Nano Banana Pro fuels 8 blueprints and 70%‑off unlimited – de facto camera

Kimi launched Agentic Slides, a feature that takes long documents or research topics and turns them into fully editable PPTX decks, pairing K2’s agentic search with Nano Banana Pro‑generated slide art, and it’s free and unlimited for the first 48 hours. You can upload 100‑page PDFs or technical papers and get back consultant‑style presentations with infographics, diagrams, and NB Pro illustrations, then tweak every text box and layout in PowerPoint. (Slides quick demo, Slides deep dive)

For creatives, this is interesting less as a note‑taking tool and more as a rapid pitch‑deck and look‑book generator: you can specify visual styles like Studio Ghibli or Slam Dunk, and NB Pro handles the art direction while K2 structures the narrative. The sample decks show mental‑health onboarding slides with mascots and rainbow workflows that feel like something from a real HR agency, not a generic template pack.

Because the output is standard PPTX, you can still refine typography, swap assets, or re‑use NB Pro frames elsewhere; Agentic Slides becomes a fast way to get from concept to a first pass that a designer can polish instead of starting from a blank canvas. Slides feature recap

Higgsfield is in the last ~48 hours of its Thanksgiving / Black Friday promo, keeping 70% off yearly access to its full image toolkit with unlimited Nano Banana Pro, Soul and REVE for a year, and layering on engagement bounties of 240 and 216 credits for retweets and replies. This follows the earlier bump to 70% off unlimited access 70off unlimited, and the push now leans heavily on “we built the viral 1‑click apps you’re seeing everywhere” to pull creators into its ecosystem. (70off toolkit offer, One click apps promo)

For image makers and filmmakers, this means a short window where NB Pro usage is effectively unmetered inside Higgsfield, which is attractive if you’re experimenting with high‑volume blueprints or running lots of stylistic iterations. The credit drops (240 and 216) are small but useful for sampling the platform if you’re NB‑curious but not ready to commit to a full year yet, and the emphasis on “Behind the Scenes & Breakdown” style 1‑click apps signals that Higgsfield wants to be the default place to package repeatable NB Pro workflows into creator‑friendly mini‑apps.

Leonardo AI rolled out 8 new NB Pro–powered Blueprints, including Background Change and Custom Relight, giving creators one‑click recipes to intelligently swap environments and lighting while keeping subjects intact. In the Background Change demo, a portrait is cleanly composited from a plain room into a lush jungle, while Custom Relight turns harsh front lighting into a soft golden look without breaking skin or fabric detail. (Blueprints launch thread, Background change demo)

For designers and photographers, these Blueprints act like pre‑tuned control stacks for NB Pro: you upload a shot, pick a blueprint, and NB Pro handles masking, harmonizing colors, and re‑lighting in one pass. That cuts out a lot of manual Photoshop‑style work, and because they’re still NB Pro under the hood, you can expect the same style fidelity you get from raw prompts, but wrapped in a more production‑friendly UX. (Relight demo, Creator reaction)

Multiple long‑form prompts on GeminiApp and Freepik highlight how far NB Pro can go in photorealistic portraiture with explicit camera and lighting control. One beachside fashion prompt specifies everything from crochet cardigan texture and pastel appliqués to Fujifilm GFX vs Sony A7R IV bodies, 50mm vs 85mm primes, f/2.0 aperture, shutter speeds, ISO 160, and even 8K resolution, and the output looks like a real golden‑hour editorial. Beachside fashion prompt

Other recipes cover a vintage Western pin‑up with analog film grain, a matte‑black interior stairwell selfie shot on an 85mm portrait lens, and a low‑angle outdoor portrait with a masked subject against an infinite cerulean sky, again with full exposure and DOF parameters spelled out. (Western editorial prompt, Luxury staircase shot) The pattern is clear: NB Pro responds well when you treat prompts like a shot list plus lighting diagram, not a loose vibe description. Creators are locking in physique, fabrics, accessories, lens choice, color temperature and even rim‑light positions, and NB Pro is hitting those specs tightly enough that you can imagine it as a virtual camera in a real production pipeline. (Low angle portrait prompt, Moody neon room prompt)

Creator tests show Nano Banana Pro can act like a ControlNet: if you feed it canny, depth or soft‑edge guidance images, it will tightly follow structure while still re‑imagining style. One thread walks through taking a distorted portrait, treating it as a sculptural object, then generating both a rotated bust and a photo of two people carrying a wooden version out of a gallery, all while preserving the core stretched‑face geometry. (Controlnet behavior claim, Sculpture sequence prompt)

The same workflow is used to produce an educational diagram explaining LCD polarization and liquid crystals: NB Pro respects arrows, labels, and component layout from the source sketch, then renders a clean, textbook‑grade figure. LCD diagram example This is a big deal for designers and educators, because it means you can drive NB Pro not only with text and photo refs, but also with structural maps—canny edges for precise silhouettes, depth for camera moves, or soft edges for looser compositions—without needing an external ControlNet stack. It effectively turns NB Pro into a multi‑purpose "paint over my guide" engine for storyboards, product diagrams, and concept art.

Creators are starting to use NB Pro not just for hero frames, but for cinematic coverage planning: Techhalla and others share prompts that turn a single reference into a 3×3 grid containing ELS, LS, MS, MCU, CU, ECU, plus low and high angles, all in a consistent style. Cinematic grid prompts Those grids then become structured input for Veo 3.1, where each tile can seed a slightly different camera move or composition, expanding one concept into multiple shots.

David Comfort takes this further by converting a “Shot 8” concept into a full contact sheet via NB Pro and piping that into Veo 3.1, noting that while not every tile translates perfectly, several work well enough to stand as distinct angles in a cut. Veo 3 contact sheet test This builds on earlier NB Pro + Veo 3.1 car‑spot experiments car spot, but shifts the focus from single money shots to coverage—think storyboards, animatics, and pre‑viz where you want nine ways to see the same beat.

Comfort also shares analysis of NB Pro pricing across platforms, warning that flat‑rate deals like Higgsfield’s don’t usually apply to future model versions or API workflows, so if you’re planning a Veo‑plus‑NB pipeline you should sanity‑check how portable your prompts and budgets really are. (Pricing analysis thread, Extra Veo 3.1 test)

Eugenio Fierro posted a detailed take on why NB Pro feels like the new default for image work, along with a prompt structure and a dedicated GPT trained to follow it. His recommended format breaks every request into six parts—Subject, Scene, Action, Visual details, Style, and Consistency—arguing that this removes ambiguity and makes NB Pro’s outputs more stable across iterations and batches. Method thread

He’s already trained a GPT that knows NB Pro’s quirks, real examples, and consistency rules, so instead of free‑writing prompts you can describe intent and have the GPT emit a clean, structured NB Pro prompt that respects lens, lighting, and identity constraints. For creatives, the takeaway is simple: prompt discipline pays off with this model, and it may be worth standardizing your studio’s NB Pro prompts around a shared template so different artists can still generate interchangeable shots. Fierro also contrasts this with emerging "canvas" approaches like Canvas‑to‑Image that unify pose, layout, and identity into a single control image Composition control thread ArXiv paper, framing NB Pro as today’s practical workhorse while hinting at where composition control is heading.

LTXStudio is running a public Retake Challenge where creators download a base video, rewrite the scene with a Retake prompt, and compete for three 6‑month PRO subscriptions worth $750 each challenge post. Following up on initial launch, this turns Retake from a new feature into a structured directing exercise for filmmakers.

LTX shares four retake examples that show how far you can push performance, props, tone, and timing while preserving the original camera move example reel. A detailed step‑by‑step tutorial and downloadable source clip make it easy to test Retake inside a real workflow rather than a toy prompt (retake tutorial, source clip ), and clear T&Cs confirm winners will be picked next week terms summary.

Video platform Nim has added Alibaba Tongyi Lab’s LTX‑2 and LTX‑2 fast models for text‑to‑video and image‑to‑video clips up to about 20 seconds, slotting them alongside its existing generation stack new model reel. For small teams this means they can prototype full short ads or social bumps directly in Nim instead of stitching together multiple tools.

LTX‑2 focuses on higher fidelity while LTX‑2 fast favors speed, giving directors a practical quality/iteration trade‑off for different stages of a campaign new model reel. Both models are already live in the Nim web app and accessible through its production‑ready APIs try now link, so you can start routing scripts or keyframes into them today via the unified dashboard (nim homepage).

AI video app Hailuo has rolled out Sora 2, promising more realistic motion, physics, cinematic visuals, and synced audio in a single text‑to‑video tool, and is offering free Ultra memberships to some users who follow and retweet the launch sora announcement. For storytellers and ad teams this is another high‑end model you can reach without touching raw APIs.

Alongside the new model, power users are calling out Hailuo’s underused endframe system, which lets you lock a specific last frame for more controllable story beats and loopable shots endframe tip. Combined, Sora 2’s motion quality and endframe control make Hailuo a stronger option for quick hero shots, animated explainers, and social promos where you want precise start–end framing without manual compositing.

PixVerse is pushing a 1‑click e‑commerce ad workflow: you feed it a product photo and choose from 20+ pro effect templates, and it returns stylized video ads tuned for social feeds ad template teaser. For small shops and indie brands this replaces a lot of timeline work in Premiere or CapCut with a menu of pre‑designed motion styles.

The system is also exposed via an API aimed at businesses ad template teaser, so agencies can script bulk ad generation and A/B testing instead of hand‑cutting every variation. The same effects live in PixVerse’s consumer app, so you can prototype looks there and then scale winning formats programmatically (pixverse app).

Creators are leaning on Veo 3.1 fast inside GeminiApp for ad‑style hero shots, with a new sample showing a low‑angle Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat drifting through dust as a background explosion hits right on cue drift spot demo. It’s a clean example of Veo handling complex motion, debris, and camera tracking in a single prompt.

Following up on car spot workflow, community experiments point to a workable pattern: storyboard a "shot 8" or similar frame in a still‑image model, arrange a 3×3 grid of coverage (ELS→CU, low/high angles), then push those concepts through Veo 3.1 to get multiple animated angles from one idea contact sheet run. Another test confirms this flow works directly from a phone UI, hinting at on‑the‑go previsualization and spec‑ad creation phone UI demo.