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February 27, 2025Industry News
House of David Uses AI for 72 Shots

Amazon's biblical epic House of David, created by Jon Erwin, premieres on Prime Video with 72 generative AI-assisted shots in Season 1 — one of the first major streaming series to openly integrate AI into its VFX pipeline. The standout is Episode 6's Goliath origin sequence: photoreal digital characters, armies of 10,000+, rain, smoke, and angel wing feathers — all driven by generative AI in collaboration with Vū Technologies. What would have taken four or five months of traditional post-production was completed in weeks. Erwin's approach: never generate from scratch, always augment existing show assets. The tools — Runway, Kling, Midjourney, Magnific, and Topaz alongside After Effects — handled physics simulations better than conventional VFX software at a fraction of the cost.