00:00Google's Nano Banana just changed AI film making forever
00:02This is the tool you've been searching for to take your projects to the next level
00:07Imagine uploading a single image and spinning it into endless camera angles and scene variations, all with solid character and style consistency
00:16That's what Nano Banana does
00:19This is an absolute gamecher for AI creators
00:21And if you're not using it right now, you're already falling behind
00:26I'm Jack
00:26I've been a VFX artist in the advertising industry for over a decade now, and I've worked for many of the biggest brands on the planet
00:35Today, I'm revealing how you can use Google's Nano Banana for completely free
00:39How you can take a single starting image to build out an entire consistent scene
00:44And then I'll even show you how you can animate these images for completely free as well
00:48This is just mind-blowing
00:51And of course, guys, if you do enjoy today's content, make sure to whack a like on there for me, consider subscribing, and of course, ring that bell notification icon
00:57Let's get straight into it
01:00So, there are a lot of subscribed AI platforms right now trying to get your business to get you to pay to use their product and therefore access Nano Banana
01:08You don't need to do this
01:11You can do it for free
01:12Now, I had some strange issues first accessing this
01:15So, I'd suggest you go up and open a incognito window
01:16And then you just want to type in lmarina.ai
01:22It's going to verify that you're a human and accept cookies
01:24And straight away, you are in
01:27You want to go right up to the top here and select direct chat
01:29You then want to go to the bottom and select generate images
01:33And already it's put it on Gemini 2.5 flash image preview, which is Nano Banana
01:39And this has been confirmed within the official LM Arena Discord
01:44And just like that, you have free access to Nano Banana
01:46no subscription
01:49You don't have to go through a different website or anything complicated like that
01:52Boom
01:52You're in
01:54Now, after a certain amount of generations, you're going to hit a wall and it's going to tell you that you can't generate anymore until x amount of time later
02:00And I feel like I'm going to get in a bit of trouble for this somewhere down the line
02:04But if you just open a new incognito window, you can just keep going like infinitely
02:08I've tested this
02:11I've been on Nano Banana for hours today
02:13I've generated so many images and never hit a wall
02:16and I haven't spent a penny
02:18So, let me just show you the power of this tool and how many creative opportunities it really does open up
02:23I'm going to upload this image which I created with Midjourney, which is me standing next to an active volcano
02:31And for starters, let's just try something like change the shot to nighttime
02:36You see, we just have to agree to the terms here, and it's going to start generating our nighttime variation of this shot
02:42Now, sometimes this can bug out
02:44If it keeps hitting an error on the 3 to 4 second mark, there's probably something that Google doesn't like about your prompter
02:52Just go in there and try to reword it
02:54Try to change the format of your sentence
02:56Just try to think what might be upsetting the image generator and then just hit rerun
03:03After a while, it's going to sort itself out and you'll get your image back
03:05And here we have our nighttime variation of the volcano scene
03:10Let's go ahead and get this downloaded by clicking this little icon here and just hitting save
03:17And the consistency you get back from Nano Banana when you're asking it to make such a fundamental change to the shot and is still managing to keep the expression, the character looking consistent, even the clothing is crazy
03:30And of course, this opens up endless creative opportunities
03:33That was just a fun kind of demo of how we can use Nano Banana
03:37Let's talk about things in a more practical sense where we can take this opening shot and actually build a scene from it using nano banana
03:43Now I approach AI film making in different stages and I think all the best AI videos stem from a single great generated AI image
03:52So, what I think is going to be like the meta way to use Nano Banana is to take a single starting frame like our volcano one here and use Nano Banana to build out your scene by creating different camera angles for you and different actions, but still keeping the style, the lighting, the environment, and your character consistent
04:14You can essentially flesh out a storyboard
04:16You can go shot by shot and then take those still frames into an AI video generator to animate them
04:23And like I say, stick around until the end of the video because I'm going to show you how you can animate your AI images for completely free as well
04:29So, I'm going to type in over the shoulder shot from behind the man
04:35And you can imagine that we're starting to flesh out a short film essentially
04:41Now, if you were trying to achieve this with midjourney, you would probably struggle with character consistency
04:47But look at that
04:50That's just crazy to me
04:50This feels like it is part of the same scene
04:55It's part of the same world
04:55Everything feels consistent
04:57And if things feel inconsistent, it really does break that kind of immersion that you get when you're trying to watch a short film
05:04And I think using Nano Banana in this way is going to get rid of that problem
05:08So, we have, for instance, our starting shot
05:12Then we could cut over to this shot here
05:14Let's just drop the starting image back in again
05:16And I want to say extreme closeup
05:20Let's go actually extreme close-up on the man's glasses
05:22We can see the active volcano reflected in their lenses
05:32So actually you can see it has struggled here
05:35This I'm not even kidding is the first time I've got back a semi bad result from Nano Banana
05:39So, what we're going to do, I'm just going to copy this same prompt, drop it in here, and I want to specify the type of glasses I have
05:47So, let's say gold wireframe glasses, and we'll just drop in that same starting image again and run that
05:57Okay, that's a little bit better
05:59I think that's definitely usable
06:00Again, you can always hit retry and we'll see what we get on a second run
06:05Again, that's pretty cool
06:05A little bit more variation in the reflection there
06:09And I just want to test something out here because I haven't actually tried this before
06:13Let's drop the starting image in
06:14And I want to say drone shot from above
06:16Looking down on the vast volcanic scene
06:24I'm just going to type in as well at the end here dramatic and cinematic
06:29And we'll hit run on that
06:29Okay, this is pretty cool, but we can't see us in the scene
06:33What I will say, however, is it does look very consistent in terms of the environment, the lighting, and the color palette
06:39So, this would definitely still work in the context of a short AI film
06:44Let's just try again to be a little bit more specific
06:46So, looking down on the vast volcanic scene and the man kneeling next to the active volcano
06:57Let's drop in our same starting image again
07:00And let's see if this works
07:03So, actually, it's kind of failed on giving us that top down perspective, but it's still giving us a really nice variation of the original shot itself
07:13So, I'm not mad at this
07:13Like, you could still use it
07:15It's kind of like a happy accident, right? I just want to try drop this shot in here now
07:19So, this is me in like a windbreaker stood with a water fountain behind me
07:24It's kind of got a cool streetear vibe
07:26And I want to say something like wide establishing shot
07:32The bearded man is dwarfed by the vast urban environment
07:39You can imagine, for example, that we're putting together an advert for a streetear brand
07:43And again, actually, it struggled with this
07:46So, I want to rerun this
07:48Kind of ironic that the first issues I've had with Nano Banana have been when I've hit record
07:54really strange how it's keeping my pose and position exactly the same, which it hasn't done on any of our other attempts with the volcano scene, and it's just sort of sticking us on top of this different environment
08:05I want to go ahead and hit new chat just to test it out
08:09It seems like it's been a bit strange and buggy
08:10Let's see if we can get some better results in a new chat, a clean slate
08:14So, add back in our start frame and let's just try something really simple
08:19Drone shot from above, dramatic, and cinematic
08:21All right
08:21So now we are starting to get somewhere
08:23I look consistent
08:25My outfit's consistent
08:28The environment itself is consistent
08:30But it successfully changed my pose and yet everything tonally remains the same
08:36Try a slight variation again
08:36Let's just try drone shot from 100 ft in the sky looking down on the bearded man
08:44be a little bit more specific with the height and the distance between the camera and our subject
08:52All right, so it's not 100 ft in the sky, but this is still a really great result
08:57Again, the pose is really quite different from our starting frame, right? But this still really, really does look like me
09:05Let's just pop in our starting frame again and just say the bearded man is leaning up against a graffitied wall and just run that prompt and see what we get back here
09:18Again, I'm kind of trying to imagine that we're building out a advert for a streetear brand
09:25So, we want the environments to remain urban but just have some variation in terms of camera angles and poses
09:31And again, we have got back a really incredible result
09:34It still looks like me and it's still the same outfit
09:40Try something a little bit more out there now
09:42Let's try the exact same start frame, but let's say the bearded man is sat on a lone wooden chair in the middle of a vast green forest
09:52And we'll put on the end as well dramatic cinematic cuz that seemed to be working quite nicely for us
10:02So, you know, maybe we're building out a lookbook for a brand, for example
10:07All we really had to pay for was midjourney to make our starting frame, and then we're just utilizing Nano Banana to build out our story
10:16But again, this is a really incredible result
10:19I just want to rerun this to see if we get a slight variation
10:22Honestly, it is trial and error
10:25You guys know how it is
10:25If you're after something quite specific, you probably want to get a bit more wordy with your prompt
10:30Really, these prompts are really short compared to what I would usually put in
10:34Now, I don't love that result
10:36So, we'll retry again
10:38Obviously, a little bit more of a stranger, surreal thing going on here
10:43I'm wondering if it's the end bit, the dramatic and cinematic that's throwing it off
10:47This is pretty cool
10:47I actually quite like that
10:49I'm definitely feeling the cinematic vibe, and it does look like me
10:53As a quick experiment, I want to chuck in that start frame again
10:56I just want to take the dramatic and cinematic off the end there and see if we get a better result
11:01Maybe for whatever reason that's throwing it off
11:04And actually, yeah, I do think that is a better result
11:07So maybe adding style references like that at the end causes some issues
11:11And again, this is a pretty nice result
11:14It still looks and feels like me and it looks like I am really within that environment
11:19It's not some like dodgy Photoshop comp
11:20This feels lived in
11:24Maybe we could have some fun with our video thumbnail here as well
11:29Let's just pull that in
11:29And we'll just try something like the man is holding a kitten instead of a banana
11:34And just look at that
11:38That is crazy
11:38It's even thought to put a glowing effect on our kitten
11:43This is completely seamless
11:43I still look incredibly consistent to the starting image
11:49The cat feels stylistically the same
11:51like there's no disconnect between this new element that we've just asked Nano Banana to put into our image
11:58It feels like it was always there
12:00And that's the real magical thing about this tool, I think
12:02We'll bring it back into LaMarina and we'll say put the man and the cat into a cozy cat cafe environment
12:13Okay, so we've actually hit our limit now
12:16It's telling us we need to wait about an hour to start generating again
12:19However, let me just close down the incognito window
12:22I will make a new incognito window and head over to LM Marina
12:27It's going to verify again
12:30Accept cookies
12:30Go to the top direct chat
12:33Hit generate images
12:33It's going to put us straight onto Nano Banana again
12:37Going to drop our image of me holding the glowing cat
12:39Pretty sure that's the same prompt
12:41Let's just hit run
12:43We have to agree
12:43And yeah, I think this hack works
12:46kind of feel bad for sharing this, but you know, you guys are my subscribers
12:50I feel like we have to share the love, right? Cheeky little hack
12:54Maybe it won't work forever
12:54Maybe it will
12:55And just look at that, man
12:58Crazy
12:58Let's just hit rerun again
12:58You can really get some wild results from this
13:03But I really want you guys to imagine fleshing out your plots in like a story board and then animating each of those images to build out a film
13:09Again, another really great generation
13:12the power of this tool, it kind of just blows my mind every single time we hit generate, to be honest
13:19All right, so as promised guys, if you do want to get your free AI image generations, you're going to have to go through Discord
13:26I'm going to put a link for this Discord in the description if you want to click on that
13:32And it is actually the LM Arena Discord
13:35You want to click in and go to one of these video arenas
13:37And once you're inside, you want to hit slash and go image to video
13:41I want to drop in our nighttime volcano scene here
13:44And there's a little section where it allows you to put in a prompt
13:48And let's go for something like shaky handheld device filming
13:55The man kneels confidently next to the active volcano as it violently erupts
14:06We go ahead and hit return
14:06And it's going to give us a little message
14:10We need to wait about 10 minutes to get our generation back
14:12So, the way the LM Marina works, guys, is it's collecting all of this data to try to prove which AI tools are the best, and that results in a leaderboard
14:21And when it comes to this Discord, you're going to get two generations back using random video models
14:28So, it really is a lucky dip
14:30You might get some good generations, you might get some really bad ones as well
14:34But if you do join this community, I really do encourage you guys to vote on which generation was better because of course that's how Ella Marina colleate their data and form the leaderboards
14:44And actually that was really quite quick
14:45So we've got back two generations here
14:47Let's see if we've got lucky with the random models that it's assigned us
14:52First generation here
14:52This looks really, really great to me
14:54And you'll notice at the end that you do get this kind of tag plugging the Discord
14:58Like I always say, guys, you can pull this into an editor like Cap Cut or Premiere Pro and just cut off this last section
15:06No one would ever know that you got this AI video for free
15:11Let's look at the second generation
15:13Don't like it as much
15:13Some of the explosions in the background feel a bit fake to me, but this first generation actually came out really, really nicely
15:21Feels very realistic
15:24Love the lighting on my t-shirt, the way the fabric's moving, the way the volcano is moving and erupting
15:29Pretty insane
15:32And we've had one person vote
15:32So, if we say left is better, I believe it's going to reveal which video model was used
15:40And actually, Seance gave the best result and Clling V2.1 gave the result we didn't like as much
15:47So you can see guys that you really can go through, take a great starting image, pull that into LM Arena, and then access Nano Banana, flesh out your scene by creating any modifications you want or any different camera angles you can think of, and then pull each of those images into LM Arena's Discord to animate them
16:08Yes, it's a bit of a workaround
16:10Yes, it's a little bit of a lucky dip and trial and error, but you haven't spent a penny
16:14Of course, to access Midjourney, that is a paid subscription, but I really recommend you guys get involved with Midjourney
16:22It's an incredible tool to get your head around
16:26Out of all the AI tools I've used so far, MidJourney is definitely my personal favorite
16:31And of course, you don't need to use AI generated frames as your starting point
16:36You could take a still from a film or from a magazine shoot
16:41Really, the sky's is the limit
16:43So, just as a quick example of that, we have this Esquire front cover featuring Post Malone
16:48I'm just going to save this image
16:50I'll drop it into LM Marina
16:50And for starters, I'm just going to say remove the text on this image
16:55We'll go ahead and hit return
16:58And you can see it has done an incredible job at keeping the environment consistent whilst removing that text
17:06So, I'm going to download this shot to work from
17:07Drop that clean version of the shot into LM Marina
17:12And let's just try something like ultra wide establishing shot
17:14The man is posing inside the car, which is in the middle of a huge field
17:23And let's just hit return there and see what Nano Banana gives us back
17:30And that to me is just absolutely wild and a really nice example to finish the video on
17:38Guys, if you have enjoyed today's content, make sure to whack a like on there for me, consider subscribing if you're new, and of course, ring that bell notification icon because we are looking at these amazing AI tools all of the time
17:49Thank you so much for watching, guys
17:52I will catch you on the next
