One tiny vampire bat, one reference image, and up to 20 prompt revisions later, I learned that great AI storytelling has less to do with perfect generations and more to do with creating characters people want to see again.

I’ve been playing with Runway’s Seedance 2.0 model, and I had a realization: I could try to explain how it works… or I could just make a bunch of tiny, slightly unhinged, very aesthetic 15-second films and let you vibe.

Sora didn’t fail. It just stopped being public. So where did it go… and what did it learn while we were all playing with it?