DAGON (2025) . A 10-minute Lovecraft adaptation using an AI-assisted visual workflow
Hi everyone,
I wanted to share DAGON, a 10-minute short film adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s story of the same name.
The film was recently released on YouTube after a festival run, where it was screened in several festivals and received awards. At the same time, I’ve found a lot of resistance in more traditional film and fandom spaces when it comes to accepting AI-assisted visual production as a legitimate creative medium, so I thought this community might be a better place to share the work and discuss the process.
From a technical standpoint, most of the images were generated around April 2025 using OpenAI’s image generation tools available at the time, and the video work was created with Kling’s video generation model available during that period, around the transition from Kling 1.6 / 1.6 Pro to Kling 2.0.
The film also involved script adaptation, direction, editing, sound design, and professional human voice performances. Main voice by Rick Browning. Additional voices by Dennis Wolf. Additional sound effects were created and edited using Soundly Pro, and the final edit was assembled in iMovie.
I tried to keep the adaptation as faithful as possible to Lovecraft’s original story, while taking some creative liberties to translate its atmosphere into cinematic language.
The film is available with subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Japanese.
I’d be grateful for any thoughts from people working with, or interested in, AI-assisted narrative filmmaking.