TCL Debutes Five New AI-Generated Short Films, Ranked from Tolerable to Unbearable
Earlier this year, TCL released a trailer for Next Stop Paris, an AI-animated short film that was widely panned for its lifeless expressions and strange animation. However, TCL is not giving up on AI-generated films just yet. The company has debuted five new short films on its TCLtv Plus free streaming platform, and we have to see what else it’s cooked up.
The new films are ranked from tolerable to “I wish I could unsee this,” and here are the details:
5. Sun Day – This futuristic short film follows a young girl who lives on a planet where the sun only comes out every seven years. The film’s AI-generated sequences become hard to follow, and the voice acting is hampered by lack of facial expression.
4. Project Nexus – This short film is meant to depict animated characters, but it’s hard to watch due to the poor facial expressions and voice acting. The story is somewhat compelling, but it’s cut short and left on a cliffhanger.
3. The Best Day of My Life – This docufiction-style short film uses AI to retell the story of a man who lost his leg in an avalanche. The majority of the film is an AI flashback, showing clips of the man and his friend traversing the snowy mountaintop. However, the story starts to lose credibility when it shows an AI-generated image of a severed leg and gets trippy with a zebra morphing into a lion.
2. The Audition – This short film starts off somewhat promising, with an actor auditioning for a role in front of a picky casting director. However, it devolves into weird and unfunny attempts at comedy, with the AI-generated actor trying on various accents and deepfaking into different scenes from iconic movies.
1. The Slug – This film is a masterpiece of bad filmmaking. A woman with arthritis tries to reach out to her family and doctor, but they don’t pick up. As she looks longingly out the window, she places a slug outside. Then, things get real weird, and her body gradually morphs into a slug. It’s honestly kind of disturbing, and viewer discretion is advised.
