The bi-weekly report that helps you understand and implement everything happening in generative image, video and AI.
In today’s newsletter, we’ll cover:
How to recreate the viral behind-the-scenes movie scene format
A product placement hack + the definitive Nano Banana Pro guide
Irreverent AI content from a high ranking government official
The latest Gen AI news headlines, the Yapper app launch 🚨
The Feed
We figure out what’s going viral so that you don’t have to.
Behind-the-scenes movie content is everywhere. Here’s the playbook:
Pick a famous still from a movie.
This example is from a still The Return of the Jedi.
Upload your still and select Nano Banana Pro in the “Create Image” feature on Yapper to generate the behind-the-scenes environment.
Prompt Used: Zoom out to a medium and show me the behind-the-scenes reality of how this is being shot and facilitated.
Use “Video Gen” to reveal how the magic is made!
Prompt Used (Veo 3.1): The characters being filmed stand nervously and the film crew does their job and shoots the scene.
Tips / Tricks
Generating assets for your product just got WAY easier. Product Placement is a new automated feature on Yapper that leverages Nano Banana Pro to instantly generate 8+ diverse, professional-grade marketing images. Upload one or two photos of your product, describe it in a brief sentence (optional), and profit off the results. Below is the first result I got from one photo of a water bottle, described only as “water bottle.”
Google AI Studio’s X account posted the most comprehensive guide to Nano Banana Pro (the best image generation model) on the internet. While I encourage all readers who are interested in image generation to give it a read in full, here are 5 useful tips and takeaways from the post that you can implement now:
Use full sentences with proper grammar. If your prompt would be intelligible to a human artist, you can be sure that the model will know what to do.
Specific prompts yield specific results. “Instead of ‘a woman’, say ‘a sophisticated elderly woman wearing a vintage chanel-style suit.’”
Lock individual elements while editing. For example, if you want to just change the position of someone’s body, it’s helpful to say “keep the person’s facial features and clothes exactly the same,” in addition to the rest of your prompt.
Google search, detailed understanding of physics, and advanced reasoning are embedded in the model. Expect it to know what’s current, how it works, and to be able to fill in whatever gaps you omit.
The model follows instructions that are on the input images. See the below!
Creator Spotlight
@MaverickDarby has been going viral on X, most recently for a series of inflammatory Franklin book cover repurposes. Pete Hegseth, the United States Secretary of War, even reposted one. This has kicked off a trend of Franklin covers. Make your own with the “Create Image” tool on Yapper (mine is on the right).
credit for the original image
Nano Banana Pro prompt:
“make a Franklin book cover titled ‘Franklin Uses Yapper’, about him using the yapper ai app”
That said, his bread and butter is and has always been irreverent deepfakes. In the first example below, he recreates The Council of Elrond (rebranded “Elonrond”) with right-wing media personalities. In the second, he breaks the news on Trump’s plan to protect the border with resurrected dire wolves. Albert Einstein was likely referring to @MaverickDarby when he famously quoted “the only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has its limits.”
The Lab Report
Beginning with two massive Yapper updates…
Yapper AI is LIVE on the app store as of last week. Download it today and generate AI media on your mobile device. Reply to this email with a screenshot of your in-app profile, and I’ll add free credits to your account.
Black Forest Labs dropped Flux 2 Pro last week, and it’s the only current image generation model that’s widely considered to be competitive with Nano Banana Pro. This model is particularly elite for aesthetics, style and color (it recognizes hex codes). If you’re a creative looking to beautify your work, you should try out Flux 2 Pro on Yapper today. Shoutout to the BFL team, who have at this point totally superseded the significant marketing hurdle of being named after a type of ham.
Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser warns that AI models in video game production will lead to a creative breakdown as models copy themselves. While I’d normally criticize this kind of take, Dan Houser is notoriously an expert on creative breakdowns, having failed to create GTA VI for the last 12 years and counting.
Suno has partnered with Warner Brothers to “build the future of interactive music,” simultaneously settling the lawsuit the studio had brought against them. Given that the age old adage usually goes “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” I’ve got to hand it to Warner Brothers for their innovative twist: beat them down with litigation until they are forced to join you.
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