AI | Film & Visual Effects
Flight of the Navigator
When we filmed Flight of the Navigator, we knew that some action shots couldn’t be achieved through traditional means, so we turned to an image-to-video workflow. Below are two examples of how we used AI to generate a close-up of a rapidly spinning propeller and a midair shot of the plane using reference images.
For the first shot, the reference frame needed to suggest motion in order to generate a successful video output. To achieve this, I used image-to-image generation to add visible motion blur to the propeller. This AI-generated frame then served as the input for the image-to-video process using Kling.
1. Reference frame.
2. AI-generated Radial Motion Blur from reference.
3. Image-to-Video.
For the second shot, I input a reference image of the plane into ChatGPT to generate a new image of the aircraft flying during golden hour. That output was then used to create the final video.
