After many, many attempts at making AI-generated videos about @Splinterlands, I recently landed on some concepts that I felt started to click. The lightbulb, oddly, came from the concept of SHORTS. I was looking at Gossip Goblin's content (an AWESOME content creator, look him up on YouTube) and it inspired me to try to do the same for Splinterlands characters. I made up Vinnie the Archivist and then his assistant Mags, gave them personalities and backstories, and started producing scripts. My first few lore (aka "Splinterlands Codex") videos took a long time to make however. I'm a little OCD you see.
Then while doing some research on how to grow my channel, I came across a suggestion that said to do 1 video each day and focus on making it only 30 seconds. Thirty seconds to tell a card's lore? Seemed impossible at first, but then when I looked at my first few videos' watch times I saw people were dropping off at the 30 second mark!
So I decided to make a format for these that would combine 1-2 lore/card facts and 1-2 jokes - that's it, nothing more - and I'd see if these could be put into scripts. And then... the ideas came pouring in. I was actually genuinely surprised at how much could be told in just 15-20 seconds, ensuring the viewer can be entertained and (hopefully) doesn't get a chance to become bored.
And so "Vinnie's Short Shorts" were born. Another great piece of advice I read about was having clear, repeatable "hooks" in my videos, hence the introduction where Vinnie announces it's time for short shorts...
I've published 3 short shorts so far, and have 2 more ready to publish and several more scripts I'll be working on in the next few days. My goal is to publish 1-2 shorts every day and to try my best to get eyeballs and grow the channel's audience. If I can build up this channel, it can be a hopefully become a funnel for new eyeballs into Splinterlands.
So if you're reading this and want to support this project, please check out my YouTube channel, subscribe, like the videos, and share them wherever you can :)
If you haven't yet checked out Vinnie's first three short shorts, here they are:
The tools I used for each of these include Midjourney for images/videos, Dzine for lip sync, Nano Banana for image consistency, Suno for music, ElevenLabs for voices and sounds, and Davinci Resolve to clip it all together. I also use OpenArt as an alternative "all-in-one" AI suite though I find it's considerably worse than Dzine at the lip-syncing part, which is essential for me to continue building Vinnie's and Mags' characters.
As I mentioned above, I have several more on the way and plenty more ideas that I plan to publish. Hope you find these entertaining and if you have ANY feedback (on the videos themselves or on how to grow my audience), please let me know!
