# Happy Wash

- Date: 2026-08-05
- Type: film
- Credit: Solofilms
- Genre: Horror
- Artists: [Solofilms](https://aifilmhistory.org/artist/solofilms)
- Made with: Seedance 2.5, Midjourney, Topaz Astra, Dreamina
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbQ-uzmzhlw
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/happy-wash

There's a laundromat in Tokyo that's open all night. The regulars keep to themselves, the old woman who runs the late shift is very good at her job, and the flyers on the wall keep changing. A ninety-second psychological horror short made with no cameras and no actors: Midjourney for the character design, Seedance 2.5 for the video, Topaz Astra for the upscale.

Its maker puts the views past ten million and the work at under four hours. The tutorial that followed walks through it in Dreamina's canvas: character references combined into a reusable element, frame capture to hold the characters from shot to shot, then the cut, the sound and the posters, with the full workflow opened for others to copy. Ninety seconds, one location and one unsettling character: the small-scale horror short, made in an afternoon, had become one of the most repeatable formats in AI film.

Links:
- How it was made: the full workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjRYjb-OFC0
- The Happy Wash workflow on Dreamina: https://dreamina.capcut.com/sv2/ZSqw5xNyX/

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/happy-wash
Era: 2026 · The Shakeout
Last updated: 2026-09-29