Charcoal Knights
Chess knights leave hoof-shaped charcoal marks across a community hall floor.
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The story
Chess knights leave hoof-shaped charcoal marks across a community hall floor. A visible disruption forces immediate action, a second consequence changes the route through the world, and the final image leaves one specific unresolved choice. Local weather, labor, architecture and sound remain dramatic forces rather than decoration.
- Original title
- Charcoal Knights
- Country / region
- New Zealand
- Genres
- Fantasy · Action · Science fiction
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 131:00
- Director
- Hana Walker
Creative process
Humans retain final control over script, casting intent, performance direction, shot selection, continuity, edit, sound, color, safety review, and release approval.
Completed and publicly released on 2026-07-18 as of July 22, 2026. Human-authored brief and shot list; supervised current-model generation; manual edit; licensed sound and color finishing; legal, safety and technical quality control.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75%
- Creative method
- Synthetic animation
- Format
- Music video
- Resolution
- 8K
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66:1
- Frame rate
- 25
- Delivery format
- UHD ProRes 422 HQ music master + web master
- Subtitles
- English · French · German · Korean · Japanese · Thai