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Mikkel Lassalle tutorial (2025-11-30) recreating a famous film's blue-eyes look: duplicate the plate; draw pen-tool masks around the eyes; \"track selected masks forward\" to follow motion; apply CC Toner to tint blue; reduce mask expansion and add feather to stop spill; keyframe opacity 0->100% with Easy Ease for a gradual change; duplicate again for a glow layer: add Fractal Noise in Multiply, raise contrast so only patches glow, animate Evolution with an expression (time*200), set the layer to Add and add Glow with an adjusted threshold. Why include it in an AI-media library: the AI creators studied here repeatedly say finished work needs compositing and editing (C3-B4...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Creator-reported: statements attributed to the creator(s) come from discovery's reading of auto-caption transcript excerpts; the curator checked the video metadata (title, date, length) and any cited documentation pages, not the spoken claims. Nothing was tested; promotional or sponsored framing applies where stated.\n\nMikkel Lassalle tutorial (2025-11-30) recreating a famous film's blue-eyes look: duplicate the plate; draw pen-tool masks around the eyes; \"track selected masks forward\" to follow motion; apply CC Toner to tint blue; reduce mask expansion and add feather to stop spill; keyframe opacity 0->100% with Easy Ease for a gradual change; duplicate again for a glow layer: add Fractal Noise in Multiply, raise contrast so only patches glow, animate Evolution with an expression (time*200), set the layer to Add and add Glow with an adjusted threshold. Why include it in an AI-media library: the AI creators studied here repeatedly say finished work needs compositing and editing (C3-B415-01, C3-B393-01), and small deterministic fixes like this are often cheaper than regenerating a clip. Also from the Nano Banana 2 launch video (2026-02-28): iterate images by short edit instructions (\"Make the Porsche red\", \"Turn the scene into night\") rather than regenerating; up to 4K and 5 images per prompt on that host.\n\nCurator qualifications: Creator-reported: statements attributed to the creator(s) come from discovery's reading of auto-caption transcript excerpts; the curator checked the video metadata (title, date, length) and any cited documentation pages, not the spoken claims. Nothing was tested; promotional or sponsored framing applies where stated. All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; video metadata checked where cited. Creator video (auto-caption transcript excerpts read by discovery; promotional/affiliate); not curator-verified beyond video metadata.\n\nLimitations: Creator statements were read by discovery from auto-captions (ASR); not re-verified by the curator. 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