A goth metal track whose lyrics are the Great Compassion Mantra in pinyin. No artist, no budget for sets. A complete music video about the six realms of rebirth, with the band inside every one of them.
No human faces. Faces and hands are where AI breaks first, so the whole film is liquid metal and light.
The thousand-armed Guanyin started from a statue reference and kept growing a torso; a reference of arms alone fixed it. The drummer always grew an extra arm in generation, so drummer shots were dropped for hand close-ups. The first band was sent back for “big head, short legs, cartoon proportions” and rebuilt on a real-body proportion base.
Each realm's tempo follows the song: Deva slow, Asura fastest, Animal slowest, Hell out of control. 57 rejected takes are kept, each with the reason it was cut.
A finished 3:15 music video in 2.35:1. From kick-off to a cuttable full film: days.
For bands and labels: no shooting budget, and still a film that can go to festivals. For advertisers: a world of texture and light is where AI is steadier than live actors.
Six Realms · full film · 3'15" · 2.35:1 · sound on · all stills below are frames from the final cut
The craft in AI film is not generation. It is knowing what cannot be used. A selection, with original file names.
Extra armsThe drummer grows a third arm on the third hit. Drummers always do in generation, so they were cut for hand close-ups.
Cartoon proportionsThe singer reads like a toy. The whole band was rebuilt on a real-body proportion base.
DraperyThe spec said “drape” and the model delivered a sheet of cloth. The word was banned; the flow of liquid is described instead.
Crawling in from the sideThe figure enters from the edge. The rise of the liquid surface has to be the figure itself.
Dead materialThe black oil stops flowing and reads as wax.
Ten heads tallAn Asura-realm player stretched. This is what happens without a proportion lock in the spec.
A stage and archesThe background grew a stage and a light rig. There are no stages in the six realms. The whole batch was cut.
Ripples too loudThe opening surged in rings. The brief was a calm, barely moving surface with a flickering light revealing the thousand arms. Regenerated.
REF · A_avalokitesvara
The first thousand-arm reference was a statue. Generation kept growing a torso.
REF · C0_hands
Arms only. This is the hand the film needed.