Proud to present my 'Paladin' Cinematic for @OSP_TD ✅ Used ChatGPT for Images. ✅ Converted to Video with @grok and @Kling_ai ✅ Increased resolution with Astra from @topazlabs ✅ Edited in @capcutapp ✅ @Artlist_io for all music and sound effects. Took me around 16 hours from start to finish. 📘Some lore around the Paladins in our game: ❤️‍🩹The Children of the Light❤️‍🩹 When the Rippings began, humanity didn't just lose battles. We lost entire worlds. Cities vanished overnight. Families were torn from reality. Millions found themselves stranded in a place that should never have existed... The In-Between. 🩺 Most militaries were built to defend borders. The Children of the Light were built to cross them. Where others established front lines... The Children of the Light established hospitals. Where others counted enemy casualties... They counted survivors. Their mission has always been simple: Bring people home. 🩺 Every Paladin is a volunteer. Not because they're fearless. But because they believe that every life is worth risking their own for. They enter collapsing worlds, active portals, and impossible battlefields knowing they may never return. Because someone has to go. 🩺 The white armor isn't ceremonial. It's a promise. Across hundreds of shattered worlds, survivors have learned that when the white cloaks appear... Hope has arrived. 🩺 The Sanctus Aequor isn't a battleship. It's a flying city dedicated to saving lives. A humanitarian command ship. A hospital. A refugee processing center. A logistics hub. A symbol that humanity has not abandoned those trapped beyond the Veil. 🩺 Paladins don't deploy alone. They arrive with doctors. Engineers. Search and rescue teams. Disciples. Field hospitals. Medical supplies. Everything needed to keep a civilization alive on a fragment of a broken world. 🩺 They fight when they must. But fighting is never the mission. Protect civilians. Evacuate survivors. Hold the line. Buy one more minute. Save one more life. 🩺 Every rescue operation tells the same story. The enemy measures victory by territory. The Children of the Light measure victory by the number of people they bring home. 🩺 The Oath of the Children of the Light: "We do not seek glory." "We do not seek vengeance." "We seek the lost." "We protect the innocent." "We leave no one behind." 🩺 This is the world of Operation Safe Place: Soulfall. A universe where heroes aren't remembered for the enemies they defeated... They're remembered for the lives they saved. When the world falls... the Paladins arrive.

With some proper budget? I'll make a full length feature film for sure!

Made this fun AI cinematic with @capcutapp and @veo3gemini for our Viridaxus level. What excites us on many levels is the fact that players will be able to make incredible content for our universe with AI! You can see the gameplay in the shared post.

Three of us have done all of this, but we have arrived at that point where we really need your help! Read this thread, watch the videos with sound on, and help us keep building our incredible gaming universe in Web3. We can finish the first version of our game for $50k. We have been working hard to get to this point for three years. In this thread you will see cinematics made with AI, and gameplay in Unreal Engine. This post is me asking every friend that we have made in our building journey to help us by tagging chains, grants, angel investors, anyone who might be able to help us make our dream come true. Just share it out, tag them, and say 'you need to take a look at what these guys are building'.

Made this in under 5 minutes with @grok Visualizing ideas for the fauna on Cryovar, one of the biomes in our game.

Success is inevitable, but I like to share my emotional state for other builders who might go through similar stuff while they build. It is so damned difficult building in Web3. Ecosystem building capital has been plundered by incompetent builders and scammers, so those of us building real projects are punished for the sins of those who came before. My mental health is taking shot after shot. The easy out would be to simply head to Steam, strip out all Web3 and AI, and do a Kickstarter . But I have this optimistic delusion that NFT integration can change lives. I think I have another few months of emotional drive in me to keep building at this pace without financial backing, The irony is that our entire ecosystem needs less than 100k to finish and we hear every day about how other projects raised millions and built nothing. We keep building, but it takes more grit than an X post can adequately explain!

Getting to a place where we can start looking at serious ingame Cinematics with AI. But what I am really after is this level of procedural ingame AI with 'instinctual' responses from Boss NPCs. I want this thing to know your player tag and taunt you while you fight it.

Building these active Boss cards with AI. Each one will have idle animation, attack animation, death animation etc. It is crazy how powerful AI is for manifesting whatever crazy thing exists in our imaginations!