An Artlist AI animated holiday short: First Flight

AI-generated film by Artlist · 2025 · 2 min · Drama, Animation

About the film

Experience the next level of cinematic animation with AI This holiday season, we’re celebrating what’s possible when creativity meets cutting-edge AI filmmaking. This video is a 2-minute animated holiday film made entirely with AI tools. What once required $2–5 million budgets, 40+ crew members, and years of production, was created by a 3-person team in just 3 weeks — for under $3,000. This project bridges the gap between traditional animation and modern AI workflows, showcasing how AI animation, AI storytelling, and AI filmmaking tools can dramatically reduce cost, time, and technical barriers — without sacrificing cinematic quality. How we did it The team bypassed the traditional animation grind by building an optimized AI production pipeline, using: Kling AI for cinematic physics, realistic motion, and dynamic movement Nano Banana Pro for strong character consistency, expressive facial animation, and emotional acting The result? A polished, cinematic animated short tha

Made with

Kling (detected from the film’s published title and description)

Future Lantern score

29 out of 100, based on how much YouTube viewers like the film, weighted by audience size. 100,356 views and 613 likes on YouTube.

Watch on YouTube. Hosted on YouTube by Artlist; Future Lantern links to the original upload.