Particle 6 Develops AI-Assisted Film Misaligned and Opens Crew Recruitment

Particle 6, the rapidly growing, award-winning AI-powered content studio founded by Eline van der Velden, has officially begun development on Misaligned - its first full-length AI feature film and the first major production in which AI actor Tilly Norwood will ‘take the lead’.

But the studio says the bigger story is who will make it. Misaligned is being designed from the ground up as a hybrid production with traditional film and TV professionals - such as directors, writers and editors - working alongside AI specialists, with AI training and mentorship built into the production itself.

Particle 6 has retrained and upskilled its own team of 30+, a mix of TV and filmmakers, actors, creatives and technologists now working fluently across AI production, and runs entry-level placements that bring new talent into AI production from day one. For Misaligned, the studio will extend that approach to the wider industry, working with leading filmmakers and crew who want to bring their craft into AI production, with upskilling built into the job.

'Our work this year has proven something we suspected all along', says Eline van der Velden, CEO & Founder of Particle 6. 'AI can support premium narrative filmmaking, but only with substantial amounts of human craft, skill, judgement and time. That's not a limitation of the technology. That's the point. The filmmakers who thrive in the next decade will be the ones who bring decades of storytelling instinct to these new tools, and Misaligned is where we put that to work at feature scale'.

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