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The greatest possibility of AI is to allow individuals' "aesthetics and creativity" to no longer be limited by "technology and capital" and to achieve a true "one-person army."
Phenomenal explosion: from Yunnan county to Hollywood
A wedding photographer from Xinping County, Yuxi, Yunnan, who graduated from a technical secondary school, taught himself AI for only 4 months. He spent 10 days and 3,000 yuan in computing power to independently create a 3 minute and 34 second AI science fiction wasteland short film "Zombie Scavenger".
The short film has garnered more than 12 million views on social platforms and even attracted the attention of Hollywood producers, who offered him a chance to collaborate. Although he declined the invitation to go to the United States because of his poor English and the desire to stay in his hometown, he has successfully signed a contract with a domestic film and television company and plans to develop this short film into a theatrical feature film.
This is no longer science fiction, but reality that is happening right now.
How AI can bridge the “technical gap” for ordinary people
In the past, what kind of configuration was needed for a wasteland science fiction short film with exquisite special effects, complex scenes, love-hate relationships between mechanical zombies and puppets?
- A director and several screenwriters.
- A special effects team of dozens of people, post-production editors, colorists, and sound effects engineers.
- Hundreds of thousands or even millions of start-up capital, and a production cycle of several months.
Now, **Liu Ziyu (Mx-Shell) has done everything in 10 days with only one person, one brain, and one machine. **
AI generation tools (such as Jimeng Seedance 2.0, Midjourney, Flux, etc.) serve as camera operators, lighting engineers, special effects teams, and sound effects libraries. Creators only need to convert the pictures in their minds into precise text prompts (Prompt) to direct the AI puzzle. This significantly reduces the decisive weight of capital in creative production.
Aesthetics and experience: irreplaceable core assets
Many people worry that “AI has lowered the threshold, does it mean everyone is a master?”
Quite the opposite is true. When the threshold of technology is infinitely lowered, the threshold of "aesthetics" and "real experience" is infinitely raised. **
Why did Liu Ziyu make this film and not someone else? Because his main business is wedding photographer. He has been shooting offline all year round and has a very solid intuition about the focal length of the camera lens, composition aesthetics, changes in light and shadow, and emotional rhythm.
He can translate these lens intuitions into highly structured prompt words, such as:
- What kind of movement trajectory is needed for the picture (push, pull, shake, move)
- The texture and reflection of mechanical materials under specific light
- The collision between music and images
The AI is just a hired super-employee, and he is the director who controls the whole situation and is responsible for the final aesthetic output.
The "golden age" of individual creators
For ordinary people, freelancers or small and micro business owners, the biggest inspiration of this story is: **You don’t need to wait until you have a huge team or get huge investment to start your idea. **
Whether you’re writing a book, designing a product, making a short film, or providing a consulting service, AI can be your super-leverage. You are responsible for aesthetics, direction, emotion and insight into customer pain points, and AI is responsible for tedious execution and generation.
The future business competition will no longer be a competition based on team size, but a competition based on the efficiency of “personal creativity + AI computing power”.
FAQ
Does it require writing complicated code to make a short film like this?
unnecessary. The main tool interaction relies on natural language prompts (Prompt). The key lies in how to describe the shots and scenes in your mind to the AI in a clear, specific, and structured manner.
What is the biggest difficulty currently in AI video generation?
The biggest difficulties at present are "character consistency" and "action accuracy". Liu Ziyu overcomes these limitations by combining Midjourney to set the tone, Nano Banana to lock in the character, and finely polishing the close-ups.
