05/28/2025
TBP Director Samuel Bennetts ventures into AI with his latest Short Film “The Boy & Sea”.
Samuel says: "The idea comes from a feature I’ve been writing — a horror story rooted in my relationship with my mother growing up. It’s emotional, but told through monsters and Lovecraftian spectacle.
I had a very specific tone in mind: eerie and otherworldly, set on a windswept coastline, where a mother searches for her son… but he’s already too far gone, already calling up the monster that will undo them both.I built the storyboard using AI, then developed each image into animation using a mix of tools and techniques.
It wasn’t a one-size-fits-all process — each scene demanded its own approach. It’s not perfect, but part of this was testing the limits. Seeing how far I could push before AI pushed back.It’s an experiment, but one that brought me closer to the kind of stories I want to tell — personal, unsettling, and a little unreal."
