AN EXPERIMENT BY CHRIS WATKINS

Your vision.
Without
limits.

EIZO is an experiment by Chris Watkins.
It gets better every day, and it has already
made real films, start to finish.

NOW SHOWINGThe Foundry01 / 10 · MADE IN EIZO
Chris Watkins at his desk in his workshop, smiling at the camera
THE EXPERIMENT

EIZO is an experiment
by Chris Watkins.

It gets better every day.
It has already done a lot.

  • Finished films, end to end. Music videos, and Continuance, a ten-minute science-fiction short.
  • Characters and locations that hold, from one shot to the next.
  • A camera move planned for every shot.
  • Voices, score and the final mix, generated and mixed in.
  • Its own GPU farm, on signed nodes that heal themselves.

Built in a workshop, run on its own GPUs, and pushed a little further every day.

  • Characters that stay themselves, shot to shot.
  • Every location held, from every angle.
  • Voices, sound and music, made together.
  • Music videos, shorts and films.
  • Your GPUs, your models.
  • Every take kept, with its provenance.
ONE PIPELINE, THREE WAYS IN

From an idea
to a finished cut.

Music videos, shorts and films share one pipeline. Only where it starts changes. The shot below is real: shot 20 of Assertion, a Series 4 music video.

Starts from the song and cuts to the beat.
  1. 01 / IDEA

    Start from the song.

    In a music video the track leads. Energy and sections split it into a cut plan, and every shot lands on the beat.

  2. 02 / CAST & LOCATIONS

    Fix who and where.

    Character and location references hold the look. Each shot is rendered against the frame before it in the same place, so rooms stay rooms.

  3. 03 / SCENES & SHOTS

    One line of direction per shot.

    No essay prompts. One sentence of what happens, a length, and the references it must match.

  4. 04 / FRAMES

    A still is rendered and chosen.

    The farm renders on whichever node is free. A person picks the frame worth moving.

  5. 05 / MOVING TAKES

    Then the still starts to move.

    The chosen still is the first frame of the video take. The same shot, now alive.

  6. 06 / EDIT, SOUND & FINISH

    Cut, mix, title, export.

    Takes drop onto the timeline against the song. Titles and captions go on, the mix is set, and the film exports ready to publish.

STILL → MOTION

Drag the line.
Watch it wake up.

The still frame of a wheel rim throwing sparks in a garage lit red and green STILLTAKE
EXPLOREEVERY FRAME HERE WAS MADE IN EIZO
The Foundry
Red Green
Happy Path
Edge Case
Coverage
Mock
Quarantine
Assertion
Regression
Assertion
Training Run
Neon Commit
Ghost in the Diff
Deprecated
The Foundry
Vibe Coder
Red Green
Happy Path
Vibe Coder
Edge Case
Coverage
Mock
Assertion
Regression
Training Run
Neon Commit
Ghost in the Diff
Neon Commit
Deprecated
The Foundry
Vibe Coder
Red Green
Happy Path
Edge Case
Mock
Assertion
Training Run
Regression
Training Run
Neon Commit
Ghost in the Diff
Deprecated
The Foundry
Vibe Coder
Red Green
Red Green
Happy Path
Edge Case
Mock
Assertion
Regression
Training Run
Neon Commit
Ghost in the Diff
Ghost in the Diff
Deprecated
Deprecated
The Foundry
Vibe Coder
Happy Path
Edge Case
Mock
Assertion
Regression
Happy Path
Training Run
Neon Commit
Happy Path
Edge Case
Mock
Training Run
Happy Path
Training Run
Mock
Training Run

See it
for yourself.

Watch the films