The most astonishing thing is that two years on, the hate speech about neural nets hasn't quietened down. Even though it's still hatred of a hammer. A tool is a tool.

I couldn't put videos like this together before — no time, no money; thoughts went into the drawer, nothing got released, just solid work. And that's despite the fact that I can do all of it single-handed: draw the concepts, model the assets, build the scenes, light them. It's just that doing it myself would take cosmic effort and time.

And now — I can, whoosh. Because I know what I want, I know how to swing a hammer, and I can assemble the whole thing in a couple of days.

And I feel good.

In that sense, artists mostly worry that neural nets are taking their clients — although, broadly speaking, every artist is their own most important client.

And how many possibilities open up from knowing how to swing a neural hammer — not for someone else, for yourself — is hard to grasp.

Never mind that for now this is all more for conveying a vibe, a thought, an atmosphere, rather than a precise guide or a finished work.