Story and real world physics in AI filmmaking with Kavan Cardoza.

January 20th, 2026
Author: Matias Basso

We are back in the trenches of film creativity with leading film director and innovator Kavan Cardoza, deep into his ambitious construction of The Chronicles of Bone, a dark fantasy series that folds public domain characters into an original world and new, authored storylines.

We talk about part two of the series, about the popularity of public domain material, the legal freedom it offers, and the discipline of writing the screenplay properly before generation begins. Then we get even more specific.

We break down real workflow decisions across Veo Flow, Nano Banana, and other tools, including how voice consistency can lock in when you stay inside the same Flow project and why iteration fatigue is still the core challenge in the medium.

Kavan shares his simple but powerful method for character design: he starts with physical masks and wardrobe (bought on Etsy!), shoots them for real, and then pushes them through the pipeline to escape the usual AI training set look. We also walk through his solo process from script to characters to storyboards to animation, plus what is improving fast, what still fails under pressure, and what needs to land in the tech before quality long-form action becomes a reality.


Kavan’s Company: PhantomX

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