Gen-4.5 Image to Video to build out any cinematic universe or story world you want. All within Runway.

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[Adrian Arcega @stompboxer]

@jondelarroz Let me spell it out for you: the gag is that HIS NAME IS A PRONOUN.

Wait til you meet his twin sister.

[Subi-doo 🐸 @suzamaroo]

The parallels between Natzi Germany and modern day America 101.

Worth the watch.