Robert Sladeczek

Final Cut Express and a lightsaber

Robert Sladeczek was born in Munich in 1996, according to German Wikipedia^[4]. He taught himself to edit in Final Cut Express from YouTube tutorials, and because the program could not track motion, he keyframed effects onto his own hand frame by frame^[1]. One of those videos, a lightsaber effect posted on Facebook, is what made his classmate Albert Bozesan decide he could make videos too^[1].

I remember Final Cut Express... it couldn't autotrack. So I had to manually keyframe myself onto my hand.

Robert Sladeczek^[1]

From 2015 he and Albert worked together regularly in a creative collective called Kalonoma^[4]. German Wikipedia lists their early prizes: first place in the 16 to 20 category of the Deutscher Multimediapreis mb21 in 2016 for Apayou - Experience the Future, a satire of startup self-promotion, a place in the audience-voted Top 99 of the 99Fire-Films-Award in 2017, and a category win at flimmern & rauschen in 2018 for Jack & Cooper - Identity Theft, which was also an official selection at the Berlin Independent Film Festival^[4]. His casting profile lists him as director of Jack and Cooper and of the TEDxTUM 2018 opening skit^[12].

Comedy writers first

By 2020 he and Albert ran the Catchphrase Comedy open mic at the Gasteig in Munich and the production company Peak State Entertainment, and had been to a Robert McKee screenwriting seminar in London together^[13]. That July ProSiebenSat.1's FYEO app launched JOUR FIXE - Die Startupper, the twelve-part audio sitcom they created and wrote with Tommy Krappweis, in which Robert voices Stefan^[13][4].

He also worked as a video producer and VFX artist on brand campaigns, including Hugendubel and fritz-kola^[14]. On Schund und Schmutz, the 1920s Munich crime drama Audible released on 2 December 2022, he was co-writer, co-director with Meike Wendt and Albert, and composer of additional music; by the end of that month it was the number one Historical Crime title on Audible^[14].

The comedy habit carries into everything. On AI LIVE, Albert handed him the question about where TARMAC's background gags come from.

As comedy writers, we keep a little list of things that happen like in every meeting, on the street, in a subway.

Robert Sladeczek^[1]

Real person, fake set

Robert's own channel describes him as a director and filmmaker focused on connecting AI visuals with real human performances^[3]. In August 2025 he was one of the four friends on the pirate shoot at a Bavarian lake, working the AI stations, and in The Captain's Cook that September he plays the captain and edited the film^[17][16].

In December 2025 he published the idea that defines his channel. A Short, Real person. Fake set., turned a poorly lit office into a high-end art gallery around a real performance by Martina Peroni^[6]. Ten days later came the full tutorial: light the performer, treat the room as an HDRI, replace the background in ComfyUI, then upscale and fix faces^[5]. It is his most watched video, at about 10,900 views, and he sells the workflow file with a SAM3 cutout workflow on Gumroad^[5][7]. He credits Sebastian Ungrad, The Butcher's Brain, as inspiration for the nodes^[5].

We focused entirely on lighting Martina and treated the actual office background as nothing more than a glorified HDRI.

Robert Sladeczek^[6]

His Move

On 9 February 2026 he released His Move, a 2Bert short created with Albert: mock 1950s sports coverage of the 1958 Czechoslovak Chess Championship, played entirely inside the grandmasters' minds^[8]. It looks like a newsreel, in sepia and black and white, with rival posters, fans in team hats, a commentator's booth and a final handshake^[8].

TARMAC and Agent Rowbird

TARMAC, released on 19 June 2026, is the sitcom he and Albert kept in a drawer for years: a secret facility under Ramstein Air Base that sends America's nuclear waste one week into the future^[9][1]. Robert is co-creator, co-writer and co-director, worked on post-production, and voices Special Agent Norbert Rowbird, the government liaison in the yellow suit^[9][11]. The illustrator who designed the cast, Ariane Emmerich, is someone he knows from school^[2].

On AI LIVE he explained two of the production's rules. The actors recorded in one day, one in the booth at a time, reacting to the others over headphones; and characters are posed separately on grey before being composited into a set^[1].

We capture the emotions and like a proper response. So they're not only reading their lines, but they're reacting to something that they hear over the headphones.

Robert Sladeczek^[1]

TARMAC Shorts followed on his channel at the end of June 2026, including Too much Family Guy? and Animation DIY^[19][20].

On AI LIVE, and what comes next

On 19 August 2026 he and Albert were the first pair of guests on AI LIVE's Creator Sessions, where they screened the pilot and opened their production deck^[1][2]. The two have co-taught a two-day ComfyUI intensive at the National Film School of Denmark^[15], and on 18 November 2026 they are due to give the keynote "Pitching is the New Product" at KI Navigator in Nuremberg^[18].