AI Film Production
Leopati is an AI film production company. We build complete cinematic films — biography, narrative, branded — from concept and character design through animation, voice, sound and post, and deliver a finished master. We also create AI sequences that drop into live-action films, for scenes that cannot be shot.
The two hardest things in AI film are continuity and truth: keeping one character and one world stable across every scene, and — when the story is real — keeping every frame faithful to what actually happened rather than inventing around it. Both of our reference films were built around exactly those problems.
What we make
- Full AI films — biography, narrative, brand story, from concept to finished master
- AI sequences for live-action film — built and integrated into footage that was shot conventionally
- Historical and period reconstruction — visuals faithful to a real story
- AI voice and narration, sound design and post-production
Continuity, and staying faithful to a true story
We do not prompt whole scenes and accept what comes back. The character is created and locked first, each environment is generated separately, and the two are composited and animated together — the same layered method behind all our video work. It is what keeps one face and one world stable from the first shot to the last.
A true story adds a second demand on top of that. Every visual has to stay faithful to the historical record, not just look cinematic — the character, the period detail, the setting all have to hold together and hold to what actually happened. On St. Nicholas that was the whole job: a consistent character and a consistent period world across four scenes, faithful to the story throughout.
Process and timeline
1. Story and reference. A full film starts from the script or the source material; a sequence starts from the footage it has to live inside.
2. Character and world design, locked. Fixed before any scene is built, so everything downstream stays consistent.
3. Scene construction. Each scene generated as its own world, around its moment in the story.
4. Voice and sound. AI narration where the film needs it — as on St. Nicholas — plus sound design.
5. Composite and animate. Character into environment, then brought to life with the camera movement the scene calls for.
6. Edit, grade, post. Cut, colour and finish to a release-ready master.
Timelines from real work. St. Nicholas, a 1:32 biography across four scenes with AI narration, took 27 days. Zarafel, three integrated sequences of 20 seconds or more, took 7 — faster because it slotted into an existing live-action film rather than building a whole world from nothing. A full film and an integrated sequence are different jobs on different clocks, and we quote them that way.
St. Nicholas — AI cinematic biography
| Client | Private company, United States |
| Type | Full AI biography film |
| Runtime | 1:32 |
| Scenes | 4 |
| Production time | 27 days |
| Voice | AI narration |
| Scope | Creative direction, character design, historical reconstruction, AI voice, sound design, post production |
Made for a private company in the United States: a realistic cinematic biography of St. Nicholas. The challenge was continuity of two kinds at once — one character and one period world held stable across four scenes, and the whole thing faithful to the historical story rather than invented around it. Narration was AI-produced and cut to the film.
Zarafel — an AI sequence inside a live-action film
| Type | AI sequences integrated into live-action film |
| Sequences | 3, each 20 seconds or more |
| Production time | 7 days |
| Scope | Visual development, character continuity, camera movement, sound design, post production |
Zarafel is a different kind of job: three AI-built sequences created and dropped into a live-action film. Here the challenge was character consistency and camera movement — the generated footage had to move like the film around it and keep its character stable, so the cut between shot and generated never announces itself. It took 7 days because the world already existed; the work was making the AI belong inside it.
What we need from you
- The story or script — or the footage, if it is a sequence for an existing film
- Full film or integrated sequence — they are quoted differently
- Sources, for a true story — what the film has to stay faithful to
- Character and world direction — how the people and the setting should look
- Any constraints — brand rules, historical accuracy, tone
AI film production — common questions
How long does an AI film take to produce?
It depends on whether it is a full film or a sequence for existing footage. St. Nicholas, a 1:32 biography across four scenes with AI narration, took 27 days. Zarafel, three integrated sequences of 20 seconds or more, took 7 days because it fitted into a live-action film that already existed.
Can you integrate AI footage into a live-action film?
Yes. Zarafel is three AI-built sequences created and integrated into a live-action film, matched to the camera movement and continuity of the footage around them so the cut between real and generated is not obvious.
Can you keep a true story historically accurate?
Yes. On St. Nicholas, every visual was kept faithful to the historical record while holding one character and one period world consistent across all four scenes. Faithfulness to the story is treated as a requirement, not an afterthought.
Do you produce the voice and narration?
Yes. St. Nicholas used AI-produced narration, cut and timed to the film, alongside sound design and post-production.
How is an AI film priced?
Like all our video work, by the second of finished footage rather than by shooting day. A full film and an integrated sequence are quoted separately because they are different amounts of work. See our cost breakdown for the details.
Which tools do you use?
The same generative pipeline as the rest of our video work — see our AI music video production page for the full stack. AI voice production is added for films that need narration.
Start a film
Tell us the story, and whether it is a full film or a sequence for existing footage. We reply to every brief personally.