Initium | Nexia's first virtual human
An internal project pushing the boundaries of creative AI. Character design, generative film and immersive WebGL experience.
Internal Nexia project. The goal: create the first fully AI-generated 10-minute short film. Virtual human, cinematic narrative, complete production.
Proving that AI can produce cinema, not just clips. A film that holds over time, with a narrative arc, characters, and consistent art direction from start to finish.
100% Nexia Studio — no external collaboration. Everything is AI: characters, sets, narration, editing. The art director supervises, selects, composes. AI produces.
The character design emerged from hundreds of iterations. Every detail is intentional — the light on the face, subtle skin imperfections, the expression between serenity and strangeness. The virtual human must not be perfect; it must be disturbingly realistic.
The 10-minute film tells the story of an emerging artificial consciousness. A purely visual narrative, no dialogue, with a bespoke soundtrack. Every shot is AI-generated and validated by the art director.
10-minute film delivered. 100% AI production under art director supervision. Nexia's signature project — studio proof of concept.
Initium demonstrates concretely that creative AI, guided by strong artistic intent, produces results that hold over time — not just 15-second clips, but cinema.
How this kind of project is run.
Every project led by Nexia Studio follows the same production method, adapted to the deliverable at hand. We start with a rigorous brief phase, generally structured by ZIA, our AI creative project lead who formalises expectations, constraints, budget and timeline. This step determines the success of the entire project.
Then comes exploration : this is where generative AI shows its real value. Our art directors use Midjourney, Flux, Seedance, Kling and Runway to produce dozens of visual tracks in a few hours, where a traditional process would be limited to three or four explored directions. The exploration volume helps eliminate false good ideas quickly and concentrate creative energy on directions worth pursuing.
The human art direction phase then takes over. Selection, refinement, arbitration, typography, composition : this is where taste makes the difference. AI explores, the art director decides. Without this human step, the result would be indistinguishable from any other AI agency.
Finally, production : development, animation, compositing, post-production, asset preparation. This is the longest, most technical phase. Depending on the project nature, it can mobilise the Web, Motion or Graphic discipline, sometimes all three. The most frequently mobilised services include art direction, AI production, brand film, visual identity, WebGL 3D and virtual humans.
Nexia Studio is a distributed team based in Paris, Nice, Aix-en-Provence and Sophia Antipolis. This setup lets us assemble the right talent for each project without heavy structure. To start a similar project, contact the studio or kick off a brief with ZIA. Human response guaranteed within 24 working hours.