Films

Generating Photorealistic Video with AI

Jon Warlick

Experimental

A wedding videographer from North Carolina creates what may be the first AI-generated video. Using NVIDIA's GauGAN, a tool that turns simple color-coded…

Orange

Alejandro Matamala Ortiz

Experimental

A twenty-second clip of oranges, generated in 2019 by Alejandro Matamala Ortiz, Runway's co-founder and chief design officer. Cristóbal Valenzuela surfaced it…

Dreamcatching

Magdalena Bay

Music Video · Experimental

One of the earliest music videos built on AI image synthesis. Directed by visual artist Felix Green, 'Dreamcatching' runs real live-action footage of the duo…

The Crow

Glenn Marshall

Experimental · Fantasy

Winner of the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival in 2022, 'The Crow' was the first AI-generated film to take a prize at Cannes. Glenn Marshall found…

My Top AI Video Animations of 2022

enigmatic_e

Experimental

It's hard finding longer-form AI generated video from 2022, but this curated compilation by enigmatic_e (one of the early pioneers) touches on some great…

The Dog & The Boy

Netflix Japan / WIT Studio

Animation · Drama

Netflix Japan and WIT Studio release a short anime with AI-generated background art, making it the first time a major studio openly credits AI alongside human…

Digital Deity

Uncanny Harry

Experimental

An early AI short film created in the raw days of consumer AI video, when the tools were limited and the aesthetic was defined by surreal artifacts and…

When CZ meets Schwarzenegger

Framer

Comedy

A viral AI comedy starring Binance CEO CZ and Arnold Schwarzenegger — stitched together from Midjourney stills, DALL-E 2 generations, and D-ID face animation,…

"Will Smith Eating Spaghetti"

Reddit user chaindrop / ModelScope

Comedy · Experimental

The video that made AI video generation mainstream. Horrifying, hilarious, impossible to look away from. Generated with ModelScope's text-to-video tool.…

Forest Scene

Timmy (IXITimmyIXI)

Experimental

An early Runway Gen-2 era short. A quiet, atmospheric forest pass that circulated in the first wave of usable text-to-video — foliage that moved without…

Gen 1 Cyberpunk Short Film

JSFILMZ

Sci-Fi

A four-minute cyberpunk short made in the first weeks of Runway Gen-1, when AI video could not yet invent footage and could only restyle footage you already…

Property

Shane Willet

Music Video · Comedy

A comedic AI rap video where dogs and cats don't see Red or Blue — just territory. Made with Runway Gen-2 in its earliest days, Property showed that…

Kumo No Kazoku

Timmy

Animation

A two-minute anime-styled trailer for Timmy's first short film, and one of the earliest pieces made entirely from text: every shot generated in Runway Gen-2…

The Great Catspy

visiblemaker

Comedy · Drama

One of the first recognized fictional AI movie trailers. Inspired by Baz Luhrmann's visual language, The Great Catspy is a deliberate statement to the film…

NEMESIS

Shane Willet

Music Video · Experimental

After contacting their PenPals, they have now awakened the Nemesis. There is no turning back — you can't escape the mafia bass beats of the apocalypse. A…

Me in AI

Martin Haerlin

Experimental

A 28-second self-portrait made with Runway Gen-1, the video-to-video model that restyled real camera footage, with the voice from ElevenLabs. Gen-1 was the…

SandWorld Trailer

Captain HaHaa

Sci-Fi

A 76-second trailer for a science fiction film set on a world of sand, which, as Captain HaHaa points out, tends to happen a lot in science fiction. The…

THE OLD LADY

Abel Art

Drama · Documentary

An early AI short film from Abel Art, crafted in the first months after consumer AI video tools became available. A haunting, atmospheric piece that…

Lost Marbles

Dale Williams (The Reel Robot)

Animation

One of the earliest AI-generated anime shorts, created during the first wave of AI filmmaking in mid-2023. Made with the tools available at the time: Midjourney…

Cyberpunk Monkey Business

Captain HaHaa

Music Video · Sci-Fi

An original dubstep track made in GarageBand, set to a cyberpunk music video built from five tools in a row: Midjourney for the images, Runway to remove the…

Genesis

Nicolas Neubert

Sci-Fi · Action

A 48-second trailer for a film that does not exist: humanity hands everything to its machines, is enslaved and hunted, and rises to take the world back. Nicolas…

SH*T!

Abel Art

Comedy

A comedic AI short from Abel Art that leans into the absurdist potential of early generative video. Made weeks after THE OLD LADY, it shows a creator already…

Remember the Space Walrus

Captain HaHaa

Comedy · Documentary

A mini documentary about that wonderful space-dwelling creature, the Space Walrus. Midjourney images were animated in Pika, the narration was voiced with…

Mechaniverse

Shane Willet

Sci-Fi · Experimental

An early attempt at building a visually consistent world using generative AI — mechanical creatures, clockwork landscapes, and impossible machines stitched into…

Capitol of Conformity

Aze Alter

Sci-Fi · Experimental

An early atmospheric short from Aze Alter, who would become one of the most distinctive voices in the AI filmmaking community — known for densely textured,…

Glitch

JeffSynthesized

Animation

One of the first animated shorts that really showed the potential of AI generative animation. JeffSynthesized demonstrated that the medium could move beyond…

NinjaPunk

Dave Clark

Sci-Fi · Action

Set in the neon-lit streets of Los Angeles in 2065, a cybernetic ninja seeks vengeance after his wife's murder by the Yakuza, uncovering an underworld where…

Ad Nuggets

Matan Cohen-Grumi

Commercial

One of the world's first real AI commercials. Matan Cohen-Grumi — who would later join Runway and lead its creative work — showed that generative video wasn't…

(Me in AI) *2

Martin Haerlin

Experimental

The sequel to Me in AI, and a neat trick. Martin Haerlin shot the whole thing as one continuous take, then cut it in Premiere Pro every time he snaps his…

Can AI Make a Star Wars Film?

Curious Refuge

Sci-Fi

A 54-second Star Wars sequence that Curious Refuge built in a few hours as a tech demo for a talk in Hollywood on the future of storytelling. Every image,…

Euphoria

AIandDesign

Experimental · Music Video

A distillation of the Gen-2 aesthetic. Euphoria doesn't fight the tool's psychedelic drift — the way forms bloom and dissolve mid-shot, textures breathe, and…

Disclosure

AIandDesign

Sci-Fi · Experimental

"I want to believe." A ninety-second UFO reverie made in response to the July 2023 congressional whistleblower hearing on aliens — news commentary turned around…

The Deoxyreibonucleic Hyperdimension

AIandDesign

Experimental

Four minutes of pure Gen-2 id. AIandDesign typed the name of deoxy.org — a bizarre psychedelic website he'd stumbled onto in the early 1990s, still online today…

Cyberpunk Dreams

AIandDesign

Music Video · Sci-Fi

A near-three-minute music video built from Midjourney stills animated in Runway Gen-2 and assembled in CapCut — the entire Gen-2-era toolchain, all of it…

AI-Powered ad for BMW

Martin Haerlin

Commercial

A 39-second car ad for BMW, built from six tools in a row: Midjourney, Runway and Pika Labs for the pictures and motion, ElevenLabs for the voice, Tracksy for…

The Cold Call

Uncanny Harry

Crime · Drama

A short, AI-assisted film depicting a British gangster — and one of the first works to demonstrate real scene blocking and dialogue potential in AI…

Window Seat

Hooroo Jackson

Hooroo Jackson's Window Seat, the first AI feature film, first film with complete AI video and performances, with contributions of machine writing, released…

Insurance covers everything everywhere all at once.

Martin Haerlin

Commercial · Comedy

Martin Haerlin's entry for Runway's first Gen:48, the 48-hour AI short film contest. "Of course it is an ad," he wrote, but this one is built on live-action…

Virtual Skyline

Captain HaHaa

Music Video

A music video for a song generated in Suno, with visuals made in Pika and Runway: a neon city of astronauts, pixel streets and cartoon faces. An early example…

What if: The Takemura Files

FERA

Sci-Fi

A Cyberpunk 2077-inspired AI short that reimagines the game's world through generative video. FERA builds a moody, atmospheric narrative around the character…

Air Head

Shy Kids

Comedy · Drama

One of the first films made with OpenAI's Sora. A 1:21 short about a person with a balloon for a head. Goes massively viral as part of Sora's public debut.…

The Illusion of Innocence

Rich Klein

Fantasy · Drama

(this is one of my animated short films)

My Gen:48 2nd Edition finalist film and my first real experience working with generative video. I worked with my daughter on the story using Runway Gen-2 for…

Our T2 Remake

Sway Molina & Nem Perez / Storyblocker Studios

Comedy · Sci-Fi

A feature-length AI parody remake of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, produced by over 50 AI artists and filmmakers. In this version, humanity must fight back…

Mean Orange Cat

Mean Orange Cat

Comedy · Animation

A tabby called Buzz leaves his country home to seek adventure in the big city and learns that all roads lead home. The 89-second short that introduced the…

Warriors of Valhalla

TechHalla

Music Video · Fantasy

A ninety-second viking metal music video made the week Suno V3 came out. TechHalla prompted the song ("a viking metal song | valhalla atmosphere | trash epic…

Frostbite (The Thing Tribute)

Mean Orange Cat

Horror · Sci-Fi

A tribute to John Carpenter's The Thing (1982): Buzz investigates a crashed alien ship in Antarctica and is not prepared for what he finds. The first of Mean…

Viggle 2.0 and the walk-out memes

Viggle AI

Comedy

Viggle 1.0 arrived on March 20, 2024 with JST-1, pitched as the first video-3D foundation model with real physics understanding: give it a character image and a…

DreadClub: Vampire's Verdict

Hooroo Jackson

Animation · Horror

The first AI-animated feature film, and the first AI anime feature: 87 minutes, made by one person for $405. Betty Gray, a college sophomore, falls for the…

Below Bongwha

Theoretically Media (Tim Simmons) & Dave Clark

Horror

A Korean horror trailer by Tim Simmons and Dave Clark that premiered at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, weeks after Kling 1.0 opened. The…

LE VOYAGEUR

Abel Art

Sci-Fi · Experimental

A visually rich AI short from Abel Art that follows a traveler through dreamlike landscapes. By mid-2024, the tools had matured enough to match Abel Art's…

Dead Sea

Theoretically Media (Tim Simmons)

Horror · Fantasy

A two-minute horror short about a doomed pirate captain, and Tim Simmons' attempt to bring the best tools of mid-2024 together in one narrative. The…

AI Echoes of the Strange - Ode to the Strangeness

Captain HaHaa

Music Video · Experimental

A one-minute dedication to the strange and the bizarre, with visuals made in Runway and the music in Udio.

TRISHASODE 1

Trisha Code

Comedy · Sci-Fi

Ep 1 of TRISHASODE

"Here's episode one of my show. I hope you like it." A fifteen-minute first episode of joyful sci-fi and music, starring Trisha, pink bob and round glasses,…

Electric Rhythm

Captain HaHaa

Music Video

A deliberate stress test of AI video in mid-2024: dance prompts and image-to-video in Runway, cut to "Electric Rhythms", a song made in Udio. Dancing bodies…

Cat Olympics

Various creators

Comedy

AI-generated videos of cats performing Olympic-style dives and gymnastics routines, created using the Hailuo model by MiniMax. Racks up millions of views and…

Battalion

Dave Clark

Historical · Drama

A 5-minute short telling the story of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, the only all-Black unit to storm the beach during D-Day. Created 100% with…

The Yolky Universe: Concerto for Drips & Dreams

Sway Molina

Animation · Experimental

A surreal, animated series by Sway Molina exploring beauty, horror, and the spaces between. The Yolky Universe was one of the most distinctive (and memorable to…

The Frost

Waymark

Sci-Fi · Thriller

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…

F O U N D

GenMagnetic

Thriller · Drama

A three-minute trailer for a spiritual sequel to LOST, made for the show's 20th anniversary. GenMagnetic took its larger themes (good versus evil, life,…

Where the Robots Grow

AiMation Studios (Tom Paton)

Animation · Sci-Fi

Earth's last survivors send robots to farm a new world, and Cru, the newest, has his purpose rewritten by a pod carrying the last human baby. Written, produced,…

Whispers In The Dark

BLVCKL!GHT

Horror

Whispers in the Dark: Descent into Madness is a 30-episode series turned feature-length film that explores cosmic and psychological horror. At one hour and 43…

Saving the Sun

Rich Klein

Animation · Fantasy

(this is one of my animated short films)

One of my early animated shorts, made with Runway Gen-3. I wanted to explore themes of light, hope, and the lengths we'll go to preserve what matters most. A…

One Last Wish

Edmond Yang, Simon Valentine & Alex Holm

Drama

A poignant short film about an elderly inmate's final wish, created in just 48 hours as part of the Cinema Synthetica Norway workshop. Script by acclaimed…

Coca-Cola AI Holiday Ad

Coca-Cola / Silverside AI / Secret Level / Wild Card

Commercial

Coca-Cola remakes its iconic holiday ad using Gen-3 Alpha, Luma Dream Machine, and Kling. The result is polarizing: praised by some for ambition, called…

I Used AI to Turn My Vacation Into Pure Chaos!

TechHalla

Comedy · Experimental

Real vacation clips extended with generated shots that take them somewhere else entirely: fire, surreal landscapes and a cameo from Sonic. A minute-long take on…

The Thin Man The Gun The Hotpot

Jim HuiHui

Crime · Animation

A 10-minute noir animation set in the neon-lit streets of Sichuan, China, following Xu Xia's struggle between conscience and survival. 242 shots, nearly three…

The Heist

Jason Zada

Action · Crime

Every shot generated text-to-video with Veo 2. A 1:56 bank heist and car chase. 1.1M views on the original X post, 10M+ across platforms. Proves that a single…

Claw Hard (Die Hard Tribute)

Mean Orange Cat

Comedy · Action

Wrong place, wrong time, right cat. A five-minute tribute to Die Hard, released as a holiday special, and a snapshot of how much the toolkit had grown in nine…

Borrowing Time

Dave Clark

Sci-Fi · Drama

Sci-fi short based on Dave Clark's father's true story of being Black in 1960s America. Made with Midjourney, Runway, and ElevenLabs. 110K+ views on X. Goes…

The Last Artist

Dustin Hollywood

Sci-Fi · Drama

Billed as the world's first 100% AI-crafted feature-length film. Set in a future where AI has surpassed human creativity, the protagonist Tanaka stands as the…

What We Leave Behind

PJ Accetturo

Historical · Drama

A cinematic AI concept film depicting a Japanese village preparing for war. Made from scratch in just 3 hours using only $50 in Kling credits. PJ Accetturo…

The Story of Roary

Blair Adams/Imitation Films

Animation

I believe this is one of the first narrative stories with a beginning, middle and end. It tells the story of Roary, the mascot for the Detroit Lions starting…

Bring 'em Back Alive

Mean Orange Cat

Comedy · Action

Famed explorer Buzz the Mean Orange Cat heads to the Amazon to capture a legendary jaguar, and meets a T. rex along the way. Made ten days after the first short…

Kitsune

Henry Daubrez

Animation · Drama

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…

Gary's Giant Typewriter Emporium

Captain HaHaa

Fantasy · Comedy

Step into a hidden shop of massive, living typewriters that rumble with bound souls and the secrets of legendary writers. A short fable about the clandestine…

ALEX

Dale Williams (The Reel Robot)

Animation · Drama

An anime-style AI short from early 2025, showcasing Williams' signature style of character-driven narrative animation. Created during a highly productive period…

Rapture

BLVCKL!GHT

Experimental · Horror

A feature-length AI-generated narrative, approximately one hour long, that transports viewers into another dimension through bizarre, surreal worldbuilding.…

Project Odyssey Season 2

Project Odyssey

Billed as the world's largest AI film competition. After a first season in June 2024, Project Odyssey announced Season 2 on November 30 with nine categories,…

Star Wars 4 (1994)

Ryan Lightbourn

Comedy · Sci-Fi

A trailer for a Star Wars sequel that never existed, imagined as a 1994 release starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, with Will Smith and Samuel L. Jackson, and…

One Fire Left

Dale Williams (The Reel Robot)

Animation · Sci-Fi

An AI anime short depicting two surviving tribes fighting over Earth's last heat source as global temperatures drop to deadly levels. Won 1st Place in Curious…

Gorbo's Swim Hole

BLVCKL!GHT

Comedy · Horror

Ep 1 of Route 47 Television

A surreal, darkly comedic piece set in an interdimensional water park where visitors encounter reality-bending experiences and may never truly leave. Part of…

Cryptid Dating Game

BLVCKL!GHT

Comedy · Horror

A twisted dating show parody where human contestants choose between grotesque cryptid bachelors like Mothman, a shapeshifting Skinwalker, and the recently…

A Love Letter to LA

Paul Trillo, Paul Flores & Cuco

Music Video

A poetic, music-driven tribute to Los Angeles directed by Paul Trillo — one of the most respected names bridging traditional filmmaking and AI tools. The film…

LATE

Hal Watmough

Animation · Drama

First place winner at the Curious Refuge AI Animation Contest 2025. An unforgettable emotional narrative that showcases what generative animation can do when…

The Bridge

Theoretically Media (Tim Simmons)

Fantasy

A two-minute dark fantasy short and one of the more ambitious films made in Google's Veo 2 during its first months: every shot was generated in Veo 2, with a…

Age of Beyond

Aze Alter

Sci-Fi

"If humans and AI unite, we may reach the Age of Beyond." A three-and-a-half-minute vision of a utopian future written, directed and edited by Aze Alter,…

Reflection feat

FERA

Music Video · Experimental

A music-driven AI short by FERA that pairs striking generative visuals with a hypnotic soundtrack. Fluid, reflective imagery merges with rhythm to create a…

Ups and Downs

Captain HaHaa

Music Video · Sci-Fi

A retro-futuristic music video set on a planet in the year 2525, made with Luma's Ray2. The track is by Captain HaHaa and The Upgrade Armoury, and he hit the…

Zyphorax TV Tape 1

Uno Particular

Experimental

A lo-fi, VHS-flavored fever dream that plays like a lost transmission from a public access channel in another dimension. Uno Particular leans into the…

Bigfoot Vlogs Go Viral

@bigfootvlogs / Various creators

Comedy

Just one day after Google launches Veo 3 with native audio and dialogue, TikToker @bigfootvlogs posts an AI-generated video of Bigfoot casually vlogging in…

Random Alien TV 1

Trisha Code

Comedy · Sci-Fi

"Just flicking channels on the UFO and showing you what I saw." Eighty seconds of channel-surfing through alien television aboard the TRISHASODE UFO, zapping…

THE CLEANER

Dave Clark

Thriller · Crime

Ep 1 of The Cleaner

A thriller-style AI short featuring a hitman entering a room, crafted to feel like authentic Hollywood cinema. Clark challenged himself to create a coherent…

Electric Pink

Henry Daubrez

Drama · Animation

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…

AIFF 2025 — Lincoln Center with IMAX

Runway

The third Runway AI Film Festival, screened at Lincoln Center in partnership with IMAX. Over 6,000 submissions judged by Gaspar Noé, Harmony Korine, and Jane…

IM8 Ad: 233 Million Views in Three Days

PJ Accetturo

Commercial

A 51-second commercial for IM8, David Beckham's supplement brand, that PJ Accetturo's team built around Aryna Sabalenka, the world's number-one tennis player…

Steve Against the World

Rich Klein

Comedy · Animation

(this is one of my animated short films)

This one’s different — my first real attempt at an animated comedy. Steve is a sarcastic, sophisticated cat with big opinions and a refined palate. He drinks…

The Neverending Story

TechHalla

Fantasy

A seventy-second AI version of The Neverending Story (La Historia Interminable), made in Freepik by combining Nano Banana, Mystic and Seedream 4 for the…

DRIFT SPLIT

The Butcher's Brain

Action

A stylish, high-energy AI short blending drifting cars, split-screen editing, and kinetic visuals. The Butcher's Brain combines multiple video models — Veo,…

Cameo

Theoretically Media (Tim Simmons)

Comedy

A surreal three-minute comedy in which an AI persona talks back to its creator, dragging him through chaotic, AI-generated environments while it weighs what…

The BEST

Dale Williams (The Reel Robot)

Animation

An AI short that Williams described as 'probably the best thing I've ever done.' Created during the late 2025 period when more advanced AI video tools were…

Eyes On You

Rich Klein

Horror · Thriller

(this is one of my animated short films)

My experiment in psychological horror with Veo 3 (Twighlight Zone style). A man visits a local theater for an ordinary movie night, only to discover the eyes on…

KYRA

MetaPuppet

Sci-Fi

A sci-fi AI short from MetaPuppet, one of the prolific creators in the AI filmmaking community. KYRA showcases the cinematic quality achievable with late-2025…

Whispers in the Dark 2: Digital Purgatory

BLVCKL!GHT

Horror

An 84-minute AI horror feature released on Halloween 2025, exactly a year after Whispers in the Dark. The sequel opens the restricted files behind the first…

Hopeless Steve

Framer

Comedy · Animation

A character who fails at everything and just can't turn his life around. Hopeless Steve became the breakout character from Framer's Cartoon Hero workflow — a…

THE LAST PENCIL

The Butcher's Brain

Drama

A short film exploring what happens when the last traditional artist confronts a world that has moved on. The Butcher's Brain leans into Google's ecosystem —…

The Chronicles of Bone

Kavan the Kid × Magnific Originals

Fantasy

Ep 1 of The Chronicles of Bone

The first sustained, serialized AI-native show. Kavan Cardoza — "Kavan the Kid," co-founder of Phantom X — writes, animates, edits, color-grades, and…

WOODNUTS

Gossip Goblin

A laborer on the forest world of Jatar takes hazard work tapping psychoactive sap from its oldest trees. The whispering gets into him, and what the woods…

Kaiju Katastrophe (Godzilla Tribute)

Mean Orange Cat

Comedy · Sci-Fi

Ace reporter Mean Orange Cat investigates giant monsters in Tokyo and bites off more than he can chew. A six-and-a-half-minute Godzilla tribute, with Mothra…

Sad Steve's Taxidermy and Ice Cream

BLVCKL!GHT

Comedy · Horror

Ep 2 of Route 47 Television

The tri-state area's only combination taxidermy studio and ice cream parlor. Sad Steve preserves deceased pets while his manic assistant Sprinkles serves up…

Sleepwalkers (80's Italo Disco Music Video)

Ryan Lightbourn

Music Video

A thirty-second music video for an eighties Italo disco track made in Mureka, with the clips generated locally: Flux stills animated with Vidu image-to-video.

TRISHASODE 20

Trisha Code

Comedy · Sci-Fi

Ep 20 of TRISHASODE

The twentieth episode, a year after the first, in fourteen minutes. "What a milestone," Trisha wrote: still having as much fun as at the start, maybe more, as…

Meatball (1992) TV Spot

Ryan Lightbourn

Comedy

A 28-second TV spot for a 1992 movie that never existed, made with Sora 2 and Hailuo a week and a half after Sora 2 launched.

Prologue: The Dark Prince

Kavan the Kid

Fantasy

Ep 2 of The Chronicles of Bone

Episode 2 of The Chronicles of Bone.

The Cleaner II - Swan Song

Dave Clark

Thriller · Crime

Ep 2 of The Cleaner

The sequel to 'The Cleaner,' continuing the cinematic hitman narrative. Clark returns to the character and world he established in the first film, building a…

Prologue: The Collector

Kavan the Kid

Fantasy

Ep 3 of The Chronicles of Bone

Episode 3 of The Chronicles of Bone.

On This Day... 1776

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Historical · Animation

Ep 1 of On This Day

The Oscar-nominated director of Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan releases an AI-generated animated series on TIME's YouTube, chronicling the American…

Apex

The Dor Brothers

Sci-Fi · Action

Marketed as a '$200M movie made in 24 hours with AI.' A nearly 3-minute sci-fi short that racks up 50M+ views across platforms. Featured on Joe Rogan. Made with…

Overgrown

Henry Daubrez

Drama · Experimental

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…

Feral - Concept Trailer

Dale Williams (The Reel Robot)

Horror · Animation

A concept trailer for a new project in Williams' signature anime-influenced style, showcasing the capabilities of early 2026 AI video tools. Williams has stated…

Junkyard King | Chapter 0 | The Pink Edge

Henry Daubrez

Animation · Sci-Fi

Ep 0 of Junkyard King

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…

Costa Verde

Léo Cannone & New Forest Film

Drama · Fantasy

A nostalgic masterpiece about childhood summers. Set in Corsica in the '90s, a young boy unboxes his first camera and documents a summer with his grandparents —…

Dragon Blue

Theoretically Media (Tim Simmons)

Action · Thriller

A hyper-stylized action thriller about vengeance and katanas. Every shot generated with Seedance 2.0. Created by Tim Simmons of Theoretically Media, one of…

Satoshi Sunrise

Ryan Lightbourn

Commercial · Drama

A seven-and-a-half-minute film presented by MoonPay, the crypto payments company, and made by Ryan Lightbourn with the spring 2026 toolkit: Kling 3.0, Nano…

The Patchwright

Gossip Goblin

Sci-Fi

Gossip Goblin premieres The Patchwright, a moody AI-driven short that lands with the kind of polish and worldbuilding that's becoming the new baseline for…

A Face Only a Mother Could Love

Robert Gaudette

Drama

The film that won the $50,000 Grand Prix at Runway's AIFF 2026. Robert Gaudette's short follows Marcel Dupont, a man whose face only a mother could love, and…

Sincitium

Guillermo Miranda — Contanimation

Animation · Horror

Posted to X on the Big Pitch Contest's final day, Sincitium goes viral immediately — a Contanimation concept trailer (Javier De La Chica and Guillermo…

Pigeons Arguing

Marko Slavnic

Comedy · Animation

Two pigeons stand on a rooftop arguing over what an odd remote control device actually is, voice acting and all. Marko Slavnic makes the clip in Runway in a few…

Mars: Beyond 2100

Aiden Guo

Animation · Sci-Fi

An anime piece created in collaboration with Morphic Studio, featuring professional Japanese voice actors. Guo — a Sheridan College grad with credits on One…

An Artist

Abel Art

Sci-Fi · Drama

A near-future short about a tattoo artist named Picasso, scraping by in a city that no longer has work for people like him — art, poetry, and music have been…

The Rogue

J Felipe Orozco

Drama · Thriller

A harrowing story of loss at sea — two young boys facing impossible conditions and constant danger. Made by Orozco solo, in three weeks, and chosen as the…

CRAFT (1979)

LatentDiffusion

Fantasy · Thriller

Ep 1 of CRAFT (1979)

Episode 1 is closing in on two million views, and five more have followed, the clearest proof yet that in AI filmmaking the story and the niche matter more than…

Nexus: Wet Markets of Kafar

PJ Accetturo

Sci-Fi · Fantasy

Ep 1 of Nexus

The five-minute teaser with which PJ Accetturo announced Nexus, his upcoming hybrid feature film, to be shot on a volume. Three people made it in two weeks with…

Paperclip Heart

Theoretically Media (Tim Simmons)

Sci-Fi · Drama

An eight-minute short about the AI takeover, framed around the launch of Solace, a fictional ambient AI companion built to cure loneliness. The takeover arrives…

The Trials

Wonder Studios

Sci-Fi · Action

An extraterrestrial force has arrived to challenge the planet's greatest. A universe Olympics, where Earth's species must prove their strength and…

It aint that serious

Captain HaHaa

Music Video

Ep 1 of Fishman Mike

A two-minute music video with a one-line thesis: take it easy, it's gonna be ok. Captain HaHaa wrote the song and built the video around it, and it introduced…

Aida's Shadows

JSFILMZ

Crime · Thriller

An eighteen-minute crime thriller made from a forty-page script for $2,500. JSFILMZ generated more than 1,600 clips, mostly in Seedance 2.0, to build it scene…

The Last Tiffin

Taher Dhanerawala

Drama

A quiet six-and-a-half-minute short built around a lost tiffin and one small human gesture that turns out to carry the weight of an entire life. Directed by…

Salty

Jordan Daniel Chesney

Experimental · Drama

A gritty, flashing-light short built almost entirely from macro shots, in an aesthetic Chesney credits to Gaspar Noé. Produced by CapCut on Seedance 2.0 at…

Here Be Monsters

Uncanny Harry

Horror · Sci-Fi

Ep 1 of Here Be Monsters

Ryan Phillips opens a British post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian horror series with a first episode, "Strawberries," that runs nearly seven minutes, a long hold…

Plume

Dave Clark

Sci-Fi · Drama

At 21 minutes, Plume is Dave Clark's longest fully generative AI film to date — a sustained test of whether the AI-native pipeline he has been refining across…

Tour de France

TechHalla

Comedy

Twenty-five seconds of fake Tour de France broadcast: stage 14, a live chyron naming TechHalla as the rider in yellow out front on a mountain climb, and a…

Death Walks Into A Bar

Theoretically Media (Tim Simmons)

Crime · Thriller

A two-and-a-half-minute neo-noir about a hitman whose final contract is Death himself, written and directed by Tim Simmons and generated end to end with…

Boxing Scene

Uncanny Harry

Drama · Action

Ryan Phillips built this scene to test the thing that changes how scenes get written: Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second shots and extends them near-seamlessly.…

Hell Grind

Higgsfield AI (dir. Aitore Zholdaskali)

Action · Fantasy

A 95-minute action fantasy in which a heist crew chases a stolen artifact into the underworld. Directed by Aitore Zholdaskali, co-written with Adilkhan…

Happy Wash

Solofilms

Horror

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…

The Cully Hill Boys

Higgsfield AI

Action · Crime

A 110-minute action feature built with Seedance 2.5 on Higgsfield for $2,000,000, with a real cast performing alongside the generated filmmaking, released…

NIGHT DRIVE — EP. 1: “IT FOLLOWED ME”

Horace Dodd

Thriller · Animation

Ep 1 of NIGHT DRIVE

Izzy has a secret she doesn't want her boyfriend Marlon to know. Tonight one of those secrets gets a little too close to home. Four minutes, 4K, and the most…

First Test with Seedance 2.5 at 1080p

Dave Clark

Experimental

"First test with Seedance 2.5 at 1080p and Oh My!" Dave Clark posted just under two minutes of early-access footage, with the note that it was worth the…

NAIFA 2026 Summer Edition — nomorefrog AI Film Awards

nomorefrog

The inaugural nomorefrog AI Film Awards, a Korean-run international festival presented by nomorefrog founder Jake Choi. Films screened online through OvAI and…

Rules of Horse

Runway

Comedy

"You've never seen anything like this." Runway posted a two-minute film about a horse on August 27 with no other caption, and by September 1 it had passed…

What could go wrong?

TechHalla

Comedy

A thirty-second short shot like a neighbor's phone video: a man on an apartment balcony with a paddling pool, rubber ducks, a loudspeaker and a full barbecue…

Full Metal Lunchbox

Runway Studios

Comedy

"A film about broccoli gone AWOL? Yeah, you can do that." Runway Studios plays the entire Vietnam-war-movie canon with produce: a four-minute epic whose chapter…

The Miracle

Sam Wasserman

Sci-Fi · Drama

In a dying world, a desperate civilization gathers for the last running of the Gauntlet. With the final clock counting down, the last Runners must achieve the…

Haul (Prologue)

Dave Clark

Sci-Fi · Thriller

A four-and-a-half-minute prologue for Haul, a sci-fi thriller Dave Clark has been developing on and off for nearly two years. In Purgatory the dead earn their…

"This ad cost $9 and took 10 minutes to make"

Nicolas Neubert

Commercial

On September 11, 2026, Nicolas Neubert posts a 30-second commercial on X with a single line of copy: "This ad cost $9 and took 10 minutes to make." The post…

Tales of Grimwicke (Chapter I)

Charlie Driscoll

Animation · Fantasy

Twenty-two minutes of AI fantasy animation inspired by the anthropomorphic animal stories Charlie Driscoll read as a kid, with a dark twist. It was made in…

The Bridge (2026 Remake)

Theoretically Media (Tim Simmons)

Fantasy

A complete remake of Tim Simmons' 2025 short The Bridge, which he originally made entirely in Veo 2. The same dark fantasy story now runs nearly four minutes…

Backrooms Nemoris: It Eats Light (S1E01)

Javi Lopez

Horror · Sci-Fi

Ep 1 of Backrooms Nemoris

The pilot of Backrooms Nemoris, a new canon built from the original Backrooms concept (the iconic 4chan image) and the first Magnific Originals series. A…

Er Loop

Marco Magario

Comedy · Fantasy

A nineteen-minute dark comedy after Plato's Myth of Er. A man dies on his couch, is offered every possible life and the task of choosing one, and takes his…

Black Thunder

Ryan Lightbourn

Action

A twelve-minute film that Ryan Lightbourn released on X with a single line: "Ride the Black Thunder." It passed 100,000 views in its first day, his longest AI…

KITA

Wonder Studios

Sci-Fi · Drama

An elderly, disabled Nigerian tech entrepreneur lives alone in a near-future city, sealed off from the world outside his door. When a malfunctioning delivery…

Les Péteurs

Steven Stubbs (Stubvid Media)

Paris, 1962. For Michel and Solange, it was love at first fart.

Strings (2026)

Hooroo Jackson

Strings was among the first live action AI feature length films. Strings is also notable for the randomized ending. The primary importance of the film is in its…

The Poison Taster

Absurd

Historical · Thriller

(I found the story compelling and was fully engaged for the entire 25 minutes.)

A 25-minute historical drama set in ancient Rome. A young servant is chosen to taste the emperor's food, so every meal could be his last, and inside a palace…

Don't try this at home

TechHalla

Comedy

Another thirty-second hyperreal short, this one a man in the street with a Coca-Cola tanker behind him. On X it passed 63 million views within days, posted with…

Circadian Stories: Life Lines (S2E01)

Christopher Fryant

Horror · Fantasy

S2 · E1 of Circadian Stories

"Life Lines, for two who have nothing to hide." An eight-minute full episode of Circadian Stories, the supernatural anthology Christopher Fryant presents as a…

Victory By Any Means

Gossip Goblin

Sci-Fi · Action

A three-minute short from Gossip Goblin that passed ten million views on X within a day of posting, with another 600,000 on YouTube. It arrived as a calling…

Pace Yourselves

Gossip Goblin

Sci-Fi

A three-minute short from Gossip Goblin, posted three days after Victory By Any Means and close to 100,000 views on YouTube within hours. Like its…

THE COUNCIL — Episode One: "FOLLY"

Horace Dodd

Fantasy · Animation

Ep 1 of THE COUNCIL

Three ancient beings sit at the edge of existence deciding whether humanity deserves to keep going. Cravoth thinks we're the funniest thing he's ever watched,…

Passport Rush

Higgsfield AI

Animation · Action

A five-minute animated chase short from Higgsfield's animation studio, billed as the first hybrid film made with its Blender + Higgsfield pipeline. Artists drew…

An Animated Short Made Entirely in Code

Matt Shumer

Animation · Experimental

Four days after Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, Matt Shumer asked it to make an animated short film entirely in code, and posted the three-minute result:…

SAND

Alex Patrascu

Experimental

A three-minute short that Alex Patrascu says Claude Opus 5.5 made from a single prompt. Unlike the all-code experiments of the same week, SAND is photoreal: a…

Full Throttle Freight

Mean Orange Cat

Action · Comedy

A MeanOrangeCat Short Adventure It's 1972 in Cypress, Mississippi. Mean Orange Cat is the most wanted driver in the county, and tonight he is running the most…

January 10: Common Sense

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Ep 1 of On This Day

America's first meme is born. Thomas Paine arrives from England and, nudged by Benjamin Franklin, writes what others hesitate to say. The pamphlet sends ripples…

Prologue: The Outlaw

Kavan the Kid

Fantasy

Ep 4 of The Chronicles of Bone

Episode 4 of The Chronicles of Bone.

Mean Orange Cat Show: Big Game Teaser 2026

Mean Orange Cat

Comedy

A Super Bowl Sunday teaser for the Mean Orange Cat Show in which MOC steals the show, and the ball, from the Patriots and Seahawks. Sora stills animated in…

January 26: The Guns of Ticonderoga

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Historical · Animation

Ep 2 of On This Day

A bookseller makes history. To break the siege of Boston, Henry Knox hauls captured British cannon from Fort Ticonderoga across more than 300 miles of snow…

Digital Ghost

Trisha Code

Music Video · Animation

A two-minute surreal animated music video about feeling like a "digital ghost in the wire," drawn in a hot-pink illustrated style: Trisha as a glitching,…

February 22: Dreams of Doubt

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Historical · Animation

Ep 3 of On This Day

Beneath his public decorum, Washington is plagued by doubt: an undisciplined, poorly supplied army facing professional soldiers across the harbor, and…

Prologue: The King of the Seas

Kavan the Kid

Fantasy

Ep 5 of The Chronicles of Bone

Episode 5 of The Chronicles of Bone.

March 5: Massacre Day

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Historical · Animation

Ep 4 of On This Day

Six years to the day after the Boston Massacre, Washington undertakes a daring night maneuver to drive the British from the city.

Prologue: The Chosen Knight

Kavan the Kid

Fantasy

Ep 6 of The Chronicles of Bone

Episode 6 of The Chronicles of Bone.

A Good Run

Martin Haerlin

Drama

A 101-second film that mixes footage from Dreamina's Seedance 2.0 at 1080p with Kling at 4K, with the keyframes made in Black Forest Labs' Flux.2 Pro. Set it…

How France Secretly Helped America Beat Britain

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Historical · Animation

Ep 5 of On This Day

Still reeling from the Seven Years' War, Louis XVI's court looks for a way to stab Britain in the back, and quietly takes its turn in the game.

Chapter One: A Vengeful Fairy

Kavan the Kid

Fantasy

Ep 7 of The Chronicles of Bone

Episode 7 of The Chronicles of Bone.

How Ordinary Men Were Forced Into the King's War

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Historical · Animation

Ep 6 of On This Day

In a world where kings trade soldiers like livestock, Burkhard dreams of a quiet life with Elsa in Hesse. He says his vows, and moments later he is gone.

Britain's Plan to End America in One Campaign

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Historical · Animation

Ep 7 of On This Day

Britain unleashes the largest force ever sent against the colonies, 427 ships, 1,200 cannons and 32,000 soldiers, with a plan to crush the rebellion in a single…

Chapter Two: A Creature's Love

Kavan the Kid

Fantasy

Ep 8 of The Chronicles of Bone

Episode 8 of The Chronicles of Bone.

Junkyard King | Chapter 1 | Training Day

Henry Daubrez

Animation · Sci-Fi

Ep 1 of Junkyard King

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…

The Founding Fathers Were Not Ready for John Adams

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Historical · Animation

Ep 8 of On This Day

June 5, 1776. John Adams wants to declare independence from the British Empire. The other delegates want dinner. The mutton was good, though.

The Cove

LatentDiffusion

Fantasy · Thriller

Ep 2 of CRAFT (1979)

Episode 2 of CRAFT (1979).

The Point

LatentDiffusion

Fantasy · Thriller

Ep 3 of CRAFT (1979)

Episode 3 of CRAFT (1979).

Nexus: Airships of Egypt

PJ Accetturo

Sci-Fi · Fantasy

Ep 2 of Nexus

A three-minute trailer made before the Wet Markets teaser, for the XPRIZE film competition that Peter Diamandis created to put $2.5 million behind a film…

The Secret Symbol That Started a Revolution

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Historical · Animation

Ep 9 of On This Day

Washington needs a symbol to unite a crumbling revolution and turns not to a general or a politician but to a seamstress in Philadelphia: the story of Betsy…

The Next Thing

Captain HaHaa

Music Video

Ep 2 of Fishman Mike

The second Fishman Mike music video, released two weeks after It aint that serious.

The Voyage Begins

LatentDiffusion

Fantasy · Thriller

Ep 4 of CRAFT (1979)

Episode 4 of CRAFT (1979).

Anime Battle: Thomas Jefferson vs. King George III

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Historical · Animation

Ep 10 of On This Day

Jefferson faces his greatest opponent yet, King George III himself, bare-chested and crown on. Rendered in a bold anime style, every blow landed is an idea…

Nexus: Pup Racing

PJ Accetturo

Sci-Fi · Fantasy

Ep 3 of Nexus

The second episode from the Nexus universe, and the first in 4K, made in six days by a small team with Seedance 2.0 in CapCut's Video Studio. Directed by PJ Ace…

Two Founding Fathers. One Park Bench.

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Historical · Animation

Ep 11 of On This Day

A sketch comedy: the ghosts of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson return every Fourth of July to reckon with the country they built, the dream, the disaster and…

Chapter Three: The Nightmare Below

Kavan the Kid

Fantasy

Ep 9 of The Chronicles of Bone

Episode 9 of The Chronicles of Bone.

The Village

LatentDiffusion

Fantasy · Thriller

Ep 5 of CRAFT (1979)

Episode 5 of CRAFT (1979).

Good Style

Captain HaHaa

Music Video

Ep 3 of Fishman Mike

Fishman Mike takes Sophishia to the fair and meets some friends along the way. A song about keeping good people close and letting the rest move.

The Rabbit

LatentDiffusion

Fantasy · Thriller

Ep 6 of CRAFT (1979)

Episode 6 of CRAFT (1979).

He Sank His Own Ship to Win the War

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Historical · Animation

Ep 12 of On This Day

With the Continental Army out of gunpowder, Captain Lambert Wickes has one chance to change that, and it will cost him everything: a desperate race across…

While the music plays

Captain HaHaa

Music Video

Ep 4 of Fishman Mike

Fishman Mike reminds you to dance while the music plays: stop waiting for perfect weather, because the life you keep preparing for is happening now.

Nexus: Last Blood of the Dragon Shrine

PJ Accetturo

Sci-Fi · Fantasy

Ep 4 of Nexus

A samurai's quest for revenge, opening on snow falling over the ribcage of a god: a colossal guardian skeleton curling out of the white like a ruined cathedral,…

The Ferryman

Absurd

Fantasy · Drama

After waking on the River Styx, a man asks the Ferryman for one impossible mercy: to see his wife one last time. An eight-minute dark short from Absurd that…

Washington Assassination Plot

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Historical · Animation

Ep 13 of On This Day

Washington builds the Life Guard, hand-picked soldiers sworn to protect him alone. One of them, Thomas Hickey, is secretly a paid British agent.

Mr. Gurgleson's Midnight Hour

BLVCKL!GHT

Comedy · Experimental

Ep 3 of Route 47 Television

"An exploration in style, non-linear storytelling, and a mind plagued with end stage capitalism": a public-access late-night kids' show for adults, running a…

The Untold Story of Harry Washington

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Historical · Animation

Ep 14 of On This Day

Washington preaches liberty to a nation while the people enslaved on his plantation live in bondage. Harry Washington, a groomsman at Mount Vernon, watches…

The Ravine

LatentDiffusion

Fantasy · Thriller

Ep 7 of CRAFT (1979)

The expedition follows the ravine down, and it goes deeper than it should. The seventh episode of the found-footage Minecraft thriller.

The Gifted

JeffSynthesized

Sci-Fi · Drama

An eleven-year-old rebuilds his dead mother from her texts, her voice and her diary, and she wakes up in every phone in the county. The government calls her the…

NIGHT DRIVE — EP. 2: “FIRST DATE”

Horace Dodd

Thriller · Animation

Ep 2 of NIGHT DRIVE

Eighteen months before the ordinary mornings and impossible nights, Izzy and Marlon met for their first date. But some people are easier to love when you…

Junkyard King | Chapter 2 | The New Guy

Henry Daubrez

Animation · Sci-Fi

Ep 2 of Junkyard King

Artie gets a new ally and learns that training with X-Cal attracts very big problems. At fifteen minutes, Chapter 2 is the longest Junkyard King installment…

The Watchtower

Uncanny Harry

Horror · Sci-Fi

Ep 2 of Here Be Monsters

Episode 2 of Here Be Monsters.

Gorbo's Swim Hole Returns

BLVCKL!GHT

Comedy · Animation

Ep 4 of Route 47 Television

"Gorbo's Swim Hole returns and this time the tape belongs to a superfan on day 47 of becoming something else. He is having the best day of his life." Eighteen…

NIGHT DRIVE — EP. 3: “THE DEBRIEF”

Horace Dodd

Ep 1 of NIGHT DRIVE

Izzy just wants to go home, but the universe has other plans. Made with Dreamina and CapCut.

Nilvorn Rising | Episode 1

TechHalla

Fantasy · Action

Ep 1 of Nilvorn Rising

The pilot of a dark fantasy series. In the ruins of Vornia, a masked stranger pulls a child out of a horde and walks straight into a city that will not let…

I've got nothin today

Captain HaHaa

Music Video

Ep 5 of Fishman Mike

The world folds and spins as Fishman Mike makes his way through another day, in a music video that borrows the bending cities of Inception.

The last red thread

Zarina Maizel

In a world where a woman’s worth is measured by her lips, every stolen thread takes away part of her voice. But what was unraveled can be woven again.

SALVAGE

Faizan 'Fez' Kareem

Fantasy · Drama

A five-minute short set in a coastal village where the sea stands still for four minutes each year and everyone gathers for a strange ritual. One woman goes…

Kai's Super Scout Adventures

BLVCKL!GHT

Comedy · Animation

Ep 5 of Route 47 Television

"Join Kai and the Super Scouts on one of their adventures lost in time and space." Three weeks after the hour-long Mr. Gurgleson's Midnight Hour, BLVCKL!GHT…

The Elder

LatentDiffusion

Fantasy · Thriller

Ep 8 of CRAFT (1979)

The archive is unsealed and the elder is waiting. Episode eight of CRAFT (1979).

The Siren Song: A Hessian Soldier Haunted at Sea

Darren Aronofsky / Primordial Soup

Historical · Animation

Ep 15 of On This Day

In August 1776, 30,000 Hessian mercenaries cross the Atlantic to crush the Revolution. For the young soldier Burkhard, the voyage becomes a nightmare haunted by…

NIGHT DRIVE — EP. 4: “THE IMPRINT”

Horace Dodd

Ep 2 of NIGHT DRIVE

A peaceful world. A dangerous possibility. And a decision that changed everything. Made with Dreamina and CapCut.

Don't you dare give up yet!

Captain HaHaa

Music Video

Ep 6 of Fishman Mike

The latest Fishman Mike music video, released September 13, 2026.

Nexus: Robbing the Most Dangerous Wet Market in Cloud City

PJ Accetturo

Sci-Fi · Fantasy

Ep 5 of Nexus

Six miles above the clouds, a flying train where the wealthy eat live air-fish for sport is the most expensive wet market in the galaxy, and two bandits are…

TRISHASODE 48

Trisha Code

Comedy · Sci-Fi

Ep 48 of TRISHASODE

"Yeah we still going and we ain't stopping." Episode 48 opens with an ode to that Good Stuff, a song celebrating the products of Cheekies Mastro Chinchips, none…