Studio Wildcard
The problem
A pre-launch deadline left no time to produce narrative cutscenes the traditional way — the studio needed finished cinematics fast, not a production pipeline to build first.
The approach
Work directly from the studio's own storyboards and character designs, so the output matched their story and cast rather than inventing new ones.
What was built
Generative-AI video production turning storyboards and character art into finished loading-sequence cutscenes — the cinematics that carry a game's story forward while the next area loads.
The outcome
Finished cutscenes delivered ahead of launch. Active client of Bespoken AI Solutions.
Studio Wildcard, the studio behind Ark: Survival Evolved and Ark: Survival Ascended, came to Gavin against a pre-launch deadline. What they needed sits in a specific spot in how a game is built: the cutscene that plays over a loading sequence, carrying the story forward while the next area loads in behind it — standard practice in games since at least Call of Duty 4, and a way to turn a technical necessity into narrative rather than a spinner on a black screen.
There wasn’t time to build that content the traditional way before launch. The studio supplied its own storyboards and character designs — the story and the cast were already set — and the job was to turn that into finished cutscenes fast enough to ship with the game, using generative-AI video production rather than a full traditional animation pipeline.
Paired with Pendleton, this is one of two named clients that directly demonstrate live, production-scale generative-AI implementation for real businesses — exactly the track record the 2026 AI-creative job market is asking for.
Storyboards and characters in, finished loading-sequence cutscenes out, ahead of launch.