Generative AI · 2023 → 2026

Sami
Guerbouj

Three years following image and video AI,
and what I made with each new tool.

The path

Following the tools, 2023 → 2026

Jul 2023Fireflyin Photoshop · AI fill, frame by frame
Dec 2023Diffusion videovia Kaiber · first AI video
Dec 2024Higgsfield presetsstart + end frames · first control
Oct 2025Nano Banana17 styles from 1 photo
Dec 2025Nano Bananaphone photo → product shot
Apr 2026Seedance 2.0+ Soul ID · my face in a film
Aug 2026Blender + Seedancea 3D blockout directs the camera
Sep 2026Higgsfield presetsnew generation · made to go viral
Oct 2026Kling 4.0 + Claudea film planned to the second
Jul 2023 · Photoshop Generative Fill

Before AI video: one generated image per frame

new tag every frame
my screen recording · 16×
LetsDebaite aftermovie
Dec 2023 · First AI video

Testing the first models available

Open-source diffusion video, used through Kaiber, on my own footage. The results were modest.

my clip → AI
my clip → AI
my clip → AI
Lougha Okhra
My GoPro photo of a freedivermy photo
→
My eye close-up portraitmy photo
→
New Expansion
Dec 2024 · Higgsfield

Presets, start and end frames, first edits

my edit
start → end
Oct 2025 · Nano Banana in the edit

1 photo, 17 looks,
2 seconds

Some of the 17 styles
half speed
Dec 2025 · Nano Banana

Phone photo → product shot

phone
→
phone
→
phone
→
phone
→
+2 more
Apr 2026 · AI live-action film

Thunder
Slayer

An original swordsman with my face,
in a photoreal anime fight.

15 shots31.6 s9 → 6 AI clips
Aug 2026 · Blender × AI

A 3D blockout as motion reference

Blender blockout
AI result · Seedance 2.5
13/13 cuts on time26 ms timing error8.2/10
Sep 2026 · Higgsfield's new presets

Floating Fall

Still a preset, like in 2024, but a new generation:
more stable, more creative, built for the videos
that go viral on social media. So it gets its own page.

Bizerte old portmy street, Bizerte
mephonesunglassescoffee
screen reads “Oh shit, 25 🎂”
Oct 2026 · AI launch film

Moonlight 27

A 50-second film planned to the second.

15/15 shots on time50.0 s2 retries

Thank you.

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