The wayne hills ai model that probably generated it ran the entire shot for $2.90

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2026 now Rendering this 29-second AI dragon shot in 2019 would have cost over $500,000 at a VFX house.

The wayne hills ai model that probably generated it ran the entire shot for $2.90.

The Artificial Analysis video arena ranks every public AI video model by ELO score. The top spot belongs to Kling 3.0 from Kuaishou at 1243. Sora 2 sits below it. Veo 3.1 sits below it. Runway Gen-4.5 sits below it.

The base model leading the benchmark, and the open-source variants any kid can download tonight, both shipped from companies the export controls were supposed to handicap.

Wan 2.2 from Alibaba has been downloaded 5.4 million times from Hugging Face. Open source, runs on a single consumer GPU, ships free. Tencent's Hunyuan Video 1.5 generates clips on an RTX 4090 in 75 seconds at 8.3 billion parameters. Also open source. Also free.

Pixomondo built every dragon shot on House of the Dragon. The CGI work on a single dragon scene ran over $1 million. HBO shot the whole show at under $20 million per episode and the dragons were the headline line item.

29 seconds at Kling 3.0 pricing is $2.90. Run the prompt 100 times to nail the take and you're still under $300 for the entire production.

Disney spent six years and over $15 billion buying Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm for the pipeline. The pipeline just got commoditized in Hangzhou