Nostalgia for the Deforum era: one AI video took 4 months and 100+ versions
ART-ficial-Ignorance · reddit · 2026-10-12
An AI video creator looks back fondly on the Deforum/Parseq era: his video for Panda Dub's "Shapes and Shadows" took 4-5 months and 100+ versions, mostly spent syncing camera movement to music.
Highlights:
- Endless keyframe tweaking, overnight renders at terrible resolutions, constant battles against oversharpened, oversaturated outputs
- He embraced model flaws rather than fighting them — deliberately leaving parts unprompted so images drifted into noise and blur, then snapped back to recognizable forms
- The piece evolves from abstract shapes to faces to a climactic pair of clear eyes, as if the model finally "sees"
He muses that feats now done in a few clicks once felt like small miracles held together by keyframes and prayers — and that only 3 years ago, AI art still felt like art.
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