Over the past months, Asger Lindgaard and I, Angel Delgado, have been working on a fictional short film series set in the European Union. Our first story follows a blind politician who stumbles into a corruption scandal, a dark comedy about power, perception, and the absurdity of politics.
We’re trying something new: combining hand-drawn art and scripted scenes with generative AI to create a stylized old noir look, animated world. It’s an ambitious process, and honestly? It’s been frustrating.
We use tools like LTX Studio to generate rough storyboards, which we then heavily rework in Photoshop. From there, we test different animation platforms likeWAN, Runway, and others. The biggest challenge has been character consistency: faces change between frames, styles shift without warning, and scenes that should flow end up disjointed. These inconsistencies force us to spend much more time and money than we anticipated just to make it all feel coherent.
But there’s been one bright spot: using MiniMax Live Illustrations on FreepikAI has given us the best results so far for the kind of stylized animations we’re aiming for. It’s not perfect, but it feels like a step in the right direction, closer to the tone and rhythm we’ve envisioned from the beginning.
We’re still in the research phase, still chasing that delicate balance between automation and intention. Next steps include voicing and sound design, which we hope will breathe life into this surreal, satirical world. It’s been exhausting, but something real is taking shape through the friction.
Sometimes the future arrives in fragments, and we’re here, piecing them together.
We will keep you updated for more!
You can see a little sneak-peek of how it is looking for now.
This style may change in the final version.
