Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Jonathan Brazeau joins Reid Hoffman and Parth Patil to explain how AI animation and filmmaking are making the one-person studio possible—letting small teams create films that once required 100 people.
From Dungeons & Dragons world-building and an RPG art book illustrated with Stable Diffusion, to a fantasy-western short film made with Midjourney, Luma AI, and Suno, Jonathan breaks down his workflow: character design, storyboarding, mocap, rotoscoping, music, and human curation.
The conversation explores the “cogs and sparks” framework, what a lean AI-native studio can realistically accomplish, how taste separates art from AI slop, and why technology still can’t provide the essential creative spark.
Read Questmaxxing on Substack: reidhoffman.substack.com/p/questmaxxing
For more info on the podcast and transcripts of all the episodes, visit https://www.possible.fm/podcast/
#AI #business #technology #podcast
Jonathan Brazeau joins Reid Hoffman and Parth Patil to explain how AI animation and filmmaking are making the one-person studio possible—letting small teams create films that once required 100 people.
From Dungeons & Dragons world-building and an RPG art book illustrated with Stable Diffusion, to a fantasy-western short film made with Midjourney, Luma AI, and Suno, Jonathan breaks down his workflow: character design, storyboarding, mocap, rotoscoping, music, and human curation.
The conversation explores the “cogs and sparks” framework, what a lean AI-native studio can realistically accomplish, how taste separates art from AI slop, and why technology still can’t provide the essential creative spark.
Read Questmaxxing on Substack: reidhoffman.substack.com/p/questmaxxing
For more info on the podcast and transcripts of all the episodes, visit https://www.possible.fm/podcast/
#AI #business #technology #podcast
