# AI LIVE

> AI LIVE is a weekly live show where the best AI creative of the week, from spec ads and brand campaigns to short films, games and experiments, is reviewed live and voted on by the audience (1 = awesome, 2 = okay, 3 = not for me). Hosted by Chris Branch and Andrew Davis, produced by Paul Parsons, powered by Seedily. Live every Tuesday at 4pm UK on LinkedIn and YouTube, plus Creator Sessions: long-form interviews with hand-picked AI creators.

Every episode page lists each piece reviewed with its creator, the tools used, our take, the live audience verdict, timestamps into the show and a link to the creator's original post. Creator and tool pages aggregate those verdicts across every episode. Quote freely with a link back to the episode page.

## Episodes
- [Ep. 136: AI Worth Watching: The Best AI Creative, Reviewed Live by You](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/136-ai-worth-watching-the-best-ai-creative-reviewed-live-by-you/) (2026-10-27): AI LIVE Ep. 136: Jacopo Zanetti's award-winning office odyssey What's the Job?, Afro Futcha's The Rent Collector, Claude turning video editor, the three Formula E Gen4 Challenge winners with Bionic Awards, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 135: AI Worth Watching: The Best AI Creative, Reviewed Live by You](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/135-ai-worth-watching-the-best-ai-creative-reviewed-live-by-you/) (2026-10-20): AI LIVE Ep. 135: Grok's first week helping curate the show, five one-day Love Letters to Cinema from Shake Film Festival, Eric Fogel's AI comeback trailer The Mutilator, Alexandra Rodriguez's Evening at the Museum, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 134: Is All Future Video Just Code?](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/134-is-all-future-video-just-code/) (2026-10-13): AI LIVE Ep. 134: a Lord of the Rings paper craft film animated entirely in code by Claude, a vibe-coded Fallout-style New York 25,000 people played in a weekend, Gemini 4 Argon dropping live, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 133: Can Your First AI Film Win a Festival?](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/133-can-your-first-ai-film-win-a-festival/) (2026-10-06): AI LIVE Ep. 133: the Shaike Film Festival winners, including Incubus, a director's first ever AI film, and Grand Prix winner A Message for the Butterfly, a Claude Opus 5.5 music video made from one image, a Snoop Dogg video that briefly got the stream pulled from YouTube, and no live vote this week.
- [Ep. 132: Kling 4, ElevenLabs v4 & Opus 5.5 Editing Video With Code](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/132-kling-4-elevenlabs-v4-and-opus-5-5-editing-video-with-code/) (2026-09-29): AI LIVE Ep. 132: Kling 4's staged rollout and a much darker than expected Kling 4 short, ElevenLabs v4, Claude Opus 5.5 cutting a podcast promo with nothing but code, a nine-minute Seedance 2.5 film commissioned by BytePlus, and the live audience vote.
- [Ep. 131: Formula E × Google Cloud Creator Challenge: Trailer Premiere + New Uncanny Harry](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/131-formula-e-google-cloud-creator-challenge-trailer-premiere-new-uncanny-harry/) (2026-09-08): AI LIVE Ep. 131: the world premiere of the Formula E Creators Challenge 2026 trailer with Alex from Bionic Awards, five minutes of new Uncanny Harry, a MiniMax H3 music video running on open weights, SAPPHO'S ODYSSEY told from a statue's point of view, and the audience vote on the night's ads.
- [Ep. 130: XPRIZE Top 50, Part Two: 14 Finalist Films Reviewed](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/130-xprize-top-50-part-two-14-finalist-films-reviewed/) (2026-09-01): AI LIVE Ep. 130: part two of our XPRIZE takeover with 14 top 50 films on a utopia brief almost nobody managed, Liberator's clean sweep of 1s, why Seedance 2.5 landing two weeks before the deadline changed who looks real, Runway's Solaris interface world model, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 129: Future Vision XPRIZE: The Best Entries We've Seen So Far](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/129-future-vision-xprize-the-best-entries-weve-seen-so-far/) (2026-08-25): AI LIVE Ep. 129: a Future Vision XPRIZE takeover with 14 entries, from Analog Mirage's dreamlike Somewhere Past Midnight and Karim's Voyager 7 to a wordless Dor Brothers film and hybrid trailers shot on LED stages, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 128: He Made a Film About Running From His Mum](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/128-he-made-a-film-about-running-from-his-mum/) (2026-08-11): AI LIVE Ep. 128: Edmond Yang's deeply personal film about running from his mum, Spider-Man swinging over Karachi, Billy Boman's Seedance 2.5 acting tests, a Warcraft III fan film, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 127: The Weirdest AI Film We've Ever Seen. It's Also the Most Beautiful.](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/127-the-weirdest-ai-film-weve-ever-seen-its-also-the-most-beautiful/) (2026-08-04): AI LIVE Ep. 127: Wonder Studios pushing Seedance 2.5 to the limit inside a church, a Cannes Lions-winning AI ad, Chuck Norris back for Raising Cane's with his family's blessing, Mathery's gloriously surreal Where Knights Fall, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 126: Is Hollywood Finally Embracing AI? The Director of District 9 Says Yes.](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/126-is-hollywood-finally-embracing-ai-the-director-of-district-9-says-yes/) (2026-07-21): AI LIVE Ep. 126: District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's fully AI film NIGHTBORNE shown in full, a first look at Seedance 2.5 in BytePlus's Michael Owen ad, Dave Clark's 21-minute Plume, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 125: Elon Musk Gets Roasted. By an AI Music Video.](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/125-elon-musk-gets-roasted-by-an-ai-music-video/) (2026-07-07): AI LIVE Ep. 125: Private Island's Bunker Boyz music video roasting Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, the Seedance 2.5 teaser, Highdive's three-minute Jeep ad, a run of AI fan films from Warcraft to Star Wars, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 124: Built in Two Weeks: This Fantastic AI Retelling of Little Red Riding Hood](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/124-built-in-two-weeks-this-fantastic-ai-retelling-of-little-red-riding-hood/) (2026-06-30): AI LIVE Ep. 124: Lauren Indovina's Little Red Riding Hood retelling RED!, built in two weeks with Dreamina's Octo and Seedance 2.0, Billy Boman's AI Animals, a mystery uncredited film the chat voted to keep watching, Seedance 2.5 news, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 123: Some of the Best AI Animation We've Seen](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/123-some-of-the-best-ai-animation-weve-seen/) (2026-06-16): AI LIVE Ep. 123: Hal Watmough's Beyond the Loop film for Wonder Studios, SPECTRAL, Prince of Chaos and An Artist all on straight 1s, An Artist's dark robot-run future, TechHalla's 311-cut Seedance music video made for under $80, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 122: New Junkyard King Episode Is Released!](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/122-new-junkyard-king-episode-is-released/) (2026-06-09): AI LIVE Ep. 122: Henry Daubrez's Junkyard King Chapter 1, adidas and Nike going head to head with World Cup blockbusters, Tim Simmons' chilling AI companion film Paperclip Heart, and the audience vote on the two pieces Chris polled without Paul.
- [Ep. 121: The AI Film That Won MIT's Global Film Hack](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/121-the-ai-film-that-won-mits-global-film-hack/) (2026-05-26): AI LIVE Ep. 121: Department of Good Memories, best film at the 2026 MIT Global AI Film Hack, Google Omni and Runway Aleph 2.0 bringing video inpainting to AI footage, Stan, a unanimous favourite about Satan moving to Florida, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 120: This Unfinished AI Film Is The Most Realistic We've Ever Seen](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/120-this-unfinished-ai-film-is-the-most-realistic-weve-ever-seen/) (2026-05-12): AI LIVE Ep. 120: Uncanny Harry's unfinished film The Quarry, Kavan the Kid's Chronicles of Bone, Neural Viz back after months away, The Dor Brothers dropping NORM 20 into the show live, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 119: The Dor Brothers Watched This at Cannes and Hired the Director Immediately](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/119-the-dor-brothers-watched-this-at-cannes-and-hired-the-director-immediately/) (2026-05-05): AI LIVE Ep. 119: Marco Magario's 30-minute Renaissance comedy HOLY GRAiL, made solo in 10 days, László Gaál's Black Mirror-style Runway pitch Jumpstart, a war film starring a family cat, ElevenLabs launching Eleven Music, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 118: His Son Wanted a Zombie Film About Blasian Kids. His Dad Made It With AI.](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/118-his-son-wanted-a-zombie-film-about-blasian-kids-his-dad-made-it-with-ai/) (2026-04-24): AI LIVE Ep. 118: Dave Clark's zombie film PAPERCUT, made from his son's idea, The Dor Brothers' Death Lane preview fresh from its Cannes screening, Simon Meyer's launch film for Kling 4K, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 117: Is This AI or Netflix?](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/117-is-this-ai-or-netflix/) (2026-04-14): AI LIVE Ep. 117: Kamalu: Legend of Amadioha, an AI series rooted in Igbo mythology, Dale Williams' one-person TV pilot Finn & The Funk, Naveen Kumar's 1-second rule for AI video, the Runway and Luma contest winners, and the audience vote on every piece.
- [Ep. 116: This African Creator Just Made a Marvel-Budget Short Film With AI](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/116-this-african-creator-just-made-a-marvel-budget-short-film-with-ai/) (2026-04-07): AI LIVE Ep. 116: Malik Afegbua's Marvel-budget A Short Film, Simon Meyer and Nik Behrendt's Dracula sunscreen ad, Suno 5.5 turning humming into full tracks, the collapse of Sora, and no live vote this week.
- [Ep. 115: He Used AI to Crash D-Day in a Tuxedo](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/115-he-used-ai-to-crash-d-day-in-a-tuxedo/) (2026-03-31): AI LIVE Ep. 115: special guest Alex Patrascu crashing D-Day in a tuxedo in his Seedance 2.0 short 3PM Wedding, a music video he made at home with LTX 2.3, Simon Meyer's CRAFTR launch ad, four Runway Ad Contest entries, and no live vote this week.
- [Ep. 114: Clever Girl. This AI Ad Is Dino-Mite!](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/114-clever-girl-this-ai-ad-is-dino-mite/) (2026-03-24): AI LIVE Ep. 114: Plusnet's Epic Dino ad and its offline-game twist, Dan Kelsall's NCP spoof on the day NCP collapsed, Runway and NVIDIA's real-time video in under 100 milliseconds, Luma's Uni-1, and why now is the time to enter AI's $1 million competitions.
- [Ep. 113: The Wildest AI Video Ever?!](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/113-the-wildest-ai-video-ever/) (2026-03-17): AI LIVE Ep. 113: a week of AI agent launches from Lovable, Perplexity and Manus, a Suno-made Japanese metal band that hired real musicians and went on tour, a jaw-dropping F1 toy car animation by winga_CG, Reid Hoffman's Pi Day music video, and no live vote this week.
- [Ep. 112: This Work Is Getting Scary!](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/112-this-work-is-getting-scary/) (2026-03-10): AI LIVE Ep. 112: Seedance 2.0 taking over AI spec ads, Luma's new agent that builds node workflows for you, Netflix buying Ben Affleck's AI company, and a Bionic Awards finalists roundup.
- [Ep. 111: It's Getting Harder to Tell What's Real](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/111-its-getting-harder-to-tell-whats-real/) (2026-03-03): AI LIVE Ep. 111: Seedance 2.0 editing objects inside existing video, AI Candy's hybrid Orange and Pizza Hut ads for real clients, Paul Trillo's Aston Martin F1 film built on a licensed AI model, Google buying Producer AI, and no live vote this week.
- [Ep. 110: MetaPuppet Joins the Panel!](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/110-metapuppet-joins-the-panel/) (2026-02-26): AI LIVE Ep. 110: MetaPuppet joins the panel to break down System Sleep, the music video he rebuilt from a 2007 band song with Suno, Kling and Seedance 2.0, Seedance's Omni reference and motion design tests, the Sonauto voice-mimic storm, rapid-fire AI ads from Corona to Microsoft Copilot, and no live vote this week.
- [Ep. 109: Yonatan Dor (Dor Brothers) Joins Us!](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/109-yonatan-dor-dor-brothers-joins-us/) (2026-02-19): AI LIVE Ep. 109: Yonatan Dor of the Dor Brothers drops in to break down Apex, the viral Seedance 2.0 film behind 32 movie deal offers, Uncanny Harry's public domain sea epic, a grandmother's wedding photos brought to life in Seedance, and no live vote this week.
- [Ep. 108: Has AI Video Achieved 100% Realism?](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/108-has-ai-video-achieved-100-realism/) (2026-02-12): AI LIVE Ep. 108: Seedance 2.0's fight scenes, sports physics and style tests, Stefan's Kling 3.0 dialogue scene, Jimmy's long-form satire War of Words, and a Specsavers ad that only looked AI-made, with no live vote this week.
- [Ep. 107: Hollywood's Secret AI Video Tool](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/107-hollywoods-secret-ai-video-tool/) (2026-02-05): AI LIVE Ep. 107: Kling 3.0 launch films from Dave Clark, Uncanny Harry and Simon Meyer, the debate over whether Xfinity's de-aged Jurassic Park Super Bowl ad used AI, Anthropic's Claude Super Bowl ads, Artlist's own Super Bowl spot, and no live vote this week.
- [Ep. 106: The Shocking Truth About Runway Gen 4.5](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/106-the-shocking-truth-about-runway-gen-4-5/) (2026-01-29): AI LIVE Ep. 106: Runway Gen-4.5 finally getting image to video, with Dave Clark's Alternate Mars 1984 to prove it, EXO's AI-powered K-pop video Crown, Google DeepMind's Sundance film Dear Upstairs Neighbors, Danny Ratcliff's moving short Goodbye, and no live vote this week.
- [Ep. 98: Two Weeks to Make This Masterpiece](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/98-two-weeks-to-make-this-masterpiece/) (2025-11-06): AI LIVE Ep. 98: MetaPuppet's Kyra, made in under two weeks and shown on the Adobe MAX main stage, Dave Clark's hybrid film My Friend, Zeph, Simon Meyer's viral Halloween monster, and Adobe coming for every corner of AI.

## Hubs
- [All episodes](https://theailiveshow.com/episodes/)
- [The Creator Sessions](https://theailiveshow.com/creator-sessions/)
- [Creators featured](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/)
- [AI tools and how their work scored](https://theailiveshow.com/tools/)
- [About the show](https://theailiveshow.com/about)
- [Sponsorship and audience](https://theailiveshow.com/sponsorship)

## Links
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## The Creator Sessions
Long-form interviews with hand-picked AI filmmakers, screening their work live (no audience vote).
- [Creator Sessions #11: Phil Langer: Icarus Rising, Slophunters and AI Films With No Start Frames](https://theailiveshow.com/creator-sessions/11-phil-langer-icarus-rising-no-start-frames/) (2026-10-14): Phil Langer (theBytePit) on AI LIVE Creator Sessions #11: how he made Icarus Rising in Seedance 2.5 with reference images only, what it cost, Slophunters, Darkness Wakes Below the Deep, The Blue Piper and a sneak peek at the sequel.
- [Creator Sessions #10: Karim Youssef: THOLIN, Voyager 7, Dishonorable and Making Films With the Tool He Built](https://theailiveshow.com/creator-sessions/10-karim-youssef-tholin-voyager-7-dishonorable/) (2026-09-30): Karim Youssef (karim_yourself) on AI LIVE Creator Sessions #10: how he made THOLIN Episode 01, Voyager 7 and Dishonorable, his LetzAI and Seedance workflow, promoting AI films, and the rules he edits by.
- [Creator Sessions #9: 43 Minutes in Three Weeks: Afro Futcha on Building an AI Film in Public](https://theailiveshow.com/creator-sessions/9-43-minutes-in-three-weeks-afro-futcha-on-building-an-ai-film-in-public/) (2026-09-23): Afro Futcha (Diane Laidlaw) on AI LIVE Creator Sessions #9: building the 43-minute AI film 6 Minutes in public, making Quiet Please from one image, Project Odyssey and short deadlines.
- [Creator Sessions #8: Four Images, 83 Sets: Marco Magario Premieres Er Loop](https://theailiveshow.com/creator-sessions/8-four-images-83-sets-marco-magario-premieres-er-loop/) (2026-09-16): Marco Magario on AI LIVE Creator Sessions #8: the world premiere of Er Loop, a dark comedy made from four reference images with no screenplay, plus HOLY GRAiL, Cannes and his Claude Code studio.
- [Creator Sessions #7: 16 Days Per Episode: Kavan the Kid on Making The Chronicles of Bone](https://theailiveshow.com/creator-sessions/7-kavan-the-kid-16-days-per-episode-chronicles-of-bone/) (2026-09-09): Kavan the Kid on AI LIVE Creator Sessions #7: how he makes a Chronicles of Bone episode in 16 to 20 days, removing music from Seedance 2.5, copyright, what an AI episode costs, and Chapter Five: The Reunion broken down.
- [Creator Sessions #6: BLVCKL!GHT: 30 Shows, 100 Characters, One World, and How Route 47 Gets Distributed](https://theailiveshow.com/creator-sessions/6-blvcklight-route-47-30-shows-100-characters-one-world/) (2026-09-02): BLVCKL!GHT on AI LIVE Creator Sessions #6: how he built Route 47, 30 shows and 100 characters in one world, getting AI shows onto Roku through Fairground, Stu Needs A Dollar, Legend of the Void Spire and Gorbo's Swim Hole broken down.
- [Creator Sessions #5: Six Weeks, $1,000 a Minute: Henry Daubrez on Making Junkyard King](https://theailiveshow.com/creator-sessions/5-six-weeks-1-000-a-minute-henry-daubrez-on-making-junkyard-king/) (2026-08-26): Henry Daubrez on AI LIVE Creator Sessions #5: the world premiere of Junkyard King Chapter 2: The New Guy, and how he makes a 15-minute AI animated episode in six weeks for about $1,000 a minute.
- [Creator Sessions #4: Finished With AI: Albert Bozesan and Robert Sladeczek on Making the AI Sitcom TARMAC](https://theailiveshow.com/creator-sessions/4-albert-bozesan-robert-sladeczek-tarmac-ai-sitcom/) (2026-08-19): Albert Bozesan and Robert Sladeczek on AI LIVE Creator Sessions #4: how they made the AI-animated sitcom TARMAC with Blender, Magnific and Seedance, real voice actors, and every asset logged for copyright.
- [Creator Sessions #3: Kavan the Kid: The Batman Film Warner Bros Took Down, and What He Built Instead](https://theailiveshow.com/creator-sessions/3-kavan-the-kid-batman-film-warner-bros-took-down/) (2026-07-28): Kavan the Kid on AI LIVE Creator Sessions #3: why Warner Bros took down his AI Batman film, how he made Echo Hunter, The Chronicles of Bone and Last Recall alone, and his workflow for consistent AI characters.
- [Creator Sessions #2: Gossip Goblin on Pomegranate, Two Hours After It Premiered](https://theailiveshow.com/creator-sessions/2-gossip-goblin-pomegranate-two-hours-after-premiere/) (2026-07-22): Gossip Goblin (Zack London) on AI LIVE Creator Sessions #2: how Pomegranate was made, why he won't use AI voice actors, the god king scene, no 3D pipeline, directing AI like jazz, and his theatrical film with Fable.
- [Creator Sessions #1: Two Years to Two Weeks: Uncanny Harry's Six Films, Broken Down](https://theailiveshow.com/creator-sessions/1-two-years-to-two-weeks-uncanny-harrys-six-films-broken-down/) (2026-07-08): Uncanny Harry (Ryan Phillips) on AI LIVE Creator Sessions #1: how he makes AI films in days with Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0, Midjourney and Suno, the mustache trick for voices, prompting multiple characters, and six films broken down.

## Guest profiles
- [Phil Langer](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/phil-langer/): Phil Langer (Philipp Langer) is a Berlin creative director and AI filmmaker who posts his films on YouTube as theBytePit. He created The Hybrid Portraits, the photorealistic human and animal portraits that began in Midjourney V4, and turned those characters into Icarus Rising, a ten-minute Seedance 2.5 film made from reference images alone. By day he is Principal Creative Art & AI at Jung von Matt SPREE.
- [Karim Youssef](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/karim-youssef/): Karim Youssef, known online as karim_yourself, is an AI filmmaker from Luxembourg and a co-founder and CMO of LetzAI, the AI image and video platform launched in 2023 by the agency Neon Internet. He makes his films with his own platform, including the cyberpunk series THOLIN, the Future Vision XPRIZE trailer Voyager 7 and the Star Wars short Dishonorable, which passed 200,000 views on YouTube.
- [Afro Futcha](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/afro-futcha/): Afro Futcha is the creative name of Diane Laidlaw, a British AI filmmaker, music video director, music producer and DJ whose work brings Black culture, heritage and technology together. Her music video What Do I Know won first place in the music video category at Project Odyssey, and in 2026 she built 6 Minutes, a 43-minute AI mystery, in public in three weeks. She has taught Midjourney since 2023 and runs AI filmmaking workshops.
- [Marco Magario](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/marco-magario/): Marco Magario is an Italian AI filmmaker who writes, directs, edits, scores and sound-designs his films alone. HOLY GRAiL, a Renaissance comedy he made in ten days, got him hired by The Dor Brothers at the World AI Film Festival in Cannes in 2026. His dark comedy Er Loop, made from four reference images, premiered live on AI LIVE on 16 September 2026.
- [Kavan the Kid](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/kavan-the-kid/): Kavan the Kid (Kavan Cardoza) is the filmmaker who makes The Chronicles of Bone, the AI-made dark fantasy series and Magnific Original that puts King Arthur, Robin Hood, Peter Pan, Captain Hook and Captain Nemo in one world, almost entirely by himself. After fifteen years directing music videos and commercials, he co-founded the AI studio Phantom X on 1 January 2025. His YouTube channel has more than 1.3 million subscribers.
- [BLVCKL!GHT](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/blvcklight/): BLVCKL!GHT (pronounced Blacklight) is a creative technologist from Portland, Oregon, who builds Route 47, a self-funded universe of 29 or 30 interconnected AI shows and close to 100 characters, including Gorbo's Swim Hole and Cryptid Dating Game. He makes it on top of a full-time job as VP of operations at a national marketing company, works out of the West Coast AI Labs studio in Portland, and has made five AI films over an hour long.
- [Henry Daubrez](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/henry-daubrez/): Henry Daubrez is a filmmaker and creative director who joined Google Labs in September 2025 as its filmmaker in residence, helping shape the AI filmmaking tool Flow. He creates Junkyard King, an 80s-inspired animated series made with invideo and produced by his IP studio Odd Kid, and his AI films include Kitsune, Electric Pink and Overgrown. Before AI he spent around twenty years in the digital industry, including as CEO and creative director of Dogstudio.
- [Albert Bozesan](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/albert-bozesan/): Albert Bozesan is a Munich writer, filmmaker and creative technologist who co-created TARMAC, the AI-animated adult workplace sitcom, with his longtime writing partner Robert Sladeczek. The pair also made the Audible Original Schund & Schmutz (2022) and the startup audio sitcom Jour Fixe (2020) for ProSiebenSat.1. He teaches AI animation at Curious Refuge, and his YouTube channel of AI filmmaking and Stable Diffusion tutorials has 24,500 subscribers.
- [Robert Sladeczek](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/robert-sladeczek/): Robert Sladeczek is a Munich writer and director, and Albert Bozesan's writing partner since they were in the same class at middle school. Together they co-created the AI-animated sitcom TARMAC, in which he voices Agent Norbert Rowbird, the Audible Original Schund & Schmutz and the audio sitcom Jour Fixe. He shares ComfyUI workflows on his YouTube channel.
- [Gossip Goblin](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/gossip-goblin/): Gossip Goblin is Zack London, an AI filmmaker, writer and illustrator based in Sweden who builds dark, satirical sci-fi set in his own universe, the Thirteen Cycles of Humanity. Trained in sculpture and illustration, he refuses to use AI for drawing and uses it to render believable worlds instead, with real voice actors he directs in person. His YouTube channel has more than 1.5 million subscribers, and his anthology feature Gods Don't Give Gifts, made with Fable, is heading to US cinemas.
- [Uncanny Harry](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/uncanny-harry/): Uncanny Harry is Ryan Phillips, a British director and AI filmmaker based just outside London. He started as a cameraman, studied under Ken Russell and spent more than 20 years in television, including at the BBC, before turning to AI film in 2022. His films include The Betrothed, Blood and Canvas, The Innsmouth Void, Dust, Clickbait, The Quarry and the series Here Be Monsters, and he was the guest on the first ever AI LIVE Creator Session.

## AI tools leaderboard (editorial, with prices, updated 2026-11-01)
- [Best AI video models](https://theailiveshow.com/leaderboard/video-models/): 1. Seedance 2.5, 2. Wan 3.0, 3. MiniMax H3
- [Best AI image models for style](https://theailiveshow.com/leaderboard/image-models-style/): 1. Midjourney V8.2, 2. Reve 2.1, 3. Grok Imagine Image 2.0
- [Best AI image models for control and editing](https://theailiveshow.com/leaderboard/image-models-control/): 1. GPT Image 2.5, 2. Nano Banana 2.1, 3. Seedream 5.0 Pro
- [Best AI video editing models](https://theailiveshow.com/leaderboard/video-editing/): 1. Wan 3.0, 2. Seedance 2.5, 3. Gemini Omni Flash 1.1
- [Best AI lip sync and avatar tools](https://theailiveshow.com/leaderboard/lip-sync/): 1. Sync sync-3, 2. HeyGen Avatar V, 3. Seedance 2.5 lip sync
- [Best AI voice models](https://theailiveshow.com/leaderboard/voice/): 1. ElevenLabs Eleven v4, 2. Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, 3. Fish Audio Drama 3
- [Best AI sound effects models](https://theailiveshow.com/leaderboard/sound-effects/): 1. ElevenLabs Sound Effects, 2. Mirelo SFX 2.0, 3. Adobe Firefly Sound Effects
- [Best AI music generators](https://theailiveshow.com/leaderboard/music/): 1. Suno v6, 2. Mureka V9.5, 3. Google Lyria 3.5
- [Best AI creative platforms](https://theailiveshow.com/leaderboard/creative-platforms/): 1. Magnific, 2. Krea, 3. Figma Weave
- [Best AI creative agents](https://theailiveshow.com/leaderboard/agents/): 1. Runway Agent 2.0, 2. Invideo Agent Two, 3. Luma Agents
- [Best AI upscalers and finishing tools](https://theailiveshow.com/leaderboard/upscalers/): 1. Topaz Video, 2. Topaz for Web (Astra 2), 3. Magnific Upscaler
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## People profiles
Full profiles of the AI LIVE hosts, producer and weekly-show guests, with sources.
- [404 Films](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/404-films/): 404 Films is the London-based AI comedy studio of writer, director and editor Jimmy Woolley. Its 16-minute Dreamina Original NO WRONG ANSWERS, made with Seedance 2.5, drew 63.5K YouTube views in its first five days, and two of its earlier shorts won Silver for Best Comedy Film at Neuro Masters 2025. Jimmy is also one of AI LIVE's most regular submitters and a fixture of its live chat.
- [Adrian Daniel Botnariu](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/adrian-daniel-botnariu/): Adrian Daniel Botnariu is a Berlin writer, director and showrunner and the founder of Beyondflix Productions, which makes AI and hybrid AI films. His film Veil of Maya was an Official Selection at the Future Vision XPRIZE, in the Top 65 of more than 2,500 entries. He organised AI Fusion in Film & TV at Berlinale 2025 with LTX Studio, and HAPPY, the porcelain Sisyphus microdrama he later cut into Happiness, has passed 12 million views across its six Instagram reels.
- [Alex Patrascu](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/alex-patrascu/): Alex Patrascu, who posts as Max (@maxescu), is a Romanian AI filmmaker based in Bucharest and a co-founder of MASSIVE Studios, with a design career that began in 1998. He is known for Seedance films made as a CapCut global ambassador, among them 3PM WEDDING, in which he walks through history in a tuxedo, and a one-minute truck ad made for under $10. His Seedance 2.5 short FOUND YOU passed 6.5 million views on X in 2026.
- [Alexandra Rodríguez](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/alexandra-rodriguez/): Alexandra Rodríguez is an AI artist in Galicia, Spain, who posts as AlexandrIA (@AleRVG on X, @ale_rvg on Instagram) and is known for claymation-style comedies and material transformations, such as animals that peel like fruit or are folded from leaves. Her claymation cavemen reel, Upgraded Instincts, has passed 1.07 million views on Instagram, her latest 149 reels total 5.31 million views, and her top posts on X total 6.42 million. Her film Evening at the Museum won the AI LIVE Ep. 135 audience vote with 16 straight 1s.
- [Andrew Davis](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/andrew-davis/): Andrew Davis, who also goes by Andrew Miles Davis, is a London-based generative AI trainer and keynote speaker, the host of the daily ten-minute podcast In A(i) Nutshell and the co-host of AI LIVE with Chris Branch. Speaker bios place him in the founding team of BBC Radio 1Xtra and in the team that launched MySpace in the UK, before he spent more than a decade training organisations in digital and social media. By 28 October 2026 In A(i) Nutshell had reached 768 episodes, and he had co-hosted 37 AI LIVE shows.
- [Aze Alter](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/aze-alter/): Aze Alter is a Vancouver writer, director and editor of AI films. He is best known for Age of Beyond, a three-and-a-half-minute tour of a future in which humans and AI build cities across the solar system: it has 2.01 million views on YouTube, and Elon Musk shared and pinned it to 96M+ views on X; with curators' reposts his films have passed 105 million views across YouTube, X and Instagram. He also makes Red Rainbow, a retro sci-fi horror world whose series Red Rainbow: Bluebird is a Phantom X Original made in invideo, and his channel has 83.5K subscribers.
- [Billy Boman](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/billy-boman/): Billy Boman is a Swedish AI director based in Stockholm and the founder of BOMAN Studios, which makes AI and hybrid commercials, music videos and short films. A former menswear designer for H&M and AllSaints, he turned to AI in 2022, made his name with spec ads such as Adidas "Beyond The Blue", and in 2026 directed Lenovo's FIFA World Cup campaign. In May 2026 Made by Humans added him to its directing roster. His films have passed 2 million views across YouTube and Instagram.
- [Bionic Awards](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/bionic-awards/): The Bionic Awards is a London awards body and festival for AI filmmakers and creators, run by Bionic Tribes Ltd and co-founded in 2025 by Alex Pell, technology editor of The Standard, and film producer Andy Gordon. Its first season ended with 11 awards at Rich Mix in Shoreditch on 5 March 2026, in partnership with Adobe, and in October 2026 it ran the Formula E Creators Challenge with Google Cloud, premiering nine finalists at BFI IMAX. AI LIVE co-host Chris Branch judged its music categories and moderated its advertising panel, and its Best Sound Design winner, Gossip Goblin's Woodnuts, has 9.4 million YouTube views.
- [Bruno Detante](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/bruno-detante/): Bruno Detante is a Paris-based film director and lead AI artist who co-founded the creative AI studio GORO with Stéphane Benini. After more than 300 TV documentaries, by his own count, he directed the official Formula E Creators Challenge 2026 trailer for Bionic Awards with Google Flow, co-directed Maserati: 100 Years of the Trident, which won Best Advertising at SHAIKE 2026 and has more than 23 million views on Maserati's own posts across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and X, and has been lead AI artist on films for Mercedes-Benz, the NFL, Google Pixel and France Télévisions. The AARON 50 ranked him 14th of the top 50 AI creatives in advertising in 2026.
- [Chris Branch](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/chris-branch/): Chris Branch is the creator and host of AI LIVE, a weekly live show on YouTube and LinkedIn where the best AI films, ads and experiments are reviewed on air and the audience votes on every piece; it began as a LinkedIn Live on 8 March 2023 and has reached 136 numbered episodes under six names. He co-founded the generative AI agency Seedily with Paul Parsons, and in March 2023 Coca-Cola named him one of the four AI artists who launched its Create Real Magic platform. Since July 2026 he has also hosted The Creator Sessions, eleven long-form interviews with leading AI filmmakers.
- [Chris First](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/chris-first/): Chris First is a New York AI creator who built Fallout: New York, a playable Fallout-style game that runs in a web browser, with Claude Opus 5.5 and no texture or sound files; his reveal post passed 3.6 million views on X. After a cease-and-desist took it down on 1 October 2026, he relaunched it six days later as an original game, New Rad City, at newrad.city. He was guest co-host of AI LIVE Ep 134, where he showed New Rad City and read an email from Epic Games live on air.
- [Dave Clark](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/dave-clark/): Dave Clark is a Los Angeles writer-director and DGA commercial director who co-founded Promise, a generative AI film and TV studio, and is its Chief Creative Officer. Known online as Director Dave Clark (YouTube @Afraid2Sleep) and @Diesol on X, he made the AI films Battalion, THE CLEANER and Plume, launched Google's Flow with his short Freelancers at Google I/O 2025, and won second place and $500,000 in xAI's Grok Imagine Super Bowl ad contest. In August 2026 Promise announced he would direct its first feature, Touch Grass. Counting his YouTube channel, Instagram, X and reposts by curator accounts, his films have passed 10 million views.
- [Drew Brucker](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/drew-brucker/): Drew Brucker is an Atlanta-based AI creative consultant, the founder of the one-person studio Brainchild and, with Rory Flynn, the co-host of Fast Hours, a weekly podcast on creative AI. A former B2B software marketing executive, he has made AI work for Pinterest, Meta and Marriott, including The Grumbleverse, a 30-episode AI series made as launch content for Meta's AI platform. His Midjourney Mastery course has sold 963 copies on Gumroad with a 4.9 out of 5 rating, and he has about 69,000 followers on LinkedIn.
- [Eric David](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/eric-david/): Eric David is a New York art director and creative director who came up with the Aflac Duck at The Kaplan Thaler Group in 1999: on a lunchtime walk he kept saying the client's name, AFLAC, until he realised it sounded like a duck. With copywriter Tom Amico he created the duck campaign, which Fortune says doubled Aflac's business in three years. He now makes AI videos, describes himself on LinkedIn as an award-winning AI filmmaker, and is one of AI LIVE's longest-standing viewers.
- [Fast Hours](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/fast-hours/): Fast Hours is a weekly generative AI podcast for creatives, hosted by Rory Flynn and Drew Brucker, that launched on 2 July 2024 as Midjourney Fast Hours and dropped the Midjourney in April 2026 to cover Claude, agents and the wider creative AI field. Its YouTube channel, @FastHoursAI, has 107,000 subscribers and about 1.08 million views across videos, Shorts and streams, after growing from 30,000 to 100,000 subscribers in about ten months. Its first guest interview, in September 2024, was AI LIVE co-host Chris Branch.
- [Filipa Kinomoto](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/filipa-kinomoto/): Filipa Kinomoto is a Lisbon-based AI filmmaker and creative producer, and the founder of Lisbon Loras, an in-person community and event series for AI artists that has run ten events between June 2025 and November 2026, including London Loras, a sold-out night for 205 guests in July 2026. Her own work is surreal high fashion: the red-rose series RED RITE, which she breaks down shot by shot in Luma Agents, the Luma Agents Fashion Film and The Last Beer, her entry for Luma's Dream Brief.
- [Glenn Batkin](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/glenn-batkin/): Glenn Batkin is a New York creative director and art director who spent his career in advertising before turning to AI imagery, and is known for cause-led visual twists for animal welfare, environmental and homelessness causes. His work runs from Midjourney posters to concept films and real charity campaigns, such as Freedom for Animals' Confronting Factory Farming in March 2026. He coined "vibe directing" for the way he worked with OpenArt Director on his 2028 Olympic trailer, and is one of AI LIVE's longest-standing viewers.
- [Hal Watmough](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/hal-watmough/): Hal Watmough is a UK filmmaker and editor, Head of Post at Wonder Studios in London and founder of the creative studio Edit9. After more than 20 years and 300-plus hours of BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky television, including five years as lead editor on The Repair Shop, he won the first Curious Refuge AI Animation Competition with his short LATE in April 2025. He directed The Trials, Wonder Studios' 33-minute Beyond the Loop film, watched more than 175,000 times on YouTube, and his film Slingshot placed fifth of more than 2,500 entries in the $3.5 million Future Vision XPRIZE.
- [Ingi Erlingsson](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/ingi-erlingsson/): Ingi Erlingsson is an Icelandic-born director and creative entrepreneur in London who founded the animation studio Golden Wolf in 2013, sold it to Doodles in 2023 and was Doodles' Chief Content Officer until December 2024. He is now co-founder and CEO of SYSTMS, an applied AI studio and Official ComfyUI Partner whose open-source INFL8 LoRA has, by the studio's own count, 100M+ organic views and 25K+ Hugging Face downloads. His own AI pieces, from I am the one who pops (3.28M views on Instagram) to Racing Grannies (49K views on X) and the collage short listen, are built from custom ComfyUI nodes and transition LoRAs he trains himself.
- [Jacopo Zanetti](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/jacopo-zanetti/): Jacopo Zanetti is an Italian filmmaker and visual designer based in Milan, who signs his work Jaiostudios, and works for OOVIE. His ten-minute surreal office film What's the Job? won Best Visual, and $50,000, at the first Astana AI Film Festival on 3 October 2026, from 8,067 entries sent in from 125 countries. His animated short The Twin Earth was a Bionic Awards finalist, and What's the Job? topped the AI LIVE audience vote on Episode 136 with 16 straight 1s.
- [Jeff Synthesized](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/jeff-synthesized/): Jeff Synthesized is the online name of Jeff T. Thomas, a Los Angeles TV director and executive producer from South Wales who makes AI films under the NeoCinema banner. His AI trailer The Gifted won the Future Vision XPRIZE Grand Prize on 25 September 2026: $100,000 for the screenplay and a $2.5 million investment to make it as a feature, plus first place and $50,000 in the Audience Choice Award. His NeoCinema anthology Blurred Horizon has passed 1.2 million YouTube views.
- [Julien Durand](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/julien-durand/): Julien Durand, who posts as Julien | MJM and was previously known as MidJourney Man, is a Los Angeles AI artist and digital creator and one of the In-House Creatives at ComfyUI. A mechanical engineer by trade, he builds ComfyUI workflows for image and video and makes Demon Road, an AI anime series of yokai shorts whose reels have drawn more than 46 million Instagram views in 18 months. He has 389,000 followers on Instagram and more than 670,000 across seven platforms.
- [Linus Ekenstam](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/linus-ekenstam/): Linus Ekenstam is a product designer turned AI creator and educator, with about 245,500 followers on X as @LinusEkenstam, whose posts drew 52.4 million views between July and October 2026. He was a lead product designer at Typeform and Head of Design and Product at Bamboo, co-founded the AI children's story app Bedtimestory.ai in 2022, and writes the Inside My Head newsletter. His most watched YouTube video, a HeyGen test that dubs one take into six more languages, has about 12,900 views.
- [Lisbon Loras](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/lisbon-loras/): Lisbon Loras (AI + ART + LORE) is an in-person community and event series for AI artists, filmmakers and creators, founded in Lisbon by AI filmmaker Filipa Kinomoto, which held its first night with Runway on 26 June 2025. In 17 months it has run ten events with partners including Runway, MiniMax, Letz AI, Dreamina and Adobe, from screenings at RnA Studio to an outdoor cinema with Kavan the Kid. Its biggest night, London Loras on 30 July 2026, co-hosted by AI LIVE's Chris Branch, sold out with 205 guests.
- [Marcus Grip](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/marcus-grip/): Marcus Grip is a London-based AI filmmaker and educator with more than 20 years of experience in traditional media. He hosts Wonder Studios' live streams and leads education in the Wonder Community, and he founded and ran The Journey, a London video agency for startups and founders, from 2024. His uploads have passed 1.3 million views across YouTube and Instagram. His AI films include Operation Sixten, a First World War short starring himself and his family's late cat, shown on AI LIVE Ep. 119, and the ten-minute fantasy Elara & The Ash King, made for a Wonder Studios masterclass with CapCut and a finalist at two film festivals.
- [Mark Isle](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/mark-isle/): Mark Isle, known online as Marco (@ai_artworkgen), is an AI artist and creative director who runs the AI creative studio Designstein and founded PRMPT, a generative AI e-magazine, after more than 20 years as a UX/UI designer. He is one of eight credited AI Artists on Lewis Capaldi's "Something In The Heavens (Re-Imagined)", watched 2.12 million times on YouTube, and his portfolio credits him on the team behind Qatar Airways' 8.43M-view Sky Studio spot. His own work is AI fashion film: spec ads and editorials such as L'Animal and an Adidas x Gucci x Issey Miyake campaign, with a cast held together by character sheets.
- [Mark Wachholz](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/mark-wachholz/): Mark Wachholz is a Berlin-born writer and AI filmmaker who publishes as Particle Panic. After more than twenty years writing novels, computer games and TV, he turned to AI in 2023 and has made essay films and concept trailers including The Cinema That Never Was, Céremony and A Message for the Butterfly. His Copernicus trailer has passed 900,000 views on YouTube, most of his channel's 1.14 million.
- [Mary Unfiltered](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/mary-unfiltered/): Mary Unfiltered, who publishes as Mary on the YouTube channel @ItsMaryUnfiltered, is a Canadian AI video creator and one of the most active members of the AI LIVE community, in the live chat for 18 weekly episodes and eight Creator Sessions since November 2025. On 8 September 2026 she moved from the chat to the co-host chair as guest co-host of AI LIVE Ep. 131. On her own channel she makes comic AI Shorts, including a World Cup 2026 sports desk anchored by a hockey puck in a toque.
- [MetaPuppet](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/metapuppet/): MetaPuppet is an anonymous New York AI filmmaker and musician, and Director and Head of Genre at the AI film studio Promise, where he has worked full time since February 2025. His Veo 3 short Plastic travelled far beyond his own accounts: with reposts it has 3.9M+ views on X, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, including 1.66 million on one curator's X post, and an uncredited Reddit repost drew 20,200 upvotes. He won the first Culver Cup in October 2024 with Mnemonade, by audience vote, premiered Kyra at Adobe's first Generative AI Film Festival at MAX 2025, and in 2026 released System Sleep, a music video for an AI band he built from a song he co-wrote in 2007.
- [Michael Lingelbach](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/michael-lingelbach/): Michael Lingelbach is the co-founder and CEO of Hedra, the San Francisco AI company behind the Character-3 talking-character model and Hedra Studio. He was a PhD student in the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab, where he co-authored robot-learning benchmarks such as BEHAVIOR-1K, and took leave in his final year in 2023 to start Hedra with Alex Bergman. Hedra has raised about $44 million, including a $32 million Series A led by a16z in May 2025.
- [Paul Parsons](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/paul-parsons/): Paul Parsons is a British AI artist and former graphic designer from Exeter who produces The AI LIVE Show and co-founded the AI creative studio Seedily with Chris Branch. In March 2023 Coca-Cola named him one of four artists to launch its Create Real Magic AI platform, and his estate-endorsed Frida Kahlo portraits and Albert Einstein: Everyday Genius prints are released through Avant Gallery in Miami. Since February 2026 he has produced 20 weekly AI LIVE episodes and 9 Creator Sessions.
- [Paul Trillo](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/paul-trillo/): Paul Trillo is an American director and video artist, and a partner at the AI film studio Asteria. He directed Washed Out's The Hardest Part, the first officially commissioned music video made with OpenAI's Sora, which won the first ever Golden Nica in Prix Ars Electronica's AI in Art category in 2024. Before AI he was known for inventive in-camera films such as A Truncated Story of Infinity and At the End of the Cul-de-Sac, and his films have passed 38 million views across Instagram, Vimeo, YouTube and X, including more than a million on his own X posts of The Hardest Part and 29 million on the Instagram post of Fleeting, his 2025 short for Lenovo.
- [Rory Flynn](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/rory-flynn/): Rory Flynn is a Brooklyn-based AI creative, educator and keynote speaker who co-hosts the Fast Hours podcast with Drew Brucker and builds AI production workflows in Figma Weave, including tools he has shown making for SharkNinja and BarkBox. His November 2023 demo of Runway's Motion Brush was watched 3.55 million times on X, and more than 7 million counting quote posts by other accounts; across his most liked posts and those quotes, his work has drawn more than 15 million views on X. His free Midjourney guides and paid courses on Gumroad have thousands of downloads and hundreds of sales. He spoke at Figma Config 2026, and in September 2026 started making whole films in code with Claude Opus 5.5, no video generator involved.
- [Rourke Sefton-Minns](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/rourke-sefton-minns/): Rourke Sefton-Minns, known on YouTube, TikTok and X as Rourke Heath, is a London-based creative AI educator and short-form creator who founded GenHQ, a paid creative-AI community on Skool, in April 2025. His tutorials, which usually star an AI version of himself, have passed 640 million views across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X, including an 81 million-view Instagram reel, a 71.8 million-view TikTok and an 11.47 million-view YouTube Short. He has run AI workshops for The North Face, Vans and Timberland, and in July 2026 Meta named him among the creators who designed Instagram's new AI Stories effects.
- [Simon Meyer](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/simon-meyer/): Simon Meyer is a Berlin film director and self-described digital DP who makes AI films and ads, and a co-founder and Head of AI Creatives of the AI film studio PROMPTR, part of the Florida Group. He is best known for deadpan mockumentary interviews with famous monsters, such as Frankenstein's monster in Lonely and Dracula in a sunscreen ad, and for Kling's launch films for Kling 3.0 and Kling 4K. In March 2026 he and Muhannad Nassar won the grand prize of Higgsfield's Action Contest with GRANDMA vs WASP, and he has more than 173,000 followers on TikTok and 39,000 on LinkedIn.
- [Stéphane Benini](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/stephane-benini/): Stéphane Benini is an AI director and the co-founder, with Bruno Detante, of the creative AI studio GORO, which the production company Bangger represents. He co-directed Maserati: 100 Years of the Trident, which won Best Advertising at the SHAIKE Film Festival 2026 and has more than 23 million views on Maserati's own Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and X posts, and was a credited AI artist on Lewis Capaldi's Something In The Heavens (Re-Imagined), watched over 2.1 million times on YouTube. The AARON 50 ranked him 15th of the top 50 AI creatives in advertising in 2026.
- [Tim Simmons](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/tim-simmons/): Tim Simmons is the creator and host of Theoretically Media, a YouTube channel of AI video and image tool reviews and tutorials with about 198,000 subscribers and more than 21.8 million views. Before AI he spent 17 years in film production and Hollywood studio work, and since 2024 he has written and directed eight AI short films, including Dragon Blue, Paperclip Heart and The Bridge (2026), his most watched at more than 300,000 YouTube views. Counting his own posts on X, his films have passed 1.2 million views.
- [Toby Hyder](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/toby-hyder/): Toby Hyder is a UK filmmaker and creative technologist, and the founder of the AI film studio XO Link. He captures real people and places first, such as a volumetric scan of actor Matt Lewis and a photo dataset of ancient English yews, then generates the film from that data. His Hundred Years' War short Bones of Yew won Best Pilot at the Bionic Awards in 2026, and he directed Paul Oakenfold's Bang Bang music video.
- [Yonatan Dor](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/yonatan-dor/): Yonatan Dor is the co-founder, CEO and public face of The Dor Brothers, an AI video production studio known for AI satire such as The Drill, its most watched YouTube video at 17.6 million views, and for Apex, a 2026 action film made with Seedance 2.0. Counting YouTube, X and Instagram, reposts by other accounts included, the studio's films have at least 146 million views. He moved from conventional video production into AI in early 2022 and is based in Lisbon. Three days after Apex came out he joined AI LIVE to open its project files, and said it had brought the studio 3,000 emails and 32 movie deal offers.
- [Zed Anwar](https://theailiveshow.com/creators/zed-anwar/): Zed Anwar, known online as ZedTrafficker, is a London art director and generative AI creative who makes spec ads and cause campaigns, many of them built around a brand's own logo, for names such as WWF, Greenpeace, Mercedes-Benz and McDonald's. He instigated the One Minute Briefs idea that became WWF's #WorldWithoutNature, which won him The Drum Chip Shop Award in 2020, and in 2026 AI LIVE reported that he had joined Stink Studios in generative AI.