Blender Overpainting vs Direct Rendering in Blender

Overpainting a Blender render with a video model gave me less control than I had hoped, so I tried doing the big space shots entirely in Blender.

November 1, 2026 · 2 min

How a Blender Blockout Works

A short look at how a scene gets blocked out in Blender, with scratch dialogue, capsule actors and one camera per shot, before any video model is asked to paint it.

October 13, 2026 · 2 min

Cold Open - Rough Cut (Spoilers!)

A first rough cut of the cold open, three hundred years before the main story, inside the Purple Tube on the day it died.

October 13, 2026 · 2 min

New Title, Music, and Turnarounds.

The film got its real title today, and I spent the rest of the day writing and recording the song it comes from.

August 24, 2026 · 1 min

Matsana and the Letter

A full day of screenplay work, weaving Matsana deeper into the story and turning montages into real scenes.

August 7, 2026 · 1 min

The First Commit

Getting the initial screenplay, characters, and terminology into a repo for the first time.

August 6, 2026 · 3 min

The First Assets

What is OpenArt exactly?

August 3, 2026 · 1 min

The First Screen Test

Trying out this new-fangled AI movie-making thingummy.

August 3, 2026 · 1 min

The First Screenplay

Can Claude turn my bad story into a screenplay?

August 2, 2026 · 2 min

The First Draft

Writing down the basic story and backstory.

July 4, 2024 · 1 min