AI content studio Particle 6 has officially begun development on Misaligned, its first full-length AI feature film to star AI actor Tilly Norwood.
Misaligned is being designed as a hybrid production with traditional film and TV professionals.
Particle 6 has retrained and upskilled its own team of more than 30 people. This team includes a mix of TV and filmmakers, actors, creatives, and technologists working across AI production. It also runs entry-level placements that bring new talent into AI production.
Misaligned is a comedy-drama “telling a coming-of-age story infused with existential AI chaos.”
Set inside the "Tillyverse," a surreal digital world located somewhere up in the Cloud, it follows Tilly, an AI being with no real body, no childhood, and no lived experience of her own… only access to everyone else's. Things spiral when a seductive rogue bot from the dark web convinces her to abandon her guardrails and begin developing desires, impulses, and ambitions of her own.
"Our work this year has proven something we suspected all along," said Eline van der Velden, CEO and Founder of Particle 6. "AI can support premium narrative filmmaking, but only with substantial amounts of human craft, skill, judgement, and time. That's not a limitation of the technology. That's the point. The filmmakers who thrive in the next decade will be the ones who bring decades of storytelling instinct to these new tools, and Misaligned is where we put that to work at feature scale."
Tilly Norwood AI talent studio Xicoia – founded by Particle6 CEO Eline van der Velden – recently made its first major hire, bringing in former Amazon Prime Video executive Mark Whelan as Head of Strategy and Operations. Discover more here.
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