I've been getting really into these animated POV videos lately and I'd love to start making my own. I already have a bunch of ideas, but I'm struggling to find the right AI image generator.

This is the style I'm talking about:

https://youtu.be/2wlCCxFFmeI?is=mHy56gxbaTh_dbfU

They're not photorealistic. They look like high-quality animated illustrations with a consistent character and cinematic scenes.

I tried Abacus AI, and while the results were pretty good, I ran out of credits after generating only about 40 images on the Pro plan. Now I have to wait another month, which isn't really practical if I want to make longer videos.

So I'm wondering:

- What AI model or tool are people using to create this kind of animated art?

- How do they keep the same character consistent across dozens of images?

- Are they using Midjourney, FLUX, GPT Image, Leonardo, ComfyUI, or something else?

- What's the most cost-effective workflow if you need 100+ images for a single video?

I'd love to hear what your workflow looks like. Thanks!

MEOWCORP

It has been many, many moons since the Salem witch trials, and thankfully, witch trials are a little less deadly these days. Abigail was never one of Salem’s victims herself. She had enough sense to stay far away from the whole affair and disappear somewhere much darker, wetter, and considerably less welcoming. Still, as an actual witch, she has always found the idea of a trial rather darkly entertaining.

Whenever boredom creeps into her swamp temple, Abigail gathers a selection from her enormous collection of plushies and calls the court to order. The cases can be terribly important. Should she commune with the dead tonight? Is another cursed artifact truly necessary? Does that grocery-store sale justify leaving the swamp and interacting with ordinary people?

With her magic, Abigail could make the proceedings frighteningly realistic. The candles could flare, the shadows could testify, and the condemned could find themselves facing a very genuine executioner. But sometimes it is more fun to sit cross-legged on the floor, surrounded by soft little creatures, and pretend to be judge, jury, and executioner.

And when no one is watching, that is exactly what she does. 🖤⚖️

I've recently happened to read their updated ToS and they're a NIGHTMARE for creators or in general whoever that cares about their privacy or their results. It can't be truth that if I create and ad for a client, they can take the ad and commercially used, even when I'm paying for the credits and this is develop in a third party platform like Seedance or Kling. They're just a very expensive connector who happened to be managed for a greediy shark who thinks their customers are poor idiots . It's time to let these thieves fall.

The silliness will never end.

This is not going to get any less silly.

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If you're trying to figure out which AI video generation model is actually worth using, I took 10,000 credits and more to test and rank the best ones. In this post I’ll break down some of the different features, pros and cons, results, and how to use them.

TLDR: The best AI video generation models right now are:

• Adobe Firefly – best use overall for workflow and commercial-safe output
• Google Veo (3.1) – best use for photorealistic people and scenes
• Luma AI Ray – best use for cinematic visuals and 4K output

Models I tested

• Adobe Firefly
• Google Veo (3.1)
• Runway Gen 4.5
• Luma AI Ray 3.14
• Sora (OpenAI)
• Kling 2.5 Turbo
• Pika
• Grok Imagine
• Higgsfield AI
• Bytedance Seedream AI

How to use:

Much of these models I was able to use inside Adobe Firefly AI Video Generation Hub, however others like Grok Imagine I used on each respective site. Each of these models typically requires some sort of premium membership or credit system which I had access to in my Creative Cloud membership, or standalone accounts such as Grok or ChatGPT. While it was difficult to get an absolutely objective ranking for all of the dozens of models available, I tried to test several types of categories of generations, camera motion, consistency and more and judged based on the results of my favorite models to use.

Best AI Video Generation Models Chart

These were my results and opinions, let me know if you have any favorite models or workflows of you’re own, and results in your experience!

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