US EditionDarren Aronofsky AI Studio Primordial Soup Debuts Animated Revolutionary War Series
The AI-driven series combines generative visuals with SAG-AFTRA voices to mark the 250th anniversary of Revolutionary War events, releasing episodes weekly on Time's YouTube channel.
- On Thursday, Primordial Soup premiered On This Day& 1776, produced by Darren Aronofsky, with episodes dated January 1 and January 10 distributed on Time's YouTube channel.
- Aiming to blend storytelling and AI, Darren Aronofsky and Primordial Soup set out to reframe 1776 as a fragile experiment shaped by those who fought for it and explore lower-cost period production.
- The series employs SAG-AFTRA voice actors, a writers room led by Lucas Sussman, and Primordial Soup handles editing, mixing, and color grading with Salesforce backing the project.
- Critics and viewers noted uncanny AI artifacts and poor lip sync, with the first episode reaching 5,000 views and the second a little over 2,000, while social posts mocking the shorts spread widely and SAG-AFTRA actors were used amid industry pushback.
- Looking beyond the debut, the project tests whether AI can lower costs while preserving creativity, with Time Studios, Google DeepMind and Salesforce driving key industry debates on AI filmmaking.
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Darren Aronofsky AI Studio Primordial Soup Debuts Animated Revolutionary War Series
Primordial Soup, Darren Aronofsky’s AI studio, has unveiled an animated short-form series about the American Revolution that was produced in partnership with Google DeepMind. On This Day … 1776 will post new episodes on Time’s YouTube channel throughout 2026. (The first two episodes and a trailer can be found HERE.) In July, the U.S. will […]
Darren Aronofsky’s AI Studio Used Artificial Intelligence Tools for Revolutionary War Animated Series — but Hired Human Actors to Voice Founding Fathers
Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup used AI to create an animated American Revolution series for Time Studios, but employed real-life human actors for the voices.
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