This project is a personal experiment in reimagining my traditional stop-motion film Almost Make It – you can check it here. Originally shot during the 2021 lockdown using DIY props—cardboard boxes, blankets as sky, iPhone XR, and basic lighting—it’s now reborn with AI-powered reskinning. Rather than just enhancing quality, AI helps reskin old footage and expand creative possibilities—camera angles, blending green-screen, even mo-cap elements and classic frame-by-frame animation.

It’s a proof-of-concept: a fusion of traditional craft and next-gen tech in film making.

Tool I’ve used on this experiment: ChatGPT, Kling, Runway ML. I haven’t tried Higgfields at that time yet, another great tool for film making by the way.

First thing I do is choose the style — the skin I want to apply on the original protagonist Sticky Bone figure. I’m quite into the clay style from Shaun the Sheep’s characters, so I picked that. I tested with some prompt iterations on ChatGPT — actually, after a lot of trial and error — until I got what I wanted. Then I used those photos as references for the key frames. After that, I used a regular AI tool to animate the key frames with directing prompts, just like a director directing a film.

Quite fun progress and stunning result, I think. I’m genuinely thrilled (and slightly nervous) to see how far new tech will take us next. I can’t wait to keep exploring, applying, and pushing the boundaries of emerging tools in future creative work.