Neill Blomkamp, best known for directing “District 9,” has released “Nightborne,” his first short film generated entirely by AI.\u00a0The 13-minute sci-fi horror piece was built from scratch using the Seedance 2.0 video generation model, with Blomkamp directing frame by frame through text prompts. Shot in a documentary style, the film follows a U.S. pilot presumed dead and a secret military program that sends fallen soldiers back into combat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The faces and voices of 32 real people were used under licensing agreements, and human artists created the concept art.\u00a0Blomkamp said on X<\/a>\u00a0that he now plans to shoot a full-length feature film in the same format. He also\u00a0founded Barley Studios<\/a>, a new AI film studio that succeeds Oats Studios, which makes traditional films.<\/p>\n AI still faces skepticism in the creative industries,\u00a0driven by concerns over training data sourced from creative work without consent<\/a>, potential job losses, copyright issues, and fears of declining quality. Even so,\u00a0it’s reportedly gaining ground as a production tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tAI News Without the Hype \u2013 Curated by Humans<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive “AI Radar” frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n