Lightricks LTX‑2 Fast delivers 20‑second takes – pricing lands at $0.80 per 1080p clip
Executive Summary
Lightricks just pushed LTX‑2 Fast into “one prompt, one take” territory: 20‑second continuous scenes with motion and audio locked in step. For anyone trying to stage beats or deliver dialogue, a clean 20s runway matters more than another filter. And the cost is sane: Runware is quoting $0.80 per 20‑second clip, while Replicate lets you pick 12, 14, 16, 18, or 20 seconds at 1080p so you can pace action without leaving the API.
This is a coordinated rollout, not a single endpoint flicker. fal exposed both text‑to‑video and image‑to‑video with an interactive playground, and a public LTX‑2 playground opened so anyone can test the longer takes in‑browser. Crucially, synchronized audio means your character performance carries across the whole shot — no more stitching half‑beats and hoping the VO lines up. Following Tuesday’s ComfyUI support that brought LTX‑2 audio into creator pipelines, today’s delta is single‑take length and multi‑vendor availability.
Creators are already pitting it against Veo and Sora in side‑by‑sides, focusing on dialogue sync, motion coherence, and narrative carry; early clips suggest blocking is finally predictable enough to plan shots instead of patching them. If you need even longer horizons, fal also added LongCat‑Video, a 13.6B model that reaches minute‑long clips at 480p/720p — useful for previz while LTX‑2 pushes fidelity at 20 seconds.
Feature Spotlight
LTX‑2 jumps to 20‑second cinematic takes
LTX‑2 Fast now makes single‑prompt, 20‑second scenes with synced audio and motion—enabling real story arcs, dialogue, and performance without stitching.
Cross‑account push today focuses on LTX‑2 Fast generating one continuous 20s scene with synced audio—big for story beats, pacing, and performance. Multiple vendors/tools shared links, tests, pricing, and playgrounds.
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🎬 LTX‑2 jumps to 20‑second cinematic takes
Cross‑account push today focuses on LTX‑2 Fast generating one continuous 20s scene with synced audio—big for story beats, pacing, and performance. Multiple vendors/tools shared links, tests, pricing, and playgrounds.
LTX‑2 Fast now delivers one‑take 20‑second scenes with synced audio
LTX Studio flipped the switch on continuous 20‑second generations that keep audio, motion, and character performance in sync—unlocking full story beats in a single prompt LTX Studio post. Lightricks echoed the push with a “one prompt, one take” call to try it now Lightricks note, following up on ComfyUI support which brought synchronized audio into creator pipelines.
fal brings LTX‑2 20‑second generation to its API and playground
fal rolled out the LTX‑2 upgrade with 20‑second continuous audio‑video takes, exposing both text‑to‑video and image‑to‑video endpoints plus an interactive playground fal upgrade post. Developers can try it instantly from the hosted pages for each endpoint fal try links, with direct access here: Text to video model and Image to video model.
Replicate enables 12–20s LTX‑2‑Fast outputs at 1080p for T2V and I2V
Replicate confirmed longer LTX‑2‑Fast outputs, letting creators pick 12, 14, 16, 18, or 20 seconds at 1080p, with both text‑to‑video and image‑to‑video modes supported Replicate update. This makes scene‑length selection explicit for pacing and action beats without leaving the API.
Runware prices LTX‑2 at $0.80 for a 20‑second clip
Runware made the 20‑second LTX‑2 upgrade available on its platform, advertising one smooth, stitched‑free take from a single prompt at $0.80 per 20 seconds Runware pricing post. Creators can launch directly via the model catalog for immediate testing Runware model page.
Creators pit LTX‑2 against Veo and Sora in side‑by‑side tests
Community trials put LTX‑2’s new 20‑second capability up against other top models, sharing prompts and results for apples‑to‑apples comparisons—useful for gauging dialogue sync, motion coherence, and narrative carry Comparison thread. For filmmakers, the longer take changes blocking and performance continuity expectations across tools.
LTX‑2 playground opens 20‑second generations to everyone
A public playground link went live so creators can try 20‑second single‑take generations in‑browser, alongside the official launch thread and examples Playground link. Early clips underscore what the extra duration buys in character motion and timing—“one shot, one take” storytelling Example clip.
🎥 Video toolset: i2v, swap modes, cameos, and character transforms
A busy day for filmmakers outside the LTX feature: new i2v options, swap modes, cameo access on iOS, and actor‑style transforms. Excludes LTX‑2 20s scenes (covered as the feature).
Higgsfield rolls out one‑click face integration and single‑photo talking heads
Higgsfield introduced a deepfake toolkit that turns a single photo into a talking, moving video and offers instant photo→target face swaps with strong character consistency in grain, lighting, and emotion Feature launch. The workflow is as simple as uploading a portrait and a target frame for seamless swaps Face swap flow, with examples showing convincing composites and a public site open for trials Product site.
Powerful for previs, casting tests, and parody; creatives should also weigh consent and licensing as this class of tools matures Consistency example.
Sora iOS adds character cameos; Android and regions unchanged
Character cameos are now available in the Sora iOS app, with no Android app or new regions announced yet Access update, following up on Character cameos (introducing reusable, named characters). Early posts show creators generating a character elsewhere, animating it, then uploading by name to Sora for consistent performance Creator demo.
This iOS support consolidates the cameo workflow on mobile for faster iteration while policy and rollout boundaries remain the same Access update.
PixVerse adds direct image‑to‑video, new image models, and a 300‑credit promo
PixVerse rolled in Nano Banana, Qwen‑image, and Seedream 4.0, enabling direct image‑to‑video creation and up to 4K image generation, with a 72‑hour retweet promo that DMs 300 credits to participants Release notes. Creators can now streamline ideation to motion within one workflow, pairing higher‑fidelity stills with one‑click i2v without leaving the app Release notes.
Seedance 1.0 Pro Fast cuts cost 60% and boosts speed 3× across partner platforms
BytePlus announced Seedance 1.0 Pro Fast with roughly 3× faster generation and ~60% lower cost, landing on ModelArk and partner hubs including Replicate, Runware, and Freepik for wider access Speed and cost. Partner amplification underscores a push to standardize the motion step in i2v pipelines for creators at scale Partner mention.
BytePlus OmniHuman 1.5 delivers multi‑style actor transformations from one performance
OmniHuman 1.5 lets filmmakers restyle a single captured performance—switching character look, mood, and wardrobe—without extra shoots, aimed at rapid explorations and direction changes during post Product brief. BytePlus is steering interested teams to its sales channel for integration and usage details Contact sales.
PixVerse SWAP Mode fuels Halloween video transformations
PixVerse is pushing its SWAP Mode for seasonal edits, letting creators transform existing footage with spooky looks and character replacements in a few clicks Feature brief. The mode is positioned for quick stylization runs that retain motion continuity, useful for shortform promos and social posts Feature brief.
Runware spotlights Seedream→Seedance i2v pipeline for wildlife reportage
Runware demos a Seedream 4.0 image pass feeding Seedance‑1.0 Pro Fast for motion, positioned as a "photo creation → animation in seconds" workflow for documentary‑style content Workflow demo. A companion example pegs costs at roughly $0.03 per image and $0.16 per 1040p clip, underscoring fast, iterative storyboard‑to‑motion loops Cost example.
For quick scene beats or social promos, the i2v handoff lets teams lock composition in stills before committing to motion renders Workflow demo.
Wan 2.5 earns creator praise for subtle shadow realism in haunted scenes
Alibaba’s Wan 2.5 drew attention for nuanced, shifting contact shadows—e.g., boot shadows sliding across a floor—helping sell haunted, low‑light moods without jitter Creator note. For filmmakers dialing in eerie ambience, this kind of temporal lighting coherence reduces the need for heavy post fixes Creator note.
⚖️ Music IP shockwave: UMG deals, Udio lock‑downs
Major licensing and policy moves hit AI music: a new UMG alliance, Udio’s sudden download restrictions, and settlement plans. Practical implications for creators’ workflows and rights.
UMG settles with Udio, plans licensed AI music platform for 2026 with fingerprinting
UMG has reportedly settled its copyright suit with Udio and will co‑launch a licensed, subscription AI music platform in 2026, including content fingerprinting and a walled‑garden approach; Udio’s current text‑to‑song remains during the transition Settlement details. The same report notes downloads are now disabled on Udio, aligning with a tighter IP compliance posture Downloads blocked.
For musicians and editors, expect more label‑approved outputs but stricter export/usage terms; watch for similar moves affecting rival tools.
Udio disables downloads without warning; refunds offered and CEO chat set
Creators report Udio has blocked all downloads platform‑wide with an in‑app pop‑up and no prior notice, sparking backlash and refund requests Downloads blocked. A Reddit thread shows Udio acknowledging refunds, and a subscriber Q&A with the CEO was scheduled to address the changes Refund thread, with registration via Google Meet Meet registration.
Immediate takeaway: safeguard your workflows and archive assets; expect platform policies to tighten as licensing deals reshape access.
UMG partners with Stability AI to co-develop licensed pro AI music tools
Universal Music Group and Stability AI announced a strategic alliance to build professional AI music creation tools trained responsibly and designed to support artists, producers, and songwriters worldwide Alliance post.
For creatives, this signals more label-cleared workflows and potential access to stems/voices under licensing frameworks rather than grey‑area generation.
Sam Altman signals interest in building an OpenAI music model
Sam Altman replied that he’d like OpenAI to build a music model, hinting at a potential entrant into an increasingly licensing‑driven space Altman reply.
If pursued, this could intensify competition for licensed catalogs, artist partnerships, and production‑grade music workflows aligned with label compliance.
🎶 Compose, sing, narrate: new AI music and voices
Fresh tools for scoring and narration: full‑stack song gen with vocals, faster TTS with Turbo/HD tiers, and community events around voice‑first interfaces.
UMG settles with Udio, plans a licensed AI music platform for 2026; downloads disabled now
Universal Music Group settled its 2024 lawsuit with Udio and will launch a licensed AI music platform in 2026 with fingerprinting and a walled‑garden approach; Udio’s current tool remains online during the transition Deal details. Users report downloads have been disabled without prior notice, with refunds and a CEO Q&A called to address concerns Downloads disabled, CEO chat.
MiniMax Music 2.0 debuts as an AI composer, singer, and producer with API access
MiniMax Music 2.0 lands with lifelike vocals across genres, 5‑minute multi‑instrument compositions, and fine control over musical expression, plus an API for developers. The team showcases fully generated audio and visuals to underline quality and scope Release thread, with a second post reaffirming the demo was created end‑to‑end by MiniMax/Hailuo Demo claim.
Stability AI and Universal Music Group form alliance to build licensed pro AI music tools
Stability AI and UMG announced a strategic alliance to co‑develop AI music creation tools trained responsibly and designed to support artists, producers, and songwriters globally Partnership note. For music creators, this signals a push toward rights‑cleared datasets and workflows that are viable for commercial release.
Replicate hosts MiniMax Speech 2.6 Turbo and HD for real‑time and high‑fidelity TTS
Replicate added MiniMax Speech‑2.6 in two tiers: Turbo for lightning‑fast, multilingual synthesis and HD for studio‑grade voiceovers Model listing, following up on Speech 2.6 launching with sub‑250 ms latency and 40+ languages yesterday. For creatives, this means one API for low‑latency dialogue previews and final‑mix narration.
ElevenLabs Summit adds Jack Dorsey to voice‑first lineup for Nov 11
ElevenLabs’ Nov 11 Summit on voice‑first interfaces adds Jack Dorsey (Block/Twitter co‑founder) to its speaker roster, highlighting the strategic weight behind conversational audio and agentic voice UX Speaker announcement. Registration is open for those building with AI voice and narration Event registration.
Sam Altman signals interest in building an OpenAI music model
Sam Altman replied that he’d like OpenAI to build a music model, signaling potential competition for incumbent AI music platforms and licensing‑backed newcomers Altman reply. If pursued, expect rapid pressure on composition quality, vocals realism, and guardrailed datasets.
Turning websites into music: ElevenLabs tool demo shows interactive audio UX
A GLIF demo shows how ElevenLabs’ music tool can make a website literally “sing,” hinting at new interactive formats for branded experiences and adaptive scoring across the web Demo clip. Creators can remix this pattern for immersive portfolios, campaign microsites, and generative soundtracks.
🎞️ Hailuo 2.3: new homes, speed notes, and side‑by‑sides
Continuing rollout with fresh integrations, rankings, and comparisons—what’s new today vs. prior days: Lovart launch deal, OpenArt integration, ranking callout, Standard vs Pro comparison, and fast‑mode timing.
Lovart turns on Hailuo 2.3 with a 10‑day launch deal
Lovart added Hailuo 2.3 and is offering 1 month of unlimited Hailuo 2.3 + LTX‑2 access for anyone who signs up for an annual plan between Oct 31 and Nov 10 (UTC). For creators, it’s a low‑friction way to test both cinematic motion and longer‑take generation in one place Launch deal.
OpenArt integrates Hailuo 2.3 with 720p/1080p and Fast mode
OpenArt now serves Hailuo 2.3—the successor to 02—with improved motion, physics and text rendering, offering both 720p and 1080p outputs plus a Fast mode tuned for quick iteration. This follows Freepik rollout, where another platform turned it on for creators; together it signals rapid, cross‑platform availability for i2v/T2V pipelines Integration note.
Hailuo 2.3 Fast averages <6s with four free videos daily
Hailuo 2.3’s Fast mode is averaging under 6 seconds per render, and the service is offering four free videos per day—useful for rapid prototyping before committing to Pro‑tier fidelity or longer takes elsewhere Speed and quota.
Hailuo 2.3 noted just below Veo and Sora on leaderboards
Community ranking chatter places Hailuo 2.3 just beneath Veo and Sora, reinforcing that its motion realism and temporal consistency are now considered top‑tier among widely used models. While not an official chart, it aligns with the week’s creator tests and comparisons Ranking comment.
Hailuo 2.3 Standard vs Pro side‑by‑side at 1080p
A creator comparison pits Hailuo 2.3 Standard against Pro at 1080p, showing Pro’s stronger cinematic realism and fine detail while Standard remains the efficient choice for quick looks. If you’re picking a tier per shot, this clarifies the trade‑off between speed and fidelity Side-by-side thread.
🧰 APIs and hosting: fal platform, LongCat minutes‑long video, SDKs
Infra for creative apps: platform APIs for pricing/usage, minute‑long video model availability, and SDK updates. Excludes ChronoEdit research details (covered under Research).
fal launches Platform APIs for discovery, pricing, and programmatic analytics
fal unveiled Platform APIs that let teams programmatically discover models, pull real‑time pricing/estimates, and track usage/performance—useful for wiring creative apps and internal dashboards without scraping UIs Feature overview.
- Discover models and metadata to power pickers and validation flows Feature overview.
- Retrieve price quotes and cost estimates to budget renders ahead of time Feature overview.
- Query usage and performance to monitor spend and success rates across projects Feature overview.
LongCat‑Video on fal enables minute‑long generations
LongCat‑Video is now available on fal with a 13.6B parameter model capable of minute‑long videos, supporting both text‑to‑video and image‑to‑video at 480p or 720p, plus distilled and non‑distilled tiers for quality/cost tradeoffs Model availability. Access and launch links were shared for immediate use Access link.
fal’s Usage API adds granular workspace reporting
A new Usage API exposes detailed workspace metrics with filters for endpoint, user, and date range, returning unit quantities and prices for reporting and trend monitoring—ideal for producers tracking model costs per show or client Docs overview, and outlined in the official reference Usage API docs.
Replicate releases new Python SDK (beta)
Replicate announced a new Python SDK in beta aimed at making it easier to run AI models directly from Python code—handy for creative pipelines that batch assets or orchestrate multi‑model runs without custom HTTP glue SDK beta note.
🎨 Lookbooks and prompts: silhouettes, gothic anime, Freakbags
Fresh style guides and prompt recipes dominated today—useful for posters, anime realism, and seasonal moods. Mostly community recipes and srefs with reproducible params.
Silhouettes of Light: a plug‑and‑play cinematic poster recipe
Azed_AI shared a reusable prompt formula for high‑impact silhouette posters—strong subject outline against glowing dual‑color backlight, minimal detail, and bold type—tailor‑made for moody key art and Halloween looks Prompt formula. Community remixes are everywhere, spanning astronauts, horses, witches, samurai, and dance poses, signaling a fast‑moving micro‑trend you can drop into any brand palette Community examples.
Freakbag Collection drops five Halloween style refs
Bri_Guy_AI launched a weekly Freakbag series with five sref combos for spooky‑season aesthetics, packaged as bookmarkable style references Series kickoff. The round‑up wraps vaporwave pink pixel vibes, purple‑orange animated palettes, 80s graphic energy, grinning party monsters, and a moody anime set—each with concrete sref IDs for instant reuse Roundup post.
Midjourney style ref 2941582994 nails gothic anime realism
A new MJ style reference (--sref 2941582994) captures dramatic realism anime with Victorian horror and dark romanticism vibes—think Vampire Hunter D, Castlevania, Ergo Proxy—ideal for elegant character sheets, villain portraits, and atmospheric posters Style ref thread.
MJ V7 recipe: chaos 17, sref 4067064803, stylize 600
Azed_AI posted a reproducible MJ V7 setup—--chaos 17, --ar 3:4, --sref 4067064803, --sw 400, --stylize 600—showing a versatile board from lifestyle to character design. It’s a handy starting point for building a cohesive campaign look that still explores visual variety Recipe details.
Nano Banana portrait blueprints go deep on studio lighting and lenses
Two new, studio‑grade prompt blueprints landed for Nano Banana—calling out 85–100 mm lenses, f/1.8–2.8, low‑key rim light, hair lights, and precise framing for editorial results, following up on Fashion portraits which introduced hyper‑real editorial recipes Blueprint example. The second setup pushes a moody lounge backdrop with gallery walls, thigh‑high gloss boots, and shallow DOF at 85 mm for a high‑fashion K‑pop aesthetic Second blueprint.
A clean Midjourney lookbook for nature, pets, and stylized scenes
ProperPrompter shared a tidy grid of MJ‑generated inspiration—cats, chipmunks, character poses, stylized fauna in front of architecture—useful as a color, composition, and subject study even without published prompts Inspiration grid.
🪄 Face swaps and character fidelity for storytellers
Identity‑driven pipelines—photo→moving performance, one‑click face integration, and consistent grain/lighting across shots—raised both excitement and caution for creators.
Higgsfield rolls out one‑click face integration, single‑photo talking heads, and high‑fidelity swaps
Creators are testing a new Higgsfield stack that turns one photo into a moving, speaking character, does instant photo→target face swaps, and claims perfect grain/lighting/emotion consistency across shots feature overview, face swap flow, one‑click integration, consistency claim. It’s live to try now with a public site and community invites try now, and some users report a 2× free credits promo on FaceSwap while sharing before/after examples user demo, Higgsfield site.
Sora iOS adds character cameos; creators show cross‑tool pipelines for consistent identities
Character cameos are now appearing in the Sora iOS app for supported regions, letting you upload and reuse named characters across clips iOS note, following up on Character cameos in the main app. Creators demonstrate the workflow—design a character in another tool, animate it, then upload and name it in Sora for consistent performances across scenes workflow tip, with fun examples already circulating robot cameo.
OmniHuman 1.5 promises multi‑style, mood, and outfit swaps from a single performance
BytePlus says OmniHuman 1.5 can preserve a performer’s identity while swapping styles, moods, and outfits—useful for character‑driven ads and narrative reshoots without re‑captures feature summary, with sales and onboarding open for teams exploring this pipeline Contact page.
Apob AI converts one image into a full ad campaign with motion, voice, and story
Apob pitches a photo→campaign pipeline that keeps the subject’s identity consistent while auto‑producing motion, VO, and narrative beats—useful for creators turning stills into character‑led promos in seconds product link, with signup and examples on the site Product site.
SJinn’s Halloween tool turns a single photo into a costume video
SJinn ships a web tool that converts one selfie into a Halloween costume clip—identity preserved, look transformed—aimed at creators who need quick character variants for seasonal shorts tool page, with a direct link for immediate use Product page.
🧪 Applied research for creators: physical edits, VFX in‑context, video reasoning
Papers/tools that change creative control: physics‑aware edits from a video prior, in‑context VFX learning, video reasoning via RL, and a visual‑programmatic code interface.
NVIDIA open-sources ChronoEdit‑14B for physics‑aware, temporally consistent edits
NVIDIA’s ChronoEdit‑14B lands on Hugging Face with a two‑stage inference pipeline that brings video priors to image editing, yielding physically plausible, temporally consistent changes for creatives Model overview. It’s already live on fal with day‑0 availability, making it easy to test in production workflows fal model drop, and a public Space offers hands‑on experimentation Hugging Face space.
• Under the hood: a video reasoning stage denoises latent trajectories, followed by an in‑context editing stage that prunes trajectory tokens—useful for action‑conditioned edits like motion‑aware compositing Model overview. • The team also shared illustrative before‑after edits (e.g., Hokusai “Great Wave”) to spotlight physically faithful changes Before–after demo. • Repo and code are open‑sourced, with additional confirmation via NVIDIA researchers’ thread Open‑source note.
BAAI’s URSA generates any aspect ratio from one video model
BAAI’s URSA removes fixed‑resolution constraints by combining block‑wise attention with decoupled positional embeddings, letting a single model natively output 9:16, 1:1, 16:9, or 2.39:1 without retraining—handy for platform‑ready masters Blog summary. Current specs cover ~5 s at 24 fps with solid temporal consistency; code and weights are open, with production caveats and pipeline fit analyzed in the write‑up Blog post.
VFXMaster frames in‑context VFX: learn an effect from one reference, apply anywhere
VFXMaster proposes a unified, reference‑driven framework that imitates dynamic visual effects in‑context—no per‑effect LoRAs—then adapts to unseen styles with a one‑shot booster Paper thread. The method introduces an in‑context attention mask to inject essential effect attributes without leaking content, showing strong generalization in experiments ArXiv paper. Author discussion invites practitioner Q&A for real‑world pipelines Author discussion.
JanusCoder debuts a visual‑programmatic interface for code with an 800K multimodal corpus
JanusCoder introduces a foundational interface for code intelligence that generates and edits code from both text and visual inputs, trained on the new JanusCode‑800K multimodal corpus Paper brief. The series (7B–14B) reports competitive results versus commercial coding models across multiple tasks, with data synthesis and quality filters documented in the paper page for reproducibility Paper page.
Video‑Thinker trains models to “think with videos” via reinforcement learning
Video‑Thinker tackles long‑horizon video reasoning by coupling intrinsic grounding and captioning skills with RL, enabling models to generate reasoning clues during inference Paper thread. The release includes Video‑Thinker‑10K for autonomous tool use inside chain‑of‑thought sequences, with code and benchmarks detailed in the paper page ArXiv paper, and an additional project page for deeper implementation notes Paper page.
🧩 Prompt ops and creative utilities
Workflow helpers for teams: API logging→datasets for evals, quick mockups for ads, and auto music‑video assembly. Excludes LTX feature and research drops.
Google AI Studio adds Logs & Datasets for one‑click Gemini API telemetry
Google AI Studio rolled out Logs & Datasets, a one‑click Gemini API telemetry switch that requires no code. Teams can track inputs/outputs, status and errors, then export runs into datasets for evals and prompt tuning; logging requires billing to be enabled logging UI screenshot.
This pushes prompt ops toward measurable experiments and produces clean artifacts for regression tests and prompt reviews.
fal debuts Platform APIs for pricing, usage, and model discovery
fal introduced Platform APIs that expose model discovery, live pricing estimates, usage metrics, and performance so teams can wire up dashboards and cost guards without scraping UIs release thread.
Highlights for ops: query unit prices before a run, fetch per‑endpoint/user consumption, and export time‑series for budgets and alerts Usage docs.
OpenArt’s music‑video tool auto‑cuts scenes to your track
OpenArt now assembles beat‑synced music videos from a single track, auto‑building multi‑style scenes and pacing to the song in a few minutes creator demo. You choose a vibe or blend styles and the system handles scene cuts and motion sync. Useful for concepting lyric videos, tour teasers, and mood reels; details and access in the product hub OpenArt homepage.
Replicate ships a new Python SDK beta for simpler model runs
Replicate released a new Python SDK (beta) to streamline running models and integrating them into pipelines, lowering the glue‑code tax for creative tooling SDK announcement. Expect easier auth, simpler invocation, and faster prototyping for internal helpers that chain image, video, and audio steps.
Runway’s Mockup app turns sketches into production‑ready ad visuals
Sketch to spot in minutes: Runway’s new Mockup app converts rough drawings into polished ad visuals inside its Apps for Advertising collection Mockup app, following up on Create Ads app which focused on variant generation from a finished ad. Upload a scan or doodle, describe the target product/look, and iterate comps before you spend time on full shoots.
Apob turns a single image into a motion‑and‑voice ad campaign
A single reference image can now become a full ad campaign with voice and motion via Apob AI, taking assets from static to cinematic in seconds APOB site. This is designed for quick spec comps and social tests before you commit to production budgets.
Pictory adds Smart Layouts to auto‑format quotes, stats, and lists
Pictory added Smart Layouts that auto‑format quotes, stats, and lists in one click so editors can focus on story while layouts stay on‑brand feature brief. Handy for fast‑turn explainers and ad cutdowns where typography polish usually eats time.
🎃 Seasonal creative calls: contests, screenings, and freebies
Community‑led Halloween momentum: awards, open collabs, and free seasonal templates for fast content. Creator culture and participation are the news here.
Kling AI screens NEXTGEN award winners in Tokyo after 4,600+ entries from 122 countries
Kling hosted its NEXTGEN Creative Contest awards ceremony and screening in Tokyo, showcasing shorts like Grand Prix winner “Alzheimer” and jury picks “BOZULMA (THE DISTORTION)” and “Ghost Lap,” with comments from Oscar-winning art director Tim Yip on the pace of AI film craft event recap.
The event underlines how image‑to‑video tools are enabling narrative, style, and realism at festival level for indie creators.
Leonardo names winners of the 3rd Annual AI Horror Film Competition; judging available to watch
Leonardo AI announced “The Missing Segment” by Sam Lavy as the $7,000 Grand Prize winner, with “Morphe” (2nd), “Clinical Calm” (3rd), and Audience Favorite “La Isla de las Muñecas”; the full judging session is posted for creators to study pacing, sound, and narrative decisions winners summary, YouTube judging.
Vidu makes all Halloween templates free through Nov 1
To accelerate last‑minute spooky content, Vidu unlocked all Halloween templates for free from Oct 27 to Nov 1, encouraging creators to experiment without budget friction free templates.
Hedra’s Halloween push: 12‑hour free guide drop and 1,000 credits for tagged content
Hedra is giving away a “Get Started with Hedra” guide via follow/RT/comment for 12 hours and DMing 1,000 free credits to creators who post Halloween content and tag the account; promo ends tomorrow night promo details, following up on promo week.
Open call: crowd‑finish the Halloween short “Enter the Closet” with your AI sequence
Director Diesol invites the community to post an AI‑generated sequence showing what happens after the camera enters the closet; submissions will be stitched into a final Halloween cut, a quick way to network and showcase model chops under a shared prompt open call, join thread.
SJinn launches one‑photo Halloween costume videos with 20+ instant looks
SJinn’s seasonal tool turns a single portrait into a Halloween costume video—no prompts needed—offering 20+ styles for rapid participation on social channels tool announcement, SJinn tool.
[ esc ] fest: Macabre & Mayhem Season 2 screens tomorrow with AI‑first horror
The [ esc ] fest in association with Griptape returns with Macabre & Mayhem Season 2, signaling an active slate of AI‑assisted horror screenings for Halloween weekend event teaser.
Spookify goes viral as a fast Halloween costume maker for pics and videos
The community is piling into Spookify to auto‑generate Halloween outfits from user photos and short videos, offering an easy on‑ramp for seasonal posts and shorts try it now.