Netflix by Bots
creative director | director | producer | narrator
Part of my ongoing work with Netflix, I pitched this concept to use AI to animate my old friend Keaton Patti’s bot scripts (he has a book of them, you should buy it, it’s great). Working with a team across the world, I devised a system to animate faithfully to Keaton’s script, word for word, and to use real audio captured by talent to create text-to-speech algorithms for the performances. It’s a freakish blend of technology and comedy, and the result is wonderfully unsettling.
By forcing bots to watch every holiday film ever made, Netflix has created our own mathematically perfect Holiday film made entirely by bots. Please enjoy "C...