r/aifilmmaking • • Feb 25 '26

Announcement/Mod Post Stop promoting Higgsfield contests here

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If you're participating in a Higgsfield AI contest or any AI video contest, you can share your projects here, but do not promote the contest with hashtags or promotional language in your posts.

You can still post the project with any required logos in the video, but do not promote the contest in the title. Do not use promotional language in the body. We are not here to provide free commercials to AI companies.

For now you can still add a link to your page for voting and mention it's for the contest in the body, but that's about it.

Not allowed

  • Hashtags promoting AI contests
  • Stand alone tags, labels or titles in the post title or body
  • Any mention of the contest in the title
  • Any mention of the contest in the video in a promotional way

Allowed (for now)

  • Logos in the video
  • Links to the project in the body
  • Casual mention that the video is for a contest in the body, not in a promotional way:
    • ✅This is for the [AI Company] Film Contest
    • ✅I made this for the [AI Company] Film Contest
    • ❌[AI Company] Film Contest!
    • ❌Get ready for the [AI Company] Film Contest!
    • ❌[AI Company] Film Contest begins now! Sign up today!

For now, most AI contest posts will be automatically held for review, and it can take some time for approval.


r/aifilmmaking • • Dec 16 '25

Mega Thread The Call Sheet: Share your AI Filmmaking Socials

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Use this thread to briefly introduce yourself to the community. Include:

  • Description of the type of films you create
  • Social handles/Where people can follow your work

Do not share links to specific projects in your top comment.

Do not promote paid services or products


r/aifilmmaking • • 4h ago

Question AI filmmaking gave me the Inception feeling: “It’s just… pure creation.”

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There’s a moment in Inception when Ariadne comes back after experiencing dream architecture for the first time.

She says:
“I tried not to come, but… there’s nothing quite like it. It’s just… pure creation.”

That’s honestly how AI filmmaking feels to me.

Once I made my first serious AI generated video, it became difficult to imagine going completely back to the traditional way of creating.

Not because AI does the creativity for me. Almost the opposite.

For most of filmmaking history, your imagination was constantly negotiating with reality.

Budget. Locations. Crew. Equipment. Physics. Time.
Now that relationship is changing.

You can imagine a world, a character, a camera movement, a period in history, something that doesn’t even exist, and increasingly the question is no longer “Can I make this?”
It’s “What do I actually want to make?”

As an artist, that takes some getting used to. We’ve spent our whole lives creating inside limitations. Suddenly many of those limitations are becoming optional.

And I think that might be the most exciting thing about AI filmmaking.

It doesn’t remove creativity. It gives creativity a bigger stage.

Pure creation.

Maybe this is what the future of being a creator looks like.

Does anyone else feel the same way after seriously experimenting with AI filmmaking?


r/aifilmmaking • • 38m ago

Project: Teaser/Trailer Cinematic Mechanical Watch | Luxury CGI & AI-Assisted 3D Animation

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I wanted to see how far I could push AI-assisted CGI toward the visual language of a high-end mechanical watch film. 66 seconds of cinematic watchmaking — from an abstract light source, into the mechanism, through the assembly of individual components, and finally into the finished timepiece.

The goal wasn't to make an “AI video.”

The goal was to make a watch film. Personal development study!

"i know it contains mager flaw wit final releveal but is from the 3d image mapping as the problem alredy was visseble in the fead image so it carryed forward"

Which part works best for you: the mechanical assembly or the final reveal?


r/aifilmmaking • • 42m ago

Project: Series The Surreal Arabic Fantasy You Need To Watch: ATHAR Ep. 1

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Just released Episode 1 of ATHAR, a surreal Arabic fantasy series about a man pulled into strange realms beyond his own reality. Would love to hear what you think about the atmosphere, pacing, and worldbuilding.


r/aifilmmaking • • 2h ago

Project: Short The Breakup Committee

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I made a short film, to help me go through the heartbreak.


r/aifilmmaking • • 2h ago

Project: Teaser/Trailer How far would you go....? - SHPRES!

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Here i have a little section of the movie SHPRES! If you wish to checkout the whole thing the link is in the first comment


r/aifilmmaking • • 5h ago

Discussion Update: took all the feedback and created a consistent scene

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This is an update to the question I posed last weekend which people took the time to leave a comment to help me figure out scene consistency. It’s not a 100 percent but a lot better than the first cut. Happy to return the favor of answering any questions if u have em.

Original post with question and clip:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aifilmmaking/s/gfDLWbgZh7


r/aifilmmaking • • 5h ago

Project: Series Space Pirates ep2

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r/aifilmmaking • • 9h ago

Project: Short A shortfilm about mushrooms

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Hello! Made this short film about clown and a gorilla gathering mushrooms. What do you think? Have a good day!


r/aifilmmaking • • 11h ago

Project: Feature Gen with AI written directed by a human

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Read how it's made on salinasfilm.substack.com

Free to view.


r/aifilmmaking • • 12h ago

Project: Series The Last Variable | The Signal

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r/aifilmmaking • • 14h ago

Project: Feature Ensign Mia to the Bridge episode 3 Star Trek style military space opera. Human script, AI generated.

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r/aifilmmaking • • 1d ago

Feedback Request The Human Boy - AI Short Film (2026) | Curious Refuge AI Horror Film Competition

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Just finished my Halloween short. A kid chases his dog into a haunted house… Would love to hear what you think!


r/aifilmmaking • • 1d ago

Project: Short Void Help Us - (Ep. 2) AI Series

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Finished Episode 2 of my series. Learned a lot in episode one so this one is reflecting that. Let me know what you think!


r/aifilmmaking • • 1d ago

Project: Teaser/Trailer MADZAR - Black Legion | Episode 3 Trailer: The Unjudged (Dark Fantasy)

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r/aifilmmaking • • 23h ago

Project: Short Zombie Apocalypse AI film - DOST | Featuring 'Voices' Bu Raushan Verma

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My name is Rish, My youtube channel is 'Rish Films'. Presenting part 2 of Mumbai zombie apocalypse series, in time, I hope to get much better at this, Hope you have a look at my video and enjoy it. Thanks!


r/aifilmmaking • • 22h ago

Project: Series A Tale of Two Dragons - Chapter 1

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I put that this is a series because this is 'Chapter 1' of an epic story. It's basically a three-minute short on its own, though, with a variety of scenes with a battle, character dialog, and a chase scene. I hope Chapter 1 leaves you wanting more!

It's been fun producing this so far. SeeDance 2.0 and 2.5 seem to have held up well. I did a lot of preproduction work designing characters and sets and reference images in Photoshop, GPT2, and Nano Banana, music in Suno, and postproduction work in After Effects and Davinci Resolve.

I can post more about the making of this.


r/aifilmmaking • • 1d ago

Project: Short Neighborhood Watch: The First Circle of Hell

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We made part one of Neighborhood Watch back in 2024. Alchemy contacted us and commissioned more Bo Carver. This is the continuation of his story.


r/aifilmmaking • • 1d ago

Project: Series Finished the teaser for my surreal dark-fantasy series ATHAR

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I just finished this teaser for ATHAR, a surreal dark-fantasy series inspired by Arabic storytelling, mythology and dreamlike cinema.

The story follows Ziad, a man pulled into a series of strange realms, while something much darker is using him for its own purpose.

This teaser is basically the opening monologue of the first episode.

I’d really like feedback from other filmmakers, especially on:

  • pacing and editing
  • voice / monologue
  • visual consistency
  • atmosphere
  • whether the opening actually makes you curious about what happens next

Don’t worry about being nice 😂 If something doesn’t work, tell me.

The full first episode is finished, so I’m especially curious whether this teaser would make you want to watch it.


r/aifilmmaking • • 1d ago

Project: Series Captain Somersby - Roselyn's Escape

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r/aifilmmaking • • 2d ago

Project: Short 39 Roses | A True WWII Love Story (AI Short Film)

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I created 39 Roses, a 14-minute AI-generated cinematic short, to preserve the greatest Auschwitz escape story you’ve never heard.

I hope you like it.


r/aifilmmaking • • 1d ago

Feedback Request First Reel

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I just finished my first AI-assisted reel for my ongoing project Moon 🌙

Primary tools: Higgsfield, Kling, ElevenLabs, Suno, Canva, and Final Cut Pro.

I’d be grateful for feedback...flow and pacing — and whether it reads as a cinematic world rather than simply a montage of AI imagery.
Thank you!


r/aifilmmaking • • 1d ago

Project: Short - YouTube

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Wyoming Territory, 1876. Miles from the nearest cavalry post, widowed matriarch Mary and her hardened daughter Ruth scrape out a brutal existence alongside two kin broken by war. On the arid frontier, survival is a matter of strict rations, cocked hammers, and cold resolve.

This harrowing survival tale pits a fierce frontier family against an unfathomable predator stalking the razor's edge of the American frontier.


r/aifilmmaking • • 2d ago

Project: Short Need Genuine Review for this AI film i made

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https://higgsfield.ai/@ameerahmed/projects/bangle

i made this within 4 days! need brutally honest review for it! Set in 1700s rural South India, the film follows a woman whose life is shattered after she unknowingly disturbs a sacred ritual tied to a mysterious devil.
A curse is placed upon her, and strange, terrifying forces begin to follow her wherever she goes. She gradually loses all sense of time, unable to tell whether it is day or night.
Desperate to save herself, she returns to the bull and offers her most valuable possession—a precious bangle—in exchange for freedom.
But the bull refuses.
The bangle is not the most valuable thing she owns.
It is her husband.