Death Match is an R-rated, 1980s-style animated feature written and directed by Prince Zoho: a dystopian city, a factory worker named John, a crime boss in a penthouse and a tournament where people die on camera. It is being made with an AI agent, Claude, working as the crew.
This diary answers one question: can an AI take a screenplay to shots, prompts, images, video and an edit, and how much human commitment and intervention does that take? Claude does the labor of a studio. The human is the arbiter of taste, approving or rejecting every frame and every clip.
One entry is published each day, with the numbers and the failures.
The diary
- Day 01: How to make an animated film with AI, starting from my own screenplay (Oct 4, 2026)
- Day 02: Midjourney blocked my account for automation while my AI worked overnight (Oct 5, 2026, coming)
- Day 03: Keeping props and hands consistent in AI video, one scene at a time (Oct 6, 2026, coming)
- Day 04: When AI video tools refuse violent scenes, try open models on your own machine (Oct 7, 2026, coming)
- Day 05: Editing an AI-generated film in Premiere, and fixing AI lip sync timing (Oct 8, 2026, coming)
- Day 06: AI video budget per minute, after Runway suspended my account (Oct 9, 2026, coming)
- Day 07: Character consistency in AI animation: a locked design for all 46 characters (Oct 10, 2026, coming)
- Day 08: Can an AI edit a film? Mine cut it to confetti, so we recut it in Premiere (Oct 11, 2026, coming)