This Unfinished AI Film Is The Most Realistic We've Ever Seen

01 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 6:11

Lovable's new design partner

By Lovable

The main news of a quiet week. Lovable and LinkedIn have partnered so LinkedIn Premium users get free access to Lovable, and Lovable now has design features similar to Claude Design. The launch video pitches it as a new design partner: build with intention, collaborate with your team, leave comments and tag Lovable to action changes, and generate from text prompts, visual references or Lovable's own suggestions. Design is clearly moving into vibe coding tools, and the chat shared what they are building with, from Lovable apps to Uni-1 for design.

02 · ▶ on the show at 10:21

Spencer Pratt Batman Campaign Ad

By Charlie Curran

An AI Batman-style campaign ad for Spencer Pratt's run for LA mayor, made by Charlie Curran. Pratt's team says it wasn't commissioned and that fans are making tribute videos on their own, but Pratt reposted it to millions of followers ahead of his debate with incumbent Karen Bass. Famous IP, famous music and real politicians: the chat called it Dor Brothers lite and outrage bait. We showed it as a warning of the AI propaganda coming with every big election, and the poll answered with the most 3s of the night.

“Essentially propaganda is going to be coming through AI videos, whether politicians say they want it directly or not.”Chris Branch · ▶ 13:24

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03 · ▶ on the show at 17:00

Luma Dream Brief Entry and Behind the Scenes

By Yigit Kirca

Yigit Kirca's entry for the Luma Dream Brief, where the brief was to reimagine Luma as a new product. He made it a premium sports brand: "Am I ready? Wrong question." The behind-the-scenes was the real gift, showing his Premiere timeline next to the ad and his note that 90% of the time went into the edit. Chris loved the beat, the pacing and how on brand it felt, and applauded any creator who shows their workings. The vote was mostly 1s, with a few 2s and a single 3.

“There's a lot more to this AI stuff than just prompting a few scenes that 15 seconds Seedance gives you.”Chris Branch · ▶ 19:50

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04 · ▶ on the show at 22:14

Mercedes-Benz G-Class Spec Ad

By Simon Meyer

Simon Meyer's spec commercial for Mercedes-Benz, made with Invideo's new AI agent, Agent One, in a post sponsored by Invideo. Chris was sure he'd seen it before, and he had: Simon made the same concept around 10 months earlier, and one viewer remembered the original's child's hand ageing on the wheel. Suggested on the day by Eric, it drew a wall of 1s. Chris's point: with agents generating the clips, the idea, the reference images and the boards matter more than ever.

“Ideas matter more than anything now, guys.”Chris Branch · ▶ 24:40

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05 · ▶ on the show at 27:08

Sincitium (Runway Big Pitch Contest)

By Contamination, Javier De La Chica, Guillermo Miranda

A Runway Big Pitch Contest entry from Contamination, Javier De La Chica and Guillermo Miranda, whom Chris met at Bionic Worlds. The art direction, music, sound design and even the clean logo outro won him over, along with multi-character dialogue scenes and a style that holds from shot to shot. It was his highlight of the first half. One viewer, JK, wanted shots held a little longer. Later in the show a viewer reported that Sincitium had just been named the contest's overall winner.

“That art direction, that music, the sound design, all of it. It was so good.”Chris Branch · ▶ 30:01

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06 · ▶ on the show at 32:56

N.E.X.U.S. Confidential (Runway Big Pitch Contest)

By Chuck Arnold

A three-minute Runway Big Pitch Contest entry by Chuck Arnold, submitted to the show: two agents in a stylish mid-century world of secret agencies, rogue geniuses and polished lies. Paul called it James Bond, the chat said Man from U.N.C.L.E., and the chat assumed the dry humour was British. Chuck, watching live, is from Tennessee and said he made it for himself. He shared the toolkit in the chat: Seedance, Nano Banana Pro, Premiere and After Effects. Not a single 3 came in.

“That one was incredibly well referenced to the time period. Everything felt genuine to that time period.”Chris Branch · ▶ 36:51

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07 · ▶ on the show at 40:35

Octo Blues

By Stéphane Tranquillin

Octo is a giant octopus in New York who is brilliant at everything, from basketball to a 12-minute tasting menu, but never accepted. His friend Emma at the New York Aquarium tells him: don't overthink, use your ink. So he becomes the only artist painting with his own ink. Stéphane credits Seedance at the end, and Chris said that kind of shot-to-shot character continuity would be hugely expensive in CGI. It was the first straight row of 1s, and with 22 of them, the most 1s of the night.

“CGI and VFX is extraordinarily expensive to pull off this octopus character so consistently from shot to shot.”Chris Branch · ▶ 43:19

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08 · ▶ on the show at 46:07

Untitled Pigeon Animation

By Marko Slavnic

A 47-second animation with no title, made in a few hours with a handful of generations, in which pigeons argue over whether the thing they've found is a phone and who should push the button. It went viral everywhere, and Runway shared it on LinkedIn as made with Runway. Chris called it Pixar-looking but fun, unique and nowhere near slop, with dialogue that really works. Straight 1s again, and a prediction that kids' storytelling on YouTube could become a billion-dollar AI industry.

“I think kids storytelling through YouTube specifically is going to be a billion-dollar AI industry in itself, if YouTube allows this stuff.”Chris Branch · ▶ 49:33

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09 · ▶ on the show at 53:11

Missed

By Louis Iruela

A short film from Louis Iruela built on a simple idea: how often we trade real moments for distractions that feel urgent but aren't, and never notice the moments we miss. Chris loved the colour grading, the music, the editing pace and the characters, and the chat said it cut deep for parents. It led into a conversation about screens and children, from Australia's under-16 social media ban to the UK's coming vote. One viewer argued it could have been shot without AI, but the poll was overwhelmingly 1s.

“If you are a parent watching that, you definitely feel like, when do I introduce screens to my kids?”Chris Branch · ▶ 56:23

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10 · ▶ on the show at 1:02:09

Chronicles of Bone, Chapter One: A Vengeful Fairy

By Kavan the Kid

Chapter one of season one of Kavan the Kid's Chronicles of Bone, now a Magnific Original and one of the biggest original AI series going. We watched the first six minutes of 19: a funeral oath, a grieving Tinker Bell and a brutal fight. The chat reached for Game of Thrones. Chris had watched Kavan's Magnific breakdown: a simple template with no music, just dialogue and sound effects, and character sheets from every angle for the three-faced mask. Kavan is set for his own dedicated episode.

“I watched it thinking we're now at the point where they're saying to creators, create me a film. I don't even think they have to use the word AI in it now.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 1:10:35

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11 · ▶ on the show at 1:13:47

The Quarry

By Uncanny Harry

The film behind this episode's title. Uncanny Harry abandoned The Quarry partway through, busy with his work at Promise, but shared it anyway: a conventional drama from a script he wrote over 15 years ago, about a mum taking her son Tyler on a day out to a fenced-off quarry. The casting, the accents, the colour grade and the camera shake left Chris calling it the best unfinished piece he'd seen, and Andrew compared it to Adolescence. The chat kept forgetting it was AI.

“I think this is the most realistic AI video I've seen.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 1:19:20

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12 · ▶ on the show at 1:21:45

Overture

By Dave Clark

The first of two Dave Clark films back to back, a reminder of the early days of the show when Dave had something new every week. Overture runs three minutes ten, with hardly any dialogue in its opening scenes, as the last humans run out of food. Dave's post says we can stop calling them AI films now: the quality is undeniable, so story, voice and filmmaking matter more than ever. Chris was struck by the violin cutting out on the splash into the pond. Not one 2 or 3 came in.

“Again, this is top tier stuff now. What we're looking at is poetry in motion.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 1:27:00

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13 · ▶ on the show at 1:29:05

Disastership

By Dave Clark

Dave Clark always wanted to make a film where a breakup happens at the end of the world, and he made this one on a Friday night with an idea and some Red Bull, as his post puts it. A couple fighting in a parked car are interrupted by an incoming impact, and it ends with them kissing as everything shatters. Andrew liked the happy-but-not ending and the contrast with The Quarry: Uncanny Harry nails UK television, Dave nails American. The opening car scene came from a prompt Dave gave away on X.

“It also made me think of the Uncanny Harry style versus this style, because Uncanny Harry, very UK style. This was very American style as well.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 1:33:46

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14 · ▶ on the show at 1:34:47

Disastership Prompt Test

By Paul Parsons

Our producer's quick test of Dave Clark's shared prompt, made an hour or so before the show. Paul built a character sheet for each of the two characters and a background of the car interior, then fed those three inputs plus Dave's prompt template into Seedance, getting a 15-second clip of the opening argument. Two characters, male and female, delivering separate lines in one shot used to be very hard. Paul promised to post Dave's full prompt as a comment on the YouTube video after the show.

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15 · ▶ on the show at 1:37:25

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By Brett Stuart

A 15-minute short film by Brett Stuart, made in four days using 250,000 Runway credits; we watched the first five minutes. His post says the all-nighters nearly broke him, but it's the thing he's most proud of making in film or AI. Almost entirely wordless, with sound design that gave Chris chills and a manga influence Andrew picked up on. The chat costed it at anywhere from about $2,500 on a plan to around $10,000, and Andrew hopes it gets him commissioned. Straight 1s.

“I really hope this guy gets commissioned to do something and not only makes that money back, but makes way more than that back because he's taken a gamble on himself.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 1:43:59

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16 · ▶ on the show at 1:45:45

The Adventures of Reemo Green: Breaking Into Black Holes

By Neural Viz

Neural Viz is back after months away, and Chris could not have been happier. Written, directed, edited and sound designed by Neural Viz, this Reemo Green episode is a heist into a gravity vault where ten seconds inside costs a century outside, complete with a character falling asleep in his own flashback. The visuals have levelled up from talking-head comedy to action and consistent characters; Andrew compared it to Grand Theft Auto going from top-down to 3D. Twelve 1s and nothing else.

“The flashbacks, the cuts, the comedy, the writing. It's back, guys. It's back.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:54:05

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17 · ▶ on the show at 1:55:34

The Patchwright (Cyberpunk Short Film)

By Gossip Goblin

A hybrid of voice actors, traditional animation and AI from Gossip Goblin, real name Zack London, who Chris met on a panel in Cannes. A fugitive android visits the Patchwright, an unlicensed body mechanic, to trace a fragment of a childhood memory. Gossip Goblin is a big Midjourney advocate, which shows in the heavy stylisation. The chat saw Hellboy, Guardians of the Galaxy and Fallout in it, and Andrew said that if he were Hollywood, he'd be looking hard at this.

“These are the best of the best, doing insane storytelling, building crazy worlds that are so believable and so watchable.”Chris Branch · ▶ 2:02:27

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18 · ▶ on the show at 2:06:26

DEM (DirtyCtrl Music Video)

By DirtyCtrl, Higgsfield

A three-and-a-half-minute music video for the artist DirtyCtrl, produced at Higgsfield with Soul Cinema for character consistency and Seedance 2 for dynamic movement. A band heads out to play like it's the last show on earth, and Andrew called it his favourite music video yet. The Dor Brothers asked in the chat who made it, and that was the problem: Higgsfield doesn't name its creators, and Chris wants studios to credit their creative directors the way agencies do. Straight 1s.

“That's my favourite music video I've seen.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 2:10:26

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19 · ▶ on the show at 2:16:33

NORM 20

By The Dor Brothers

The live surprise. The Dor Brothers posted it seconds before messaging Chris on WhatsApp, and Paul downloaded it mid-show. Norm, 28 and drifting, falls for a hustle guru, becomes one, and comes to grief in the Amazon, and the satire runs all the way to an upsell at his funeral: the whole course library for $297 with the code NORM20. Chris recognised it as the piece he'd been shown in Lisbon, and loved the character consistency. The poll widget failed, but the chat filled with 1s.

“Who else's show are the Dor Brothers just dropping into live links and then we get to close the show like that? Tell me, who else is getting that? Nobody.”Chris Branch · ▶ 2:24:30

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