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VP of Technology at @theblaze | AI Filmmaker | Ex-Disney
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I let this one run overnight.

“Same process. Make an 80s sci-fi action film about an animatronic teddy bear fighting robots with laser guns. Under a minute.”
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This was made 100% with local models. Every frame and every sound in this cartoon came from AI models running on an NVIDIA DGX Spark on my desk. No cloud generation, no subscriptions.

"Santa and the Little Lost Star"
All I typed was "make a Christmas short under a minute" (plus "Santa" and "1930s cartoon style"). I didn't write the story, plan the shots or edit it. Opus 5.5 came up with the story, wrote the narration, generated every shot on the Spark, rejected the bad takes, mixed the sound and cut it together.

It took about 4 and a half hours today. The first full cut was done in an hour. The rest was agent directed polishing: 28 video renders, about 3 hours of GPU time, for 22 seconds of finished film.

It was all made in Imagination Studio, a free, open-source local film studio built by @SamJWasserman. This thing is ridiculous. One installer downloads every model you need, and an AI agent can drive the whole thing.

What made what (all running locally):
Video: MiniMax H3 (FastH3) with the Studio 1939 LoRA by @OdinLovis for the golden-age hand-painted look
Title card: MOSS-Image
End card: FLUX3-K
Keyframe fixes: Qwen-Image 2.1
Narrator and Santa's voice: Fish Audio Drama 3
Score: MiniMax Music 3
The "Merry Christmas everyone" song: YuE2 Sound effects: Stable Audio Open

github.com/drowzeys/Imagi…
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