Robort (A.I. Short Film)

To create this short film, I utilized AI extensively, but there’s a significant amount of human effort and creativity behind it. It’s not just about generating prompts and producing a film—far from it. The idea for the film was entirely human. I don’t believe AI can come up with great story ideas on its own, so I didn’t use AI for the initial idea phase. I wrote the basic outline of the script without any AI assistance. Once the story was clear, I started developing the characters. Through trial and error with text-to-image generators, I created Robert, the main character, the robots with their retrofuturistic look, and the rest of the characters. As I polished the script, I used AI as a creative collaborator for specific tasks. For example, I used AI to rewrite dialogues to match specific eras, styles, or tones—especially the lines for the robots. Instead of traditional methods involving cameras, real actors, musicians, and sound designers, etc, I used AI to generate the