Hell Grind
production · in 20 sources (2026)
Within: Roko, Lulu, Jax, Rain
Sources by year: 2026: 20
Also known as: Hellgrind
Threads
- Hell Grind (Higgsfield Original Series) — project history, completed, 2026
- Adil: show the first generation day of the Hell Grind feature, a Claude shot list and the credit spend in the next episode (2026) — promise, kept, 2026
- Adil says the first draft of the full Hell Grind film will be finished by episode 3 (2026) — promise, kept, 2026
- Adil goes from bartender in Canada to premiering an AI film in Cannes — story, told 2×, 2026
Also named in the threads: Canvas · Arena Zero (Higgsfield Original Series) · Zephyr: Cuties on Duty (Higgsfield Original Series) · Mork (Higgsfield Original Series) · Adil: leave the Hell Grind prompt adherence skill in the description (2026) · KÖK BÖRÜ (Higgsfield Original Series)
Often together
What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.
Canvas (8) · Higgsfield Originals (5) · Zephyr (3) · AI look (5) · Higgsfield Global Film Festival (3) · Claude (11) · Seedance 2.0 (10) · pack shot (2) · character sheet (4) · multi-shot prompt (2)
What the videos say
The most important statements of each year; all statements.
2026
- 2026-04-16 · Hell Grind - Episode 1 · Higgsfield Original Series (2026) — announcement: Higgsfield releases Episode 1 of Hell Grind, a 22-minute pilot of the Higgsfield Original Series that it says was made from start to finish with Seedance 2.0. — video description
- 2026-04-30 · World's First Ever 80 Minute AI Film · Road to Cannes Ep. 1 — announcement: Adil says the team will present a fully AI-generated 80-minute feature film, the continuation of Hell Grind, at Cannes in less than a month, with 10 million credits, 15 people and 14 days. — 00:00:00 · also in: How to Make AI Films That Don't Look AI (Full Tutorial)
- Adil says the 22-minute Hell Grind Episode 1 kept 253 videos out of 16,181 Seedance 2.0 generations and 107 images out of 10,701, and spent 1,152,095 credits, about $69,000. — 00:02:24
- 2026-05-09 · How to Make AI Films That Don't Look AI (Full Tutorial) — Patrick Kalyn estimates that Hell Grind, made with a traditional shoot and visual-effects pipeline where almost every other shot is a VFX shot, would cost about 15 to 20 million US dollars. (hedged) — 00:32:42
- 2026-05-16 · How to Make Ultra Realistic AI Videos (28 Best Tips) — Adil: On day 8 of 14 the Hell Grind team had the full draft of the feature, as planned, but Adil judged it not good enough: 110 minutes of footage had to be cut to 90. — 00:00:22
- 2026-05-19 · Hell Grind · Official Trailer · Higgsfield Original Series — announcement: Higgsfield releases the official trailer of Hell Grind, which it calls the world's first 90-minute sci-fi heist feature film produced entirely with Higgsfield AI, now screening at the Cannes Film Festival. — video description
- Higgsfield says the Hell Grind team of 15 directors, DPs and editors generated over 16,000 video clips for the 253 final shots of the first episode, all for under $500K in total, against $50M+ for a comparable traditional production. — video description
- 2026-06-10 · The $500,000 AI Film Screening in Cannes! · Full Vlog — a guest: A Higgsfield speaker says Hell Grind took a team of 15 people two weeks, with a budget slightly under half a million dollars. — 00:07:27
- 2026-08-04 · Hell Grind · World's First Ever AI Feature Film · Higgsfield Originals (2026) — announcement: Higgsfield open-sources the entire Hell Grind production for free: every prompt, asset and reference behind the film, from character consistency across 95 minutes to shot-by-shot prompting. — video description
- 2026-08-05 · Hell Grind: Rebuilding Our Biggest Fight Scene from Scratch — announcement: Adil: Because everyone kept asking how Hell Grind was made, Higgsfield open-sourced the whole project: every prompt, every asset and every iteration, ready to recreate it. — 00:00:00
- After days of rewriting the same shots, the Hell Grind team packed its workflow into one Claude skill that structures prompts in four parts: asset tags as simple anchors, spatial coordinates in meters, time-coded movements in seconds and strict rules against hallucination. — 00:03:09 · also in: Direct AI fight scenes through controlled iteration: Blueprint the fight before motion
- 2026-08-10 · Higgsfield Global Film Festival: How to Enter, Rules, and the $1,000,000 Prize Pool — announcement: Higgsfield: Ahead of the festival, Higgsfield open-sourced Hell Grind (four street kids wake an ancient evil in a museum heist) and Zephyr (heroes defend their city from an alien invasion): every prompt, asset and generation behind every scene is public.
- …and 99 statements more in 2026 — all statements of 2026
Also named in: Full Episode in The Related Video! (1), Full Episode in The Related Video! (2)