The hard parts for me were describing bugs that weren't visual and the more subjective stuff, e.g. where memories should go, pacing, what felt confusing, whether something was actually fun, etc. I couldn't have built this without AI.
Regarding Microsoft: a little. It's noncommercial, and I have a credits/disclaimer screen that makes it clear it's an unofficial fan project and that the Halo assets belong to their respective owners. But obviously that doesn't mean I own or have a license to the Guardian assets. If Microsoft/Halo Studios asked me to take it down or change something, I would.
I've never had a personal website, and I didn't want to make a resume/portfolio site, so I rebuilt Guardian and hid a treasure hunt through my life inside it.You start in the Halo 3 main menu, go through the lobby, spawn in the map, and explore. There are photos, stories, quests, mini-games, and Easter eggs scattered around. Movement is via WASD and mouse, no signup.Guardian was my third place...
https://magichour.ai/products/audio-to-video
LTX-2 is an open-source diffusion model that combines video and audio.Visually it's not at the level of Seedance 2.0, Veo 3.1, or Sora 2, but it’s open-weights, so anyone can play with it.I wanted to see how good it is at generating video from just audio.Off-the-shelf, it's not very good, but I found that if you run the audio through Gemini to generate a prompt, then feed that into LTX-2, in...
A few months ago I started using AI tools to make short-form-videos. I found that most tools were complicated, expensive, and generated low-quality videos. That's why I built Magic Hour. Enjoy.
Over Christmas break, I wanted to make an AI generated music video. I started going into the rabbit hole of tools like Video Killed The Radio Star, Deforum, and Warpfusion.What I learned was that these tools had a high learning curve. They required knowledge of Python notebooks, expensive compute, and knowledge of all of the settings and how to manipulate them.What I wanted was a cheaper,...