Stand By for Technical Difficulties
If my radical hot take post on AI didn't give it away, I have been delving into co-creating Halfland with advanced Google AI models, such as Veo 3.1, with crucial assistance from Gemini. This doesn't exist. Low-res screengrab of one of the successful Veo animation frames in progress. All week I've been at my desktop absorbing vast technical notes on how it could all work, with the most important question being: whether AI could get anywhere near my vision for a Halfland soulful tactile experience. If the animation or fidelity to what I'd built fell short of how I felt it needed to look, in any way, I was determined to shoot each frame myself. But then something unexpectedly profound happened . After many, many hours of walking through technical hellfires, such as setting up developer status for myself and Google AI Studio and navigating correct billing pipelines, all the while being guided by a conversation window with Gemini, Halfland's Technical Director, constan...
