AI-driven production

The Legend of the Samurai

An animated action piece for cinema screens, built entirely with AI

Fusion Express
Client
Fusion Express
Discipline
AI
2026_327 · FUSION EX

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About the project

The brief and the answer

Fusion Express has long been a household name on the streets of Kaliningrad — so we turned that reputation into an actual legend. A samurai chef wanders across Asia in search of the perfect taste: he crosses distant lands, gathers ingredients and recipes, fights a dragon for the secret of a sauce and fends off a noodle kaiju. In the finale, wielding his blades mid-flight, he mixes the best ingredients into one enormous bowl of noodles. The film was made entirely with AI: 300 hours of generation, thousands of sketches, hundreds of tests and dozens of iterations. Most of that work will never reach the screen — but it is exactly what created the sense of full immersion.

  • Concept
  • Script
  • Directing
  • AI art
  • Animation
  • 2D graphics
  • Editing
  • Sound design
  • Music

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300 hrsof generation to assemble a single film
100%of the frame created by neural networks
Cinema advertising became as spectacular as the action people came to watch

Backstage

How it was made

First generations → final frames
The concept
Key frame
The legendary concept
Costume and props
What comes next

Project samurai

CEO
Roman Vakhitov
Director, editing, sound design
Andrey Kaus
AI artist
Andrey Kaus
Producer
Valeria Ivakina
Script
Daniil Novikov
2D graphics
Paulina Vrublevskaya

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