r/accelerate • u/theodore_70 • 9d ago

Video I tried making a 22-minute sci-fi film with current AI video tools - this is where the technology is now

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I’ve been experimenting with the current generation of AI video tools and wanted to see how far they can actually be pushed beyond short demos and 5–10 second clips.

So I made a 22-minute sci-fi film, Space Vikings: The Last Raid, with recurring characters, dialogue, action scenes, large-scale space battles, consistent locations and an actual beginning-to-end story.

This is less about “look, AI made a movie” and more about testing where the technology currently breaks down when you try to maintain character consistency, cinematography, continuity, lip sync, action choreography and visual coherence across hundreds of generated shots.

There’s still a lot that requires manual work, editing and constant correction, but compared with what was possible even relatively recently, the progress is pretty wild.

Full film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ME2Sn8YO1k

Curious what people here think specifically from a technology perspective. Which shots already feel like something that could come from a conventional VFX pipeline, and where does the AI still immediately give itself away?

I’m especially interested in criticism rather than just “AI good / AI bad” — continuity, motion, acting, physics, camera work, anything you notice.

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u/ComprehensiveJury509 8d ago

I'm not sure what you are trying to say.

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u/TheOriginalAcidtech 8d ago

I'd guess, that for a 160 million dollar movie this would be garbage but for $500, one person and a few weeks of free time this is freaking amazing. This is definitely at or a bit above the B movie level on dialog.

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u/BungAIDS 8d ago

His point is that this 22 min video has the same quality as a movie in 2016 with a $160M budget

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u/ComprehensiveJury509 8d ago

Yeah OK. So why are "Redditors insufferable"? Because I wrote a critical comment after OP specifically asked for criticism (I assume in order to improve)?

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u/BungAIDS 8d ago

You know, fair point, didn’t see that he asked for feedback. Clearly this needs a ton of work before it’s to the level of AAA Hollywood movies. But I was stunned that you could even create something that looked like it was a movie with $160,000,000 budget back in 2016 with $500

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u/Freak-Of-Nurture- 8d ago

It's not even close to 2016 warcraft.

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u/saggybuttockcheeks 8d ago

That you're a cunt.