AI video
Contents
Evolution of Capabilities
Early
- November 2016: Sync-Draw
- April 2021: GODIVA
- October 2022: Meta Make-a-video
- October 2022: Google Imagen video
2023
- April 2023: Will Smith eating spaghetti
- April 2023: Runway Gen 2
- April 2023: Nvidia latents
- December 2023: Fei-Fei Li
2024
Early 2024
- January 2024: Google VideoPoet
- January 2024: Google Lumiere
- February 2024: OpenAI Sora
- April 2024: Vidu
- May 2024: Veo
- May 2024: Kling
- June 2024: Luma DreamMachine
- June 2024: RunwayML Gen-3 Alpha
- July 2024: Examples:
- July 2024: haiper.ai
August 2024
- August 2024: Hotshot (examples, more examples)
- August 2024: Luma Dream Machine v1.5
- August 2024: Examples:
- Runway Gen3 music video
- Runway Gen3 for adding FX to live action (another example)
- Midjourney + Runway Gen3: Hey It’s Snowing
- Flux/LoRA image + Runway Gen3 woman presenter
- McDonald’s AI commercial
- Sora used by Izanami AI Art to create dreamlike video and by Alexia Adana to create sci-fi film concept
September 2024
- September 2024: Hailuo Minimax (examples)
- September 2024: Examples:
- Space colonization
- Consistent characters
- Sea monsters
- Music video
- Animated characters
- AI influencer
- Ten short examples
- Seven examples
- Clip from horror film
- "Gone" featuring astronaut and something ethereal
- Two dancers (surprisingly good consistency despite movement)
- Music video about flying
- The Paperclip Maximizer
- La Baie Aréa
- "To Dear Me" by Gisele Tong (winner of AI shorts film festival)
- Various scenes
- Directing emotions
- September 2024: Kling 1.5 (examples, showing emotions)
- September 2024: Examples:
- Runway video-to-video to restyle classic video games
- Realistic presenter
- Skateboarding (demonstrates getting closer to meaningfully simulating motion/physics)
- Examples of short clips with cinematic feel
- Short: 4 Minutes to Live
- Short: Neon Nights (Arcade)
- Random Access Memories: AI-generated, but then projected onto Kodak film stock. Gives the final output some of the dreamy analog quality we associate with nostalgic footage
- Sora used to make a sort of weird dreamlike video
October 2024
- October 2024: Pika v1.5, including Pikaffects (explode, melt, inflate, and cake-ify; examples: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
- October 2024: Examples:
- AI avatar with good lip-sync
- Battalion: 5 minute short about war
- Short film: To Wonderland (credits)
- 9 to 5: Created with Luma Dream Machine keyframes and camera features; music by Suno
- October 2024: Meta Movie Gen
- October 2024: Examples:
- AI Avatar (using HeyGen)
- Generic Movies
- Pyramid-flow (open source) model: examples
- Building the Pyramids
- People showing realistic emotion (using Hailuo AI)
- Keyframes and Luma AI to make novel speed-ramp motion
- October 2024: Pollo AI platform offers selection among a diversity of video models
- October 2024: Genmo Mochi 1 (open source)
- October 2024: Examples:
- Meta Movie Gen examples
- Emotional range of Minimax
- Car commercial: Bear
- Diner conversation
- Loved and Lost (a meditation on grief)
November 2024
- November 2024: Examples:
- Pasta Doble
- Bird protecting young
- Camera moving around sushi
- Various examples of Hailuo AI
- Trains
- Light of Imagination
- Bringing historic images to life
- Plants dancing
- Insect on tree
- Trailers for The Silmarillion and The Fall of Gondolin (by Abandoned Films)
- Moody sci-fi
- Migration (made by combining Runway ML Gen3-Alpha and traditional animation)
- After the Winter (music made using Suno v4)
- Horror: Ridge to Southwest
- The Gardener (by Machine Mythos)
- Coca-Cola holiday ad and parody thereof
- A Dream Within A Dream (by PZF, selected for the Czech International AI Film Festival)
- Making Friends (by Everett World; see also Childhood Dream and City Echoes)
- Anime: test shots, Ultimate Ceremony, Echoes of Love
- Echoes of Grace (KakuDrop using Sora)
- Morphing hands, hands and faces (Vibeke Bertelsen)
- Dragon Ball Z live action
- Pitch Black (abstract and dark)
- Animals Running (zoomed-in ultra-wide camera)
- Dreams of Tomorrow (panning shots of high-tech car, Scottish manor)
- Desert Planet Cinematics
- November 2024: Leaked Sora turbo model; examples, Dog chasing Cat in snow
December 2024
- December 2024: Examples:
- Realistic (Minimax by Hailuo AI)
- Trailer for Paradise Lost (to be released on Sandwatch AI)
- Music video example with consistent characters
- Human expressions (u/Kind_Distance9504 on Reddit, using Hailuo)
- Vodafone ad: The Rhythm Of Life
- 10 minute Batman film
- December 2024: Tencent Hunyuan Video open-source video model (example)
- December 2024: Sora release (examples)
- December 2024: MinT video improves consistency and control (preprint, examples)
- December 2024: Google Veo 2 (examples, more examples, natural movement examples, abstract, realistic physics, crowds, dancing, animals)
- December 2024: Pika 2.0 with Scene Ingredients
- December 2024: Examples:
- Synthetic Youth: Takenoko Zoku · Made by Emi Kusano with Sora
- Car race (Higgsfield AI storytelling)
- Slicing meat; comparison of modern video generators
- Challenging prompt: A cat roars while looking at its reflection in the mirror but instead sees itself as a lion roaring (Veo 2) (comparison to other models)
- Anime trailer
- Snorlax at Mount Fuji and Psyduck at Colosseum (Kling 1.6)
- Horror visuals (with MMAudio sound)
- The Heist (Veo 2)
- Various Veo 2 examples
- Live Action Titans
- Cats Cooking
- Aesthetic from alternate timelines: 1, 2, 3
- Examples approaching cinematic quality
- Cosmic Spider (winner at AI film festival)
- Trailer for Newton's Cradle (full film on 2025-01-01)
- Car vs. Jet drag race
- California Monsters
- Various examples (Hailuo AI)
- Will Smith eating spaghetti (c.f. April 2023)
- Sorceress and Arachnid Steed (Kling v1.6)
- Music video (Hailuo AI)
- Akụkọ (Story) (22 minute short) - A Lagos Boy's Thrilling Snack Run Nightmare
- Son of the Dragon (8 minute short)
- Endless Journey music video (music by Suno)
- Once Again (retrospective)
- Fade Out (Veo 2)
- Roadkill (12 minute short)
2025
January 2025
- January 2025: Progress over the last 1.5 years, by comparing Runway Gen 2 and Veo 2.
- January 2025: Examples:
- Delivery (unofficial Nike ad)
- Gucci ad (Sora)
- Conquest
- Newton's Cradle (6 minute short)
- Singer
- Brain vomit (music video)
- Vibe (Kling v1.6)
- Will Smith eating spaghetti (c.f. April 2023, December 2024)
- Zorgop Knows All (2 minute short)
- The Breach (2 minute short; Veo2, Runway ActOne, MMaudio)
- Aesthetics from an alternate timeline
- Immortal Awakens
- The Faded Line
- Dear Dad
- Mad Max chase
- Patience is Key
- The Almost Famous Show (talent show parody)
- Proof-of-concept trailer for a medieval adult animated series
- Variety (unofficial Cadbury ad)
- Kitsune (5 minute animated short, Veo 2)
- January 2025: MiniMax Hailuo Subject Reference enables consistent characters (examples)
- January 2025: AI (de-aging deepfakes, Magnific) used in the film "Here".
- January 2025: Luma Ray2
- January 2025: Pika 2.1 (examples)
- January 2025: Examples:
- Light projections onto people (challenging task, Ray2)
- BMW ad
- John Wick in Severance (Hunyuan vid2vid)
- Biopic (7 minutes)
- Give It To Me (music video)
- Where do we go from here? (music video, Veo 2)
- Party like there's no tomorrow (music video)
- S.T.O.R.I. (Midjourney and Pika 2.1)
February 2025
- February 2025: Examples:
- Long Steampunk scene
- City destruction
- Consistent character acting
- Kaiju Katastrophe (by Mean Orange Cat)
- The Greyhound
- Fluid simulation video2video
- High resolution macro shots
- Chrysalids
- Boring realistic images (HunyuanVideo w/ LoRA)
- Anime intro (Hunyuan w/ custom LoRAs)
- Automotive ad test (Kling w/ custom model)
- Random cinematic clips (Midjourney and Kling)
- Crossing Paths
- Miniature food
- Animals
- Star Wars - The Ghost's Apprentice (Fan Film)
- Ray2 image-to-video examples
- New Horizons (miniatures going to Mars)
- Black Sun (trailer)
- AI avatars (Argil AI)
- Adding elements to real video (other example)
- Glitch
- Anime: sci-fi (Ray2), sci-fi (Ray 2), 90s sci-fi (Luma) and moody (Midjourney and Ray2)
- February 2025: Meta VideoJAM
- February 2025: ByteDance OmniHuman-1
- February 2025: ByteDance Goku (paper, examples)
- February 2025: Step-Video-T2V open-source model (paper, code, demo, examples)
- February 2025: Pika Pikaswaps (examples of modifying regions, swapping items)
- February 2025: Alibaba Wan 2.1 open-source (examples)
- February 2025: Twin AI: compose videos with provided character, object, location (example)
- February 2025: Examples:
- Infected (Pika swaps and additions)
- Hostile Government Takeover (Veo2)
- Dual Mechanism (Pikaframes 2.2)
March 2025
- March 2025: Examples:
- Doors (music video)
- Drum and Bass (music video; Kling, audio from Riffusion)
- Woman's face (Sora)
- Skating (Ray2)
- Filming commercial on Mars
- Original Source commercial (AI and real footage)
- Time-lapses (Pika 2.2)
- Hallucination
- Macro video of bubbles
- March 2025: HunyuanVideo-I2V image-to-video
- March 2025: Google Whisk Animate (based on Veo2, examples)
- March 2025: Examples:
- Recursion (horror) (Kling)
- Will Smith Eating Spaghetti while Sitting Inside a Bag (c.f. April 2023, December 2024, January 2025)
- Paper Jam (Kling with custom workflows to enable precise control)
- Cinematic shots (Google Whisk and Luma)
- Perfunctory Horizons
- A Hard Winter
- Consistent character example
- Anthropomorphic Animals
- Realistic (influencer-style)
- I Feel Cultured (music video with surrealist vibes)
- journey of utmost importance
- Karen: Unleashed
- Yarn Cat
- Ned's Wet Deli (Runway)
- BOOTS, a.k.a. "Our enemies are cartoon monsters" (music video based on poem by Rudyard Kipling; Veo2)
- Flying in a dream: 1, 2
- Commercial for Mercedes-Benz and FYI Radio
- Selfie video (Luma)
- Podcasts: Rottenly Roasted and Worst Date Ever (Imagen 3, Hedra, Elevenlabs, Topaz)
- Ambience (Midjourney, Luma)
- The Bridge (2 minute short; Veo2)
- Pulp Fiction (Wan video editing)
- Camera Controls (Luma Ray2)
- March 2025: Hedra Character 3
- March 2025: Open Sora v2 (code)
- March 2025: Amazon Prime debuts House of David, with special effects created by Wonder Project using a combination of traditional and AI methods (reportedly including Midjourney and Runway)
- March 2025: Examples:
- What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings? (OpenAI GPT-4o in-context image generation, Kling)
- RŌHKI
- Why
- Commercial for Puma (research/test)
- Commercial for KFC (concept ad)
- March 2025: Runway ML Gen-4
- The Lonely Little Flame
- The Herd
- The Retrieval
- NYC is a Zoo
- Scimmia Vede (music video)
- More examples: various, art direction, mannequins, taxi, small things, long shot (1m)
April 2025
- April 2025: Examples:
- Age of Beyond
- Commercial for Coca-Cola (Higgsfield)
- Anime scene (3m) (Wan 2.1 with LoRa)
- Taxes then Death (Pika multikeyframe)
- April 2025: Krea Video Re-Style
- April 2025: ByteDance DreamActor-M1 performance transfer
- April 2025: Examples:
- Mercs (Midjourney v7, Ray2)
- Cat at theme park
- Timelapse history (Runway Gen4)
- Examples for use in advertising
- Sci-fi scapes
- Avα
- The Bureau
- Beaver and Sock (3m)
- Organic Waste (5m) (Runway)
- Fly (Runway Gen4)
- April 2025: Alibaba FantasyTalking lipsync (paper, examples)
- April 2025: Tencent Hunyuan Sonic image animation/lipsync to audio (examples)
- April 2025: ByteDance Seaweed-7B (preprint, examples)
- April 2025: Kling 2.0 (video)
- April 2025: Skyworks SkyReels V2 (open-source, unlimited extension; examples)
- April 2025: Sand AI Magi-1 (open source, unlimited extension; examples, more examples)
- April 2025: Examples:
- Mars 2035 (3m) (Kling 2.0)
- Kingdom (dragon battle, 3m)
- Reflection (3m) (Gen4)
- Pizza Galaxy (1m) (MJ and Gen4)
- Snoop Dogg music video: Last Dance with Mary Jane (blend of traditional and AI effects)
- Realistic human motion
- Inception loop (Gen4)
- Tuesday (1m) (Gen4)
- Deus in Machina Automata (4m) (Gen4)
- Outsiders (3m music video)
May 2025
- May 2025: LTX-Video 13B (code, examples, more examples)
- May 2025: HeyGen Avatar IV (examples: sci-fi, Come Closer, singing, various)
- May 2025: Tencent HunyuanCustom
- May 2025: Examples:
- Iris (1.5m) (Midjourney, Luma, Runway)
- Mars and Siv: "No Vacancy" (episode 1, 6m) (Runway)
- Go to the East Wing (dreamlike, Luma)
- Yu Lanter showreel (Higgsfield)
- Cyberpunk anime (Luma)
- Alien animals (Runway)
- America's Funniest AI Home Videos (3m)
- Editing POV shots from AR glasses (Runway)
- May 2025: Gen:48 Fourth Edition winners:
- Home (3m)
- The King's Secret (2m)
- May 2025: Viggle Live enables real-time avatar control
- May 2025: Google Veo 3 (examples: conversation, cooking, singing, simple story, cinematic action sequence, car show interviews, We Can Talk, podcat, various, camera moves)
- May 2025: Examples:
- Will Smith Eating Spaghetti (c.f. April 2023, December 2024, January 2025, March 2025)
- Bob from Marketing (Veo 3)
- He is King (16m)
- Prompt Theory, part 2, Afterlife (3m) (Veo3)
- My Robot and Me (3m) (Veo, Runway)
- The Internet's Over (Veo3)
- Before Colours Fade (2m) (Midjourney, Kling)
June 2025
- June 2025: Examples:
- Bigfoot ASMR
- Talking (HeyGen Avatar IV upgrade)
- Where are all the aliens? (2m)
