Yo, so I just dropped a short AI film to celebrate Vietnam’s National Day on September 2, 2025. Check it out here: YouTube Short. This project was mad fun, totally random, and just kinda popped up outta nowhere. I wasn’t planning to make an AI film at first, cause let’s be real, these things take a ton of effort, time, and yeah, they burn through credits and cash like crazy. But once I got into it, I was hooked, and it turned out to be a dope experience.
Realistic propaganda illustration style inspired from Vietnam’s propaganda art.
How It Started
This wasn’t some big master plan. It was more like, “Yo, let’s do something cool for National Day, 9:16 format, social friend-ly” AI films are no joke, they’re time consuming, and you gotta experiment a lot to get stuff right. The toughest part? Transitions. Getting them smooth and logical was a real challenge. I messed around with a bunch of techniques: dolly in out, match cuts, audio driven transitions, motion based switches, and even some shape and object transitions. It was a grind, but super fun, and I learned a ton about what each AI tool can and can’t do. Plus, I picked up some slick tricks along the way that I’ll definitely use again.
I went all in with a mix of tools to pull this off. Here’s the lineup: Gemini and Grok for generating ideas and crafting prompts. Krea, Kling, and Higgfields for setting up style frames, art direction, and animation. I love Runway, but it’s too expensive to experiment. Topaz and Photoshop for polishing up visuals. Capcut for stitching everything together, adding sound design, and throwing in some VFX.
The Result
I’m pretty stoked with how it turned out. This is my longest AI film yet, 45 seconds, which might not sound like much, but trust me, it’s a beast to pull off with AI. It drained all my credits for the month, but honestly? Totally worth it. The transitions came out smooth, the visuals hit the vibe I was going for, and the sound design tied it all together. I’m hyped to keep experimenting with AI filmmaking after this.
When I was editing the film, celebrating my country’s peace, I was thinking about wars that are happening around the world right now—Israel-Hamas, Ukraine-Russia, Pakistan-India, Myanmar civil conflicts…
We’re a country that’s spent much of our history at war, and it’s been rough. We love peace, and I hope there are no wars out there—it would be great, like Louis Armstrong sang in “What a Wonderful World”. War should stay in video games, bro.