We made the films first.
Five features with a crew of twelve. The tools were good. The space between them was where the film got lost.
Fifteen shots a scene, a hundred scenes a film. The work is choosing, and nothing we used was built for choosing.
The prompt stayed in a chat. The fix stayed in Photoshop. The reason a take was picked stayed in someone's head.
Chat, generation, the board, review and the edit handoff, with the trail kept on every frame.
The film was never in one place.
One shot passed through six tools. Every handoff dropped the reason it was made.
Built on real films.
Five feature length films. Seven hours on screen. This is the tool we needed, shaped by where the process broke.
One place. Every seat on the crew.
We are filmmakers, and Playground is something we wished we’d had when we were starting our AI journey. And we were designers, and engineers, earlier so we made it.
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