This post was written by Hannah Elsakr and originally appeared on the Adobe blog on October 29, 2025.For our inaugural Generative AI Film Festival at Adobe MAX 2025, we invited six visionary filmmakers at the cutting edge of technology to each create a short film. The films, which premiered at MAX and here on our blog, cross both genres and aesthetics, ranging from the trailer for an animated series to an Afrofuturist sci-fi comedy.Below, we break down each film’s making-of and showcase exclusive behind-the-scenes videos that explain just how the filmmakers achieved their vision with the help of generative AI. We also take a look at the specific Adobe Firefly and Adobe Creative Cloud workflows that helped bring each story to the screen.“Beta Earth” - YouTube youtu.be Director / Studio: Nik Kleverov / Native ForeignTools: Adobe Firefly (including partner models like Google’s Veo 3.1 and Luma AI’s Ray3), Firefly Boards, Generate Sound Effects, PremiereNik Kleverov relied on Firefly Boards to set the tone of the “Beta Earth” series trailer. The character designs were initially hand-drawn by illustrators, then brought into their final form with the help of Firefly.“Once we generated still frames, we transferred them to an edit in Premiere and built out the animatic,” Kleverov explained. Those frames were then refined and put into motion through video generation using Firefly and a suite of partner models.“Music, sound design, and finishing followed a process we’ve been using for a while now,” Kleverov said. “We also tried out some of Firefly’s...
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