StarTrail: Building a New Species of Content Company
What “AI-native” actually means — and how rebuilding the whole production chain around AI, rather than bolting tools onto an old pipeline, changes what a small studio can make.
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Essays and case studies on how StarTrail makes theatrical-grade film, TV and animation with AI — the technology, the craft, and where the industry is going. Also published on Medium.
What “AI-native” actually means — and how rebuilding the whole production chain around AI, rather than bolting tools onto an old pipeline, changes what a small studio can make.
Why character performance — not image quality — is the hard problem in AI film, and how our proprietary performance layer turns a generative model into a directable instrument.
Behind the short that took first place at iQIYI's Nadou AIGC Venture Summit — and why the hardest thing to fake with AI is an ordinary school day.
The shift from one-off AI clips to repeatable, theatrical-grade production — and why China became the proving ground for AI-native studios.