Joyrider director Ruairi Robinson hijacks the text of Rudyard Kipling’s 1903 anti-war poem “Boots” to generate the music and drive the narrative for this exercise in AI filmmaking he says “was produced during a two-week, 16 hour-a-day fever dream.”

Ruairi Robinson: “The video envisions a modern invasion of Los Angeles by cartoon anime monsters, and wave after wave of soldiers are sent to their deaths in endless cycles while a pink-haired girl dances on their corpses and sings in increasingly bubblegum-fascist outfits.
 

“The first week was generating shots using Veo 2 and editing, then a week of trying to make the lip sync work and doing fixes in post in After Effects and Da Vinci Resolve.”

 
“The girl was generated in the Veo 2 AI video creation platform and I used images of her to generate further footage of her talking using image to video with Kling AI and then used this generated footage to train a lip-sync model.

“The video was produced during a two-week, 16 hour-a-day fever dream. The first week was generating shots using Veo 2 and editing, then a week of trying to make the lip sync work and doing fixes in post in After Effects and Da Vinci Resolve. Veo 2 has trouble creating consistent characters so I had to swap her face in some shots.

“The song was generated using Suno. After a few hundred iterations this was a result I really liked. I’m not a musician, but I’d rather listen to music that’s entirely fake than generic auto-tune corporate content.”
 
 

 
Production: Joyrider, The Kaiju Meat Company
Director: Ruairi Robinson
AI/VFX: Ruairi Robinson
Music: Ruairi Robinson

Poem: Rudyard Kipling