Making the Phantom Queen Trailer with ComfyUI, LTX and Claude

A Director with an AI Film Crew

(For the TLDR crowd: ComfyUI, LTX 2.3 are good, Fanxiang SSDs are less good, and Claude can sync lipsync clips to a song and color-grade more easily than a human can. You will however end up sending it a lot of memos to refine its editing.)

From Wizard’s Car Chase to Pride & Planetoids

Just about a year ago, I made my first music video, Wizard’s Car Chase. It started with a Midjourney image of a modern Wizard’s Battle in the style of the Hildebrandt Brothers. Then I generated a bunch of random videos in Midjourney out of curiosity. Then I saw a writer acquaintance doing music videos for one of her worlds (human lyrics, Suno songs, Midjourney footage) and I wanted to try something similar. A few attempts in Suno later, I had a song, and about six-seven hours worth of editing across two days got me a video.

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Video Thursday: War Chant Edition

Before Maxim danced, his father marched. 🥁 This is the version of the Armor of Arent’s song that Maxim’s father, King Urban, would have known: no fiddles, no dance rhythm. Just male voices, a drum, and a war chant old enough to mean something. The lively folk setting in the original music video? That came later. After a certain pilot got into the cockpit and had ideas.

🎶 Lyrics video. Sing along if you dare. https://youtube.com/shorts/zxcLk0oLF_Y

🎬 Created with AI tools (Midjourney + Suno) 📚 From the gaslamp fantasy series by Mel Dunay! The Hunter-Healer-King trilogy combines steampunk monster hunting with slow-burn romance. For fans of Patricia Briggs and Lindsay Buroker.

🎬 Watch the dancing mecha version here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XhTQ__CjtVY

📚 READ THE HUNTER HEALER KING TRILOGY: Book 1 – Wolf’s Trail: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR81P9QP Book 2 – Undead Flight: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNGWVPMH Book 3 – Dragon’s Teeth: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GB86H4N5 Complete series: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR7ZL3S7 🌐 https://jaglionpress.com/blog/

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Music Monday By Suno: Door Into Summer

Suno wouldn’t let me use the opening paragraphs of Robert Heinlein’s Door Into Summer as song lyrics (no, it’s not a copyright issue, I’ve gotten Suno to use Star Wars dialogue as lyrics in the past), so instead I gave it a general prompt based on the anecdote of the cat who won’t accept that all doors lead to winter snow: https://suno.com/song/a611bcd1-1579-45bf-ae34-0a2f2732d4e7?sh=Rvqz0Izo10EGxrJv