{"id":249186,"date":"2025-12-24T12:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/249186\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T12:06:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:06:30","slug":"genai-video-platform-artlist-launches-holiday-short-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/249186\/","title":{"rendered":"GenAI Video Platform Artlist Launches Holiday Short ‘First Flight’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holiday magic meets tech trends in\u00a0First Flight, a new generative AI-produced take on the Christmastime animation tradition. The spot was crafted as a showcase for Artlist (artlist.io<\/a>), an online platform for video creators hosting a suite of AI tools for video, image and voice, as well as creative assets made by artists around the world.<\/p>\n

The film centers on a little fawn, who aspires to grow up as big, strong and graceful as the rest of his reindeer herd. With lots of practice and a touch of seasonal magic, he finally takes flight for his first Christmas.<\/p>\n

Artlist wanted to create a film that both showcased how genAI tools make it possible for small teams to create projects once reserved for big studios, and the potential for emotional storytelling using the controversial technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis two-minute video about a little deer who dared to dream was created to show that AI tools can tell stories that move people, just like any other creative tool,\u201d said Sharon \u2018Thales\u2019 Refael, Artlist\u2019s Director of Creative AI. \u201cIt demonstrates that consistency, emotion, and narrative are possible, and that creators now have the independence to say, \u2018I have an idea,\u2019 and begin working on it that very same day. What once required the resources of the world\u2019s biggest animation studios, months of work and enormous budgets, is now within reach.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the platform,\u00a0First Flight was created entirely with AI tools by a team of just three people, on a budget of less than $3,000 dollars, in under a month. The AI production pipeline utilized Kling AI for physics and realistic motion; and Nano Banana Pro for character consistency and facial animation.<\/p>\n

\u201cMuch of the conversation today is focused on the technology itself, AI or not AI, but we wanted to show that it\u2019s simply another tool. A tool that allows creators to bring ideas to life faster and more affordably than ever before. Technology alone doesn\u2019t connect a video to its audience. Storytelling does,\u201d Refael added. \u201cThere is a lot of resistance to AI-generated content, but that resistance often misses the point. What truly matters is how you tell a story \u2014 how you create emotion, spark interest, and make people care. The technology simply opens new possibilities and faster processes, while everything still revolves around storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n

The production of\u00a0First Flight was led by Artlist\u2019s Refael; VP Content Orit Bar-Niv; Head of AI Content Itamar Leopold; the AI Creative Lab members Angelica Libkind, Hadar Rosenthal and Adi Gabay; Senior AI Program Manager Moran Haruvi Brazg; sound designers Roni Abelha and Ziv Moran. The music is \u201cThis Life of Time\u201d by \u00a0Be\u00f2 and Yuval Semo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holiday magic meets tech trends in\u00a0First Flight, a new generative AI-produced take on the Christmastime animation tradition. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,30540,289,290,129793,18,10569,5568,19,17,89573,108112,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-249186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-animation","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-artlist","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-genai","15":"tag-generative-ai","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-kling-ai","19":"tag-nano-banana-pro","20":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115774461282245992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}