# The Frost

- Date: 2024-09-15
- Type: film
- Credit: Waymark
- Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Artists: [Waymark](https://aifilmhistory.org/artist/waymark)
- Made with: DALL·E 2 + D-ID (Part One); AI video generation (Part Two)
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNyxZi9Gp_4
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/the-frost-waymark

Survivors in a frozen world follow a mysterious signal up a mountain in Antarctica. The complete 23-minute cut premiered in September 2024, but its real significance is that the first half is a fossil of a moment that lasted about a year.

Part One went out in June 2023 as a 12-minute short, made without a video model because there wasn't one worth using. Josh Rubin generated every shot as a DALL-E 2 still and animated the stills with D-ID. By Part Two the tools had changed, and the film wears it: Part One is uncanny, Part Two photorealistic, with [JeffSynthesized](https://aifilmhistory.org/artist/jeffsynthesized/) joining for continuity. Back to back, it's a clean before-and-after of prompting stills into motion versus generating motion outright.

Links:
- MIT Technology Review — the original reveal: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/01/1073858/surreal-ai-generative-video-changing-film/
- Watch the complete film: https://youtu.be/DNyxZi9Gp_4
- Georgia State — Lights, Camera, Algorithm: https://provost.gsu.edu/2025/04/01/lights-camera-algorithm-how-ai-is-transforming-filmmaking/

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/the-frost-waymark
Era: 2024 · The Great Convergence
Last updated: 2026-09-28