The 2023 short Critterz is evolving into a full-length, AI-animated CG feature film from Vertigo Films (U.K.) and AI creative studio Native Foreign. The project has attached James Lamont and Jon Foster (Paddington in Peru, The Adventures of Paddington) to write the script.
The Critterz movie is being produced by Allan Niblo and James Richardson of Vertigo and Nik Kleverov for Native Foreign, with the original short’s director Chad Nelson as consulting producer and Jane Moore as executive producer for Vertigo.
The short film by Nelson, a creative specialist at OpenAI, was billed as the first AI film to combine images generated by the company’s Dall-E system with traditional animation techniques. Featuring a cast of unique monster-ish characters, Critterz screened at Annecy, Cannes Lions and Tribeca, and was nominated for a Producers Guild Innovation Award. Native Foreign recently released Critterz: Remastered, demonstrating the GenAI tech advancement via OpeAI’s Sora.
[Source: Variety]
