Umut Aral

What does an AI-generated spin-off of a live-action drama look like when a major streamer picks it up globally? Prime Video just answered that with a Turkish franchise that already has a huge following. Çukur: Vartolu is a spin-off from Ay Yapim's hit series Çukur, known internationally as The Pit. Variety reports that Prime Video took global rights. The film comes from Ay Yapim's Singapore AI studio, AI Yapim, which also launched the AI historical drama Castle Walls on Prime Video in August. Every frame was generated with AI, from faces to settings. Human actors still performed the scenes so generation could follow movement, timing, and expression, and all dialogue was recorded by human voice actors. Umut Aral directed. The story follows how Salih becomes Vartolu, moving between childhood in Doğubeyazıt and a later reckoning in Istanbul. If you are learning AI filmmaking this week, try that split on one short scene: record a human performance and a voice track first, then generate the face and environment over that timing. Keep the take where the performance still leads. 🎬 #AIFilmmaking Link in Comments