Dalian Works
Field notes on AI filmmaking and long-form fiction
Notes from a small studio that builds AI films and writes long serial fiction. Essays are translated from Chinese; originals live at hellowocao.com.
Works & series
One-Person AI Filmmaking
一人手搓AI电影 · Production manual
First Avenue第一大道 · Serial novel · production diary
Phoenix Mark凰标 · Serial novel
AI CrosstalkAI相声 · Craft notes
The First Milk Tea of Mid-Autumn中秋第一杯奶茶 · Serial novel
The Portable Knowledge Base可移动知识库 · Systems notes
System Constitution Notes云酷德宪法 · Systems notes
Essays
- AI Film Dubbing and Lip Sync Mismatch: Is It the Audio or the Visual?2026-11-05 · The mismatch is not the fault of the dubbing, nor the fault of the footage—it's an inherent incompatibility between shot duration and line length. A shot is generated …
- Can a Beginner Use Two Computers for an 11-Day AI Film?2026-11-04 · You can use two computers. Three is not a hardware minimum—it's the optimal efficiency point. The source material states that one person with three computers finished in …
- Eleven Days, Three Computers: Five Hidden Pitfalls Behind a 1,000-Shot AI Film2026-11-02 · Let me start with the first pitfall: the idempotency lock in `atctoscene`. When you call `funx.atctoscene` to process a chapter, the first run succeeds, and the …
- Swap Actor, Edit One Row: 93,000-Word Novel Becomes a 2-Hour Film2026-11-02 · "Swap actor, edit one row"—that's the most counterintuitive promise in the CloudKude system, yet it genuinely operates behind the two-hour-and-twenty-minute finished …
- One Begets Two, Two Begets Three: The Recursive Logic of Splitting a Book into Shots2026-11-02 · "One begets two, two begets three, three begets all things." This saying originates from the *Tao Te Ching*, describing the evolutionary path in cosmology from the Way …
- Three Prompt Templates Cover Three Paths for 1,000+ Shots2026-11-02 · Three prompt templates cover a complete AI film generation pipeline. In the CloudKude system, any film—from storyboard to finished cut—necessarily passes through three …
- imgstyle: One Field Switching Four Art Styles2026-11-02 · Style consistency is one of the most stubborn challenges in filmmaking. In traditional animated films, to ensure that a character looks like the same person across …
- Thirty-Seven Characters: Data Modeling Behind a Film2026-11-02 · A two-hour-and-twenty-minute film—how much metadata does it ultimately compress into in a database? For *First Avenue*, the answer is: one book-title code, sixty-nine …
- Parallel Secret: 11 Days, 2-Hour Film via Multi-Machine Task Racing2026-11-02 · Producing a two-hour-and-twenty-minute film in eleven days sounds like a fantasy, but when you distribute the generation of 1,029 shots across three computers for …
- Two-Level Decomposition: 93,000 Characters to 1,029 Shots2026-11-02 · A 93,000-character source novel must undergo two levels of decomposition to become a film: the first level splits the novel into chapters, and the second level splits …
- One Person, Three PCs, Eleven Days: I Made a 2h20m AI Film2026-10-31 · The film is done. From the first shot of the opening credits to the last line of the end credits—two hours, twenty minutes, and twenty-seven seconds. 2560×1440, thirty …
- Title First, Then Structure, Then Storyboard: Six Steps from Novel to Film2026-10-31 · Making an AI film—in the end, I only remembered three sentences.
- Scene Equals Character Plus Location: AI Film's Smallest Unit Is an Addition2026-10-31 · If I could keep only one sentence from this entire film, it would be this: