the film was made by william bartlett, who's a creative director from visual effects house framestorew, it's important to remember always when you're dealing with this kind of stuff, that the ai doesn't understand what it's drawing. and actually that's what gives it its unique, quirky animation style. and actually that's what gives it its unique, quirky animation style. you can see in that robot there, the controls on the front, all the buttons are rippling and glitching. yeah. it can't keep them consistent over the number of frames you've animated it. so thatjust seems to be part of the thing where it doesn't necessarily understand what needs to stay the same in the animation. funnily enough, actually, there's a moment where the girl robot spins her head around, and that was something that itjust did serendipitously. i didn't ask for that, and itjust did it. i mean, it's one of the interesting things about this, the sort of serendipitous nature of it giving you something unexpected, which is also part of the creative process. and actually, you don't ask actors to perform precisely as

the film was made by william bartlett, who's a creative director from visual effects house framestoreand who, like a lot of generative ai creators at the moment, put it together in his spare time. it started off life as a test. and i wanted to do a test that was more elaborate than just a couple of shots. i wanted to try and string together something which had a bit of narrative to try and drive the kind of ambition of the shots. will actually had to use different generative ai tools for different parts of the process. first, he asked midjourney to come up with some still images of the kind of characters that he wanted. and so i might describe a sort of vintage tin robot playing a trumpet, for example, and then you get a kind of set of images to choose from that you might or might not like. and the great thing is that it takes about a minute to arrive. then he needed to get things moving, so will fed his chosen still images into another ai tool called pika and described the type of things that he wanted the characters to do. now, this sounds completely magical, doesn't it? it sounds l

the film was made by william bartlett, who's a creative director from visual effects house framestore

about it then with the director of export unlocked, richard bartlett and the portfolio holder for transport at cornwall council. who's richard williamse both got richard's very confusing. yes. so let's start with richard. no richard williams pairs turn them off. you think it's a good idea? in what way would it help in everybody . everybody. >> well , i everybody. >> well, i think it's 1 think it's fantastic it rich . charlie, it's fantastic it rich. charlie, would you leave 35,000 lights on all night ? yes. street lights all night? yes. street lights are very useful. but from 12 midnight till 5:00 in the morning, very , very few people, morning, very, very few people, especially in our rural area, actually require them . i mean, actually require them. i mean, if you're actually going for a walk or something at that time of night and a lot of rural areas like most of cornwall, um, the street lights only really light up a small amount of the middle of your, your village or your town in any case. so it's pretty unlikely you'll be walking everywhere, street lit. um, so realistically , this is, um, so realistically, this is, this is a hug