Harry Potter By Balenciaga | Step by Step Tutorial
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as a process example of how such AI-generated videos are made, including on a phone.
What it is
A step-by-step tutorial on making a Harry Potter by Balenciaga style AI video, using tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney and Eleven Labs for script, images and voices.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2023 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Cites jareklupinski · 2023-04 · on “Computer History by Balenciaga”
Without even leaving the phone: > "I'm more comfortable doing this on my phone" [this video] was kind of blown away by that thought, having had the pleasure of using Premiere-type suites on a desktop computer just to edit a simple timelapse
Cites tigger0jk · 2024-11 · on “Show HN: Midjourney for Language Learning Videos”
Patrick here. Yeah there's a lot of AI video out there. There are also plenty that are more story-driven better ones nowadays. [LINK] None of these are end-to-end automated though. Even for a video without a story like the Harry Potter Balenciaga style ones, there's a lot of manual cherry-picking and manual editing going on. Here's a process example for that type of content that looks quite automateable [this video] - but both 1. No one _has_ automated this and 2. It's much more difficult than it looks because of the manual cherry-picking part, and the story, character/enivornment consistency, etc. I am really looking for another instance of "type text, get story video". I do think it's a bold cl
Cites adolph · 2025-06 · on “A Complete Guide to Meta Prompting”
One of the original AI-whoah moments was that italian fashion/harry potter mashup [0]. Some time after it came a "making of" video which outlined how they used ChatGPT to prompt Midjourney to create the images [1]. To me, this established using generative systems to create prompts for other generative as an effective pattern for using such systems. 0. [LINK] 1. [this video]