6 films
2025
Henry Daubrez
A tale of two lonely souls finding connection. Curated from 1,700+ AI-generated shots into a coherent narrative. Made with Veo 2. Named one of the 9 Best AI Animated Films of 2025 by Curious Refuge. A masterclass in AI film curation — the human taste is the tool.
A nostalgic coming-of-age memory set to motion. Made with Google Imagen 3 and Veo 2 via Flow. Premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Festival. Created for Google's I/O 2025 developer event. AI film reaches a prestigious traditional film festival.
2026
A meditation on chronic resilience and the beauty of survival. Made with Google Flow and other tools during Daubrez's residency at Google Labs. In consideration for 2026 Tribeca Festival. One of the longest and most personal AI-generated films, pushing the format toward true short film territory.
An animated series pilot inspired by Arthurian legends in an 80s sci-fi setting. Made with Seedance 2.0, Google Flow, Gemini, Adobe Premiere/AE, ElevenLabs, and Suno. ~4 weeks of work, ~$1,000 in Seedance credits. Pioneered an 'omnireference' workflow. The future of serialized AI animation.
It wasn't a dream. The sword is real, but it runs on something Artie doesn't understand yet — so it's time to train. Three months after the Chapter 0 pilot, Henry Daubrez returns to his 80s-set, Arthurian-flavored animated series with a full nine-minute chapter: Artie, the VHS-obsessed teen detective, starts learning what the mysterious katana from the junkyard can actually do. The chapter began as a simple experiment with Invideo's Agent One and grew into a complete episode. Daubrez's own read on the process is the interesting part: the tool shifted his attention away from prompt engineering and toward filmmaking — direction, camera angles, movement, pacing, character interactions, dialogue. The things that actually matter when telling a story. Where Chapter 0 was a proof that serialized AI animation could exist, Chapter 1 is proof that the world can keep growing.
Artie gets an unexpected new ally, learns that brute force isn't always the answer, and discovers that training with X-Cal can attract some very, very big problems. At fifteen minutes, Chapter 2 is the longest Junkyard King installment yet, and the first credited as a production of ODD KID, the studio banner Henry Daubrez now releases the series under. The progression across the three chapters is the story of AI filmmaking in 2026 in miniature. Chapter 0 took four weeks and about $1,000 in Seedance credits to make a pilot exist. Chapter 1 grew out of a tool experiment into a nine-minute episode. Chapter 2 is simply a new episode of a show — a widening cast, a recurring setting, an antagonist scale-up, and a creator who is no longer asking whether serialized AI animation is possible, but how many stories the world can hold.