AI filmmakers need 4,000-word prompts for each 30-second clip as Val K

Director Coerte Voorhees cast an AI-generated version of a 30-year-old Val Kilmer in the 1920s western As Deep as the Grave, while Particle6's synthetic actress Tilly Norwood will star in Misaligned. Framestore chief creative officer Tim Webber warned that AI models only scrape surface pixels.

Meanwhile, 23-year-old Higgsfield AI content lead Adil Alimzhanov released 2 full-length AI films this year: the 95-minute Hell Grind in 14 days (15-second shots in Seedance 2.0) and the 115-minute comedy The Cully Hill Boys in 1 month using 30-second clips in Seedance 2.5.

However, each 30-second segment required a 4,000-word prompt specifying camera angles and facial movements. Ready Player One star Tye Sheridan, who co-founded Wonder Dynamics in 2016 before his 2018 sci-fi role, argues that generative models cut to an average rather than human emotion.