08-28-2025
I decide to create a companion video blog for the Pipeline creation, as a way to document further my explorations on creating tools with a.i. assistance. So here is the intro to the blog series in video form.
I originally thought this would only take about a week - because I was going to just animate the images used in my blog post and add in screen captures I've been collecting along the way of the development of the project.
That was not the case and the projects scope kept expanding.
I was able to get a handle on it and wrap it up in just under 3 weeks. Along the way I continued to plan out how to work this sort of video into the large pipeline context.
I'll attempt to discuss that process in future blog posts as well, I ended up getting a pretty good system in place for using Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Midjourney, ElevenLabs, Chat GPT 5, Grok and Suno.
One of my take aways is that I really need to brush up on best practices on ArtBoards, I started spamming them as I was attempting to see what worked best in my First/Last frames in Midjourney Video generations. It was really helpful for being able to grab any item and dupe it onto the new ArtBoard, but the memory usage and file size is concerning going forward making more files with more targeted ArtBoard creation.
I started getting ChatGPT to export turn around images of the axolotl character with transparency, building up the views as library entries with variations so I could quickly build out shot ideas and play around with composition and styles.