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Bubble KittenExternal reference · by @cat_vlog365
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01 / What one week buys you
Build toward a finished video
each week.
Each week gives you five things to work with: a brief, the exact build recipe, final-cut checks, useful feedback, and a record that makes the next one faster.
The build path
Prompt recipe, model options, shot plan, sound notes, and edit checklist.
Useful critique
Specific feedback on the hook, clarity, emotion, craft, originality, and audience fit.
A rights check
A plain-language pass for source material, likeness, music, disclosure, and client use.
Your Rollbook
The decisions, prompt, final cut, audience signal, and one lesson carried into next week.
Use each week's brief and critique to move a video toward a finished cut.No passive-income pitch. No promise of viral views. You get a
repeatable way to finish stronger work more often.
02 / A workflow you can watch
Less guessing.
More finished work.
You don't need to compare every model first. Start with a Codex-ready recipe, swap in your brief, approve the creative calls, and follow the checks to a playable cut.
03 / Finished-work case library
Original casts, finished builds.
Every decision still attached.
For independent creators and small creative teams who want to ship consistently. Watch the work, inspect the decisions, and take a repeatable production process into your next brief.
Featured build / Case 03Reference → original cast → finished collection
Four actions at 1.5× speed. Original pacing below.
Visual comedy with music and effects; no spoken dialogue.
The Bean × Chan brief, reimagined
Beautiful chaos.
A repeatable build.
One chaotic assistant. One calm coordinator. One director who turns every mishap into a moment. Four visual jokes with an original fictional cast, and a production record you can actually inspect.
Follow the useful part: how a reference becomes four concepts, why two paid takes were rejected, and how the selected scenes become branded shorts and a share-ready compilation.
4 + 1shorts + social cut
6paid takes · 4 selected
Members or partners onlyProduction details
Four setups. Four payoffs.
Each short: 12-second scene + 2-second branded ending
01 / The Perfect Take
A swinging microphone. A precise save. Mara gets her moment.
02 / Mara Makes an Entrance
A runaway carpet becomes a perfectly timed entrance.
03 / The Human Reflector
A blocked portrait. A raised umbrella. One awkward crouch.
04 / Think Bigger
A stuck pink inflatable. A wider opening. An undeserved bow.
AI-generated original fictional adults: Elliot, Kai and Mara. These are not portrayals of Mr. Bean, Jackie Chan or other real performers. Web players use 720 × 1280 copies; the production masters were locally upscaled to 1080 × 1920. This is a documented creative experiment, with no measured audience results or virality guarantee.
Case 01 · Single-film depth
Original MakeRoll case study52.7 seconds
Original AI character · Not a testimonial
Meet Lena Hart.
Then inspect the build.
Lena is a fictional adult AI character made for this MakeRoll study. The workflow kept one identity coherent across six scenes, built a 52.7-second vertical story, timed 166 caption cards, and recorded the evidence behind every step.
21finished shots
6identity-locked plates
166timed caption cards
22/22technical gates passed
Character consistency
Six scenes. One fictional identity.
The anchor fixed Lena's face, hair, wardrobe, age, and light.
Every scene prompt repeated those constraints and named the
failures to avoid.
What members can inspect
The result is only page one.
A useful case file shows enough evidence to repeat the method, challenge a decision, or replace one model without rebuilding the whole project.
Production ledger
Known, unknown, and checked.
Models and settings are recorded for every step. The cost breakdown is available to members or partners only.
Character platesBuilt-in image generation6 hashed PNG sourcesMembers or partners only
VoiceMiniMax speech-2.8-hd49.97-second working editMembers or partners only
Talking performanceHeyGen Avatar IV2 identity-checked clipsMembers or partners only
Scene motionSeedance 1 Lite4 clips with recorded seedsMembers or partners only
Edit and deliveryFFmpeg + Pillow1080×1920 master · H.264/AACLocal
Final QAAutomated and visual review22 hard gates · 100-point scorecard100/100
Open one exact motion prompt
Preserve Lena Hart's exact fictional adult identity, wardrobe, hands, lighting, and loft. She slowly rotates both open hands toward the phone camera, flexes her fingers once naturally, then lowers them slightly while keeping eye contact. Subtle breathing, blinking, and hair movement. Keep realistic hand anatomy and gentle smartphone motion. No identity drift, morphing, extra fingers, missing fingers, text, logos, cuts, camera whip, or new objects.
Case 02 · Full campaign system
One character.
Four ideas.
Sixteen finished cuts.
One creator tension became four distinct short-form stories. Every story was then prepared for Reels, TikTok, Shorts, and a native LinkedIn frame. Play all four concepts, compare the hooks, and inspect the release evidence behind the exports.
Play the four concepts ↓
04original story concepts
16platform-adapted exports
12 + 4vertical and native 4:5 cuts
Members or partners onlyProduction details
Four hooks · Four creative territories
Play the campaign here.
These are the four vertical concept masters. Each 9:16 export has a platform-specific end card. LinkedIn also gets a native 4:5 crop and disclosure rail.
The Ad That Admits It
Truth first. The AI disclosure becomes the scroll stop.
A Message From Friday
A voice note from Friday makes finished work feel real.
The Tool Detox
More tools were not the answer. A finish line was.
The Museum of Almost
Beautiful drafts become a reason to finish and publish.
BriefStoryCharacterVoiceMotionEditFeedGate
One story · Four destinations
Every concept was prepared for every feed.
| Concept | TikTok | Reels | Shorts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honest Ad | 9:16 | 9:16 | 9:16 | 4:5 |
| Friday Self | 9:16 | 9:16 | 9:16 | 4:5 |
| Tool Detox | 9:16 | 9:16 | 9:16 | 4:5 |
| Museum of Almost | 9:16 | 9:16 | 9:16 | 4:5 |
Open the production ledger and one exact prompt
She walks slowly and confidently toward camera through the gallery, holding the glowing completed film reel securely. Cool display lights recede behind her while warm daylight from the exit grows. Natural arm swing and fabric movement, subtle cinematic handheld tracking, stable face, hands and reel, no speaking, no lip movement, no new objects, preserve identity and outfit.
04 / See the ceiling
One face.
Then reality gives way.
A strong AI sequence can keep the face, wardrobe, and light coherent while the world changes around them.
The model is only one ingredient. MakeRoll teaches the art direction, references, prompts, selection, editing, and QA that turn raw generations into finished creative.
- Frame 01FamiliarA face you trust
- Frame 02FractureOne object breaks the scene
- Frame 03RevealThe object becomes a world
- Frame 04PayoffShe steps through
MAKE/ROLL STUDY 001 · FOUR-FRAME CONCEPT BOARD
One character. One impossible turn.
The face, wardrobe, and light stay put while a chrome sphere opens into another world. Consistency makes the impossible frame believable.
Famous work · playable here
Four references worth pausing on.
These official embeds show four different outcomes: cinematic speed, personalization at scale, editorial world-building, and generative storytelling.
Cinematic ad · Veo 3.1
Qatar Airways, Above the Clouds
Two finished ads were generated, rendered, edited, and uploaded during one 15-hour flight.
35M+total views · 31% lift in brand searches · official Google
case study
Read the verified case ↗
Open on YouTube ↗
Personalized ad · consented AI likeness
Cadbury's Shah Rukh Khan–My-Ad
A brand ambassador's consented face and voice were adapted into local creative for thousands of small stores.
130Kpersonalized ads · 94M views · 35% sales growth
Read the agency case ↗
Open on YouTube ↗
Hybrid fashion imagery · Midjourney
Vogue China's Into the Wild
Real garments and model photography meet surreal AI environments without losing the editorial point of view.
Yellow PencilD&AD Photography · Stills Compositing
See the award case ↗
Open on YouTube ↗
Generative music video · Sora
Washed Out's The Hardest Part
Paul Trillo built the first official commissioned Sora music video around a continuous, dreamlike visual journey.
451K+official YouTube views · Prix Ars Electronica Golden
Nica
Open the official video ↗
External work belongs to its creators and brands. MakeRoll embeds official sources for study and does not imply endorsement. Metrics were checked 22 Sep 2026 and may change. These are references, not promised member outcomes.
05 / Watch the proof
Three reels.
1.7B+ plays.
Three public Instagram reels reviewed on 22 Sep 2026 had 1,727,992,414 combined plays.
Open each creator’s original post to study the move, then make something the creator couldn’t have made for you.
27 seconds worth studyingPick one, then open the creator’s original.
495.0M plays8.0 sec
495.0M
“Bubble Kitten”
A cute subject changes in an instant. The loop finishes before your brain has time to argue with it.
Original by @cat_vlog365 ↗
1.019B plays9.5 sec
1.019B
“Look but don’t touch”
You know the animal at once. Then one impossible mutation breaks the picture. The hook is the payoff.
Original by @bennettwaisbren ↗
213.2M plays9.0 sec
MakeRoll study image · reel by @stat.us.aiWedding is canceledInstagram offers no embedded player for this reel. The link opens the creator’s original post.Watch on Instagram ↗
213.2M
“Wedding is canceled”
A normal ceremony gets one absurd interruption. Nine seconds later, the whole story is done.
Original by @stat.us.ai ↗The snapshot counts were 1,019,816,251, 495,021,428, and 213,154,735 plays. MakeRoll hosts no copies or stills of these reels. The cover images are MakeRoll's own AI studies, not frames from the reels. Two play in Instagram’s official embed; Instagram offers no embed for Wedding is canceled, so that card opens the creator’s canonical original post. The creators keep the rights. Study the structure, then make your own work.
06 / What the reels do
Viral reels make
one clear move, fast.
The subjects change, but the pattern holds. Start with something people know. Break one rule. Land the ending before the thumb moves.
01 / AI image / Recognition
Start somewhere familiar.
An animal. A wedding. A product desire. The viewer should know the world before the first second ends.
02 / AI image / Impossibility
Break one rule.
Skip the pile of ideas. Pick one visual contradiction that a camera couldn't capture cheaply or safely.
03 / AI image / Payoff
Close the loop fast.
Reveal, reaction, or transformation. Finish in a way that makes a replay feel natural.
FAMILIAR × IMPOSSIBLE × INSTANT PAYOFF = SCROLL STOP
07 / The weekly cut
A weekly brief.
A place to build and share.
The brief sets a direction. Build discussion, selected live critique, and a replay help you make the next cut. You can join midweek and use the current archive immediately.
Find the visual sentence.
Start with an audience tension and a finish line. The prompt comes after the idea.
Generate with constraints.
Pick the model, references, sound, edit, and disclosure plan. Then make the cut.
Make taste visible.
Watch the piece together. Check the hook, clarity, feeling, craft, originality, and audience fit.
Publish. Measure. Learn.
Publish the cut when it is ready, write down the signal, and carry one lesson into Monday.
THE DROP
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THE CUT ROOM
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THE RIGHTS CHECK
A plain checklist for likeness, music, source material, disclosure, and client use.
08 / Your guide inside the room
Learn beside a solo builder
who ships at machine scale.
You are not buying a frozen course. You are getting the judgment of someone who builds AI systems, tests models in production, and turns the useful parts into steps the room can actually follow.
Your working guide
Michael Lip He / Him
Founder of Zovo.one and BeLikeNative
Solo developer ·
Agentic systems builder
Public receipts include 140+ upstream pull requests across GoogleChrome, axios, and NiceHash, plus 55+ security reports across AI and ML infrastructure. Inside MakeRoll, that operating experience becomes current model research, exact build recipes, reusable templates, and direct critique. You spend less time guessing and more time finishing work worth showing.
1,300+public GitHub repositories
108Chrome extensions published
150,000+Chrome Web Store users
33BAI model tokens in 30 days (Aug 2026 audit)
GitHub count checked 5 Oct 2026. Extension and user totals are Michael's own count across his Chrome Web Store listings on 5 Oct 2026. Token count measured from his agent logs across all projects in Aug 2026.
See the whole build.
Prompt, references, settings, model choice, edit decisions, failures, and final result. Nothing important stays hidden.
Use the right stack now.
Model picks and agent workflows are retested as the field moves, then translated into a clear next step for your idea.
Make for the real feed.
Learn from shipped products, audience signals, and more than 1,000 video experiments. The lesson comes from publishing, not theory.
09 / The UGC agentic pipeline
One prompt in.
Four ads out.
Michael Lip typed one plain-language prompt and handed it to five to ten autonomous agents. What came back was four UGC ads promoting bookingwolf.com, and three of them cleared a 100-point quality gate.
The agents scraped the site, cast the AI characters, threw out 10 of 28 stills and shot 12 clips with spoken dialogue. Then the gates took over. Here's the run, stage by stage, with the counts from its own logs.
UGC agentic pipeline · run logShot 23 Sep 2026 · UGC ads promoting bookingwolf.com
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01Build
Research
1site scrapeEvery price in the scripts comes from bookingwolf.com's own homepage copy.
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02Build
Probe
1 + 1test still and clipThe format got proved before any batch spend. Vertical 1080 × 1920, 24 fps, spoken audio and a clean transcript.
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03Build
Cast
5character mastersOne master portrait per character. Each shot's first frame is reference-chained to it for identity.
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04Gate
Stills gate
10 of 28stills rejectedA date stamp, fake status bars, stray arms and face drift got caught here, before any clip was paid for.
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05Build
Motion
12clips with dialogueEach approved still becomes an 8 s vertical clip at 1080p, with the scripted line spoken on camera.
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06Gate
Transcript gate
10 of 12word-perfect on take oneEvery clip is transcribed and scored against its script, with a word error limit of 0.15. Both misses were takes of one line. A 0.746 s mute fixed it.
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07Build
Assembly
85.45 sof finished adsFrame-exact trims, short captions, a hook banner, a price card on the spoken number, an end card and loudness set to -14 LUFS.
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08Gate
100-point gate
3 of 4pass at 95 or more25 checks, re-measured from each delivered file. The gate refuses to score if any detector misses its known-positive control.
09Gate
Blind review
A separate agent scored the first cuts from frames and transcripts and logged 23 timestamped defects. Its ranking matched the gate's, ad for ad.
| Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Review out of 10 | A6.5 | D6 | C5 | B3 |
| Gate out of 100 | A100.00 | D99.57 | C95.00 | B81.86 |
- Budget cap per concept, checked in code before each paid call
- Paid outputs cached on disk and never resubmitted
- Every call written to a spend ledger
- A retake moves the old take aside, so nothing paid is lost
What came out
Four UGC ads.
Three cleared the gate.
Play them here, sound on. The case study carries everything else, from the first prompt and the rejected stills to every gate report and paid call.
Open the full case studySame Guy
Gate 100.00 · review 6.5
Maya is an AI-generated fictional character, not a real traveller, customer or testimonial. Dramatised example. The prices are example figures from bookingwolf.com's homepage copy. MakeRoll didn't check them against Viator or any live booking, so they're not verified.
Balcony
Gate 81.86 · below the pass mark
Interim cut. Clara and Ines are AI-generated fictional characters, not real travellers, customers or testimonials. Booking.com and Booking Wolf appear only on the cards, because the two lines that say them weren't shot. Dramatised example with figures from bookingwolf.com's homepage copy. MakeRoll didn't check them against Booking.com, and they're not verified.
The Upgrade
Gate 95.00 · review 5
Sofia is an AI-generated fictional character, not a real traveller, customer or testimonial. The upgrade is a story device, not a promised benefit. The 20 percent commission line is an unverified claim about Booking.com, taken from Booking Wolf's marketing copy. Dramatised example with figures from bookingwolf.com's homepage copy, not verified.
Twin Experiment
Gate 99.57 · review 6
No experiment was run. The twins are AI-generated fictional characters, not real travellers, customers or testimonials. Dramatised example with figures from bookingwolf.com's homepage copy. MakeRoll didn't check them against Hotels.com, and they're not verified.
Booking Wolf hasn't endorsed this page, and none is implied. The ads haven't run as paid media, and no audience, click or booking data exists for them. Every on-screen person is an AI-generated fictional character. The scripts adapt example prices and customer-quote copy that bookingwolf.com publishes on its homepage (captured 23 Sep 2026), and MakeRoll hasn't verified any price. Booking Wolf, Booking.com, Hotels.com and Viator are trademarks of their respective owners, and MakeRoll isn't affiliated with any of them.
Case 05 · The second run Then the pipeline made eight ads for MakeRoll itself. Four stories, each cut twice with a different 1.5 s opener on one shared body, so every idea is an A/B pair. All eight cleared the gates after two returns. No A/B test has been run yet, so neither opener has a result. Every person in them is an AI-generated fictional character, not a real MakeRoll member, customer or testimonial, and what they say about MakeRoll is a scripted line. Open the MakeRoll ads case MakeRoll ads, case two · Original-cast comedy Then it made four silent comedy shorts for MakeRoll. Three original characters, one orange studio and four visual jokes with no dialogue. Each short is a 12-second generated scene plus a 2-second MakeRoll ending, and a 34-second social cut joins them. The balloon joke took three paid takes. The cost breakdown is available to members or partners only. Elliot, Kai and Mara are AI-generated fictional characters, not portrayals of real performers. The films are upscaled from 720p generation. They haven't been posted, and no audience data exists for them. Open case two MakeRoll ads, case three · AI UGC ads case study Then the owner sent the openings back, so it shot eight more. MakeRoll's owner rejected the second run's openings. The first seconds were silent, the dry humour didn't land and it looked staged. The third run opens four new stories on a glamorous, high-energy creator who's already talking by 0.5 s, with more lines and more camera angles. All eight cleared the gates, four of them after one round of fixes. No A/B test has been run yet. Every person in them is an AI-generated fictional character, not a real MakeRoll member, customer or testimonial. Their lines about MakeRoll are scripted, and the ads were made before MakeRoll's first weekly brief. Open case three
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11 / Common questions
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You won't get a promise of passive income or a million-view clip. You will get a reason to finish more work and a room that helps you see it clearly.
Is MakeRoll another AI tool course?
No. Tools change too fast for a static course to stay useful. Each week gives you a current brief, a bounded build, critique, a place to share finished work, and a record of what happened.
Do I need filmmaking experience?
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Riffkit's 2026 dataset put the median AI TikTok at 418 views, while each featured Instagram reel exceeded 213 million plays.
The club teaches structure, repetition, and judgment so each attempt has a better reason to exist.
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