ONE YEAR of Work for TEN SECONDS of Film
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters cite it as a concrete example of working VFX artists using generative AI, Gaussian splatting and pose guidance in real filmmaking workflows, often to counter claims that AI video is only slop.
Recommended by 1 people across 2 different months, 2025 to 2026.
What it is
Corridor Crew's Niko tries to recreate The Matrix's rooftop bullet-time shot using only a personal computer and a couple of phones, relying on Gaussian splatting and AI video interpolation (Wan 2.1 + VACE in ComfyUI). The 30-minute video documents roughly a year of experimentation, sponsored by NVIDIA and Puget Systems.
What people said
Recommends echelon · 2026-01 · Hacker News · on “All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)”
The Corridor Crew [1] are luminaries in our field, and they are incredibly bullish on this tech. They've made dozens of essays and done tons of experiments showing that they think AI is going to be great for our field: [LINK] (scrub through the timelines to the end of these videos to see) [this video] [LINK] [LINK] Listen to them. Our entire industry pays attention to them, and they're right! [1] [LINK]
Recommends echelon · 2026-01 · Hacker News · on ““Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders”
> More of this, less AI The comment was great without this part. I'm sorry I'm going to go on a rant, but seeing this day in and day out really gets to me. I'm a filmmaker. AI is an incredible tool that is making VFX affordable to those of us with budgets. My friends and I are already using it in roto/comp workflows: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] (NSFW, bloody/gory - the effects look bad because we did this for a "film hackathon" and had an extremely short amount of time with no chance to fix the editing, script, lack of locations, etc. Under four hours for the VFX work.) Corridor Crew are making incredible stuff and teaching people how to do it: [LINK] [LINK] [this video] There's so much use by actual ar
Recommends echelon · 2026-08 · Hacker News · on “Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs”
That's a Higgsfield submarine ad. You should watch how Corridor Crew uses and evangelizes the tech, as it's far more honest: [LINK] [this video] [LINK] [LINK] (These are all fascinating.) Or an AI video tech reviewer like Theoretically Tim who covers the space as it evolves: [LINK]
Cites Stalker_Aloy · 2025-11 · Hacker News · on “Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans”
CorridorDigital recently used the tech to assist in remaking the rooftop bullet-time scene from The Matrix. It's used for making the environment instead of modeling it from scratch. [this video]
Cites esafak · 2025-11 · Hacker News · on “Nano Banana Pro”
That is an interesting error actually. It happened because both orientations of the sword are visually plausible, but not abrupt transitions from one to the other; there needs to be physical continuity. Here is a reproduction of the Matrix bullet time shot with and without pose guidance to illustrate the problem: [this video]
Cites echelon · 2026-01 · Hacker News · on “Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency”
This is a trip down memory lane! I remember when DeepDream first came out, and WaveNet not long after. I was immediately convinced this stuff was going to play a huge role in media production. I'm a big hobbyist filmmaker. I told all of my friends who actually work in film (IATSE, SAG, etc.) and they were so skeptical. I tried to get them to make an experimental film using DeepDream. This was about the same time Intel was dabbling in 360 degree filmmaking and just prior to Epic Games / Disney working on "The Volume". I bought a bunch of Kinects and built a really low-fidelity real time version of what Intel was working on. The sensors are VGA resolution, so it's not at all cinematic. When St
Cites echelon · 2026-01 · Hacker News · on “Show HN: ArtCraft AI crafting engine, written in Rust”
I've been a photons-on-glass filmmaker for over ten years, and I've been developing ArtCraft for myself, my friends, and my colleagues. All of my film school friends have a lot of ambition, but the production pyramid doesn't allow individual talent to shine easily. 10,000 students go to film school, yet only a handful get to helm projects they want with full autonomy - and almost never at the blockbuster budget levels that would afford the creative vision they want. There's a lot of nepotism, too. AI is the personal computer moment for film. The DAW. One of my friends has done rotoscoping with live actors: [LINK] The Corridor folks show off a lot of creativity with this tech: [LINK] [LINK] [
Cites echelon · 2026-02 · Hacker News · on “Show HN: ArtCraft AI crafting engine, written in Rust”
I've been a photons-on-glass filmmaker for over ten years, and I've been developing ArtCraft for myself, my friends, and my colleagues. All of my film school friends have a lot of ambition, but the production pyramid doesn't allow individual talent to shine easily. 10,000 students go to film school, yet only a handful get to helm projects they want with full autonomy - and almost never at the blockbuster budget levels that would afford the creative vision they want. There's a lot of nepotism, too. AI is the personal computer moment for film. The DAW. One of my friends has done rotoscoping with live actors: [LINK] The Corridor folks show off a lot of creativity with this tech: [LINK] [LINK] [
Cites echelon · 2026-02 · Hacker News · on “Show HN: I built an AI movie making and design engine in Rust”
I've been a photons-on-glass filmmaker for over ten years, and I've been developing ArtCraft for myself, my friends, and my colleagues. All of my film school friends have a lot of ambition, but the production pyramid doesn't allow individual talent to shine easily. 10,000 students go to film school, yet only a handful get to helm projects they want with full autonomy - and almost never at the blockbuster budget levels that would afford the creative vision they want. There's a lot of nepotism, too. AI is the personal computer moment for film. The DAW. One of my friends has done rotoscoping with live actors: [LINK] The Corridor folks show off a lot of creativity with this tech: [LINK] [LINK] [
Cites echelon · 2026-02 · Hacker News · on “Show HN: 3D and World Models for Consistent AI Filmmaking”
I've been a photons-on-glass filmmaker for over ten years, and I've been developing ArtCraft for myself, my friends, and my colleagues. All of my film school friends have a lot of ambition, but the production pyramid doesn't allow individual talent to shine easily. 10,000 students go to film school, yet only a handful get to helm projects they want with full autonomy - and almost never at the blockbuster budget levels that would afford the creative vision they want. There's a lot of nepotism, too. AI is the personal computer moment for film. The DAW. One of my friends has done rotoscoping with live actors: [LINK] The Corridor folks show off a lot of creativity with this tech: [LINK] [LINK] [