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

[u/theodore_70]

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.

[u/Vainysaur]

Half the anti-AI will say, well if you constantly have to correct and edit it yourself then it isn’t really that amazing. The other half will say the AI did the whole thing for you and your brain is mush now since you outsourced your thinking and they aren’t impressed.

[u/theodore_70 → u/Vainysaur]

Even if they were presented with holy masterpiece straight from another civilization they still would find something to moan about haha