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Zephyr

production · in 14 sources (2026)

Zephyr is a Higgsfield Original K-pop action series about five heroes facing an alien invasion, directed by Ilya Karchin with the Higgsfield team and generated entirely on Seedance 2.0. Its intro and Episode 1 came out in April 2026; the directors kept characters consistent with Soul Cinema for face and outfit, fused in Nano Banana Pro. In August 2026 it was open-sourced, and Zephyr: Special, made with Seedance 2.5, was released for the Higgsfield Global Film Festival.

Part of: Higgsfield Originals · Within: Naomi, Zero, Mira (character, “Zephyr”), Haru Min, Reina, Kai Jun

Sources by year: 2026: 14

Also known as: ZEPHYR

Threads

Also named in the threads: Arena Zero (Higgsfield Original Series) · Hell Grind (Higgsfield Original Series) · Mork (Higgsfield Original Series) · Higgsfield: enter the Higgsfield Global Film Festival, submissions 10 August to 3 September 2026 (2026) · Higgsfield Global Film Festival (2026)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Higgsfield Originals (5) · Higgsfield Global Film Festival (3) · Seedance 2.0 (10) · Higgsfield Moodboards (2) · Nano Banana Pro (6) · face swap (2) · Hailuo 2.3 (2) · Wan 2.6 (2) · Hell Grind (3) · Popcorn (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2026

  • 2026-04-02 · ZEPHYR - AI Short Film Intro (Seedance 2.0) — announcement: Higgsfield releases the intro of Zephyr: Cuties on Duty, a show born within Higgsfield Original Series about five glamorous heroes facing an alien bug invasion. — video description
  • 2026-04-07 · World’s First Ever K-Pop AI Series Using Seedance 2.0 (Zephyr Breakdown) — Higgsfield: For all five Zephyr characters the directors used a three-step pipeline: Soul Cinema for the face, Soul Cinema for the outfit, and Nano Banana Pro to fuse them into one production-ready image.
    • For Zephyr's K-pop sequence the music was generated separately and uploaded into Seedance 2.0 as an element with the lyrics before any movement was generated, so the song's beat and energy were part of the generation.
  • 2026-04-08 · We Made a K-Pop Action Series Using Seedance 2.0 — announcement: Tanya says Zephyr, with five characters and a monster invasion and no traditional production, was built entirely inside Higgsfield with Seedance 2.0, and shows how its directors made it. — 00:00:35
    • Tanya: To keep the five Zephyr characters consistent, the directors used a three-step workflow: Soul Cinema for the face, Soul Cinema for the outfit, and Nano Banana Pro to fuse them. — 00:03:16
    • Tanya: For Zephyr's K-pop sequence the song was generated separately and uploaded into Seedance 2.0 as an element with its lyrics, so the music was part of the generation and not added after. — 00:10:33
  • 2026-04-10 · Zephyr - Episode 1 · Higgsfield Original Series (2026) — announcement: Higgsfield releases the full Episode 1 of Zephyr, its AI original series made with Seedance 2.0 on Higgsfield. — video description
  • 2026-04-30 · World's First Ever 80 Minute AI Film · Road to Cannes Ep. 1 — Adil says 15 people, him included, work on the Hell Grind feature: the same people who made the Higgsfield Original Series Arena Zero, Hell Grind and Zephyr. — 00:01:02
  • 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.
    • Higgsfield advises festival entrants to open its three open-sourced projects (Hell Grind, Zephyr, The Cully Hill Boys) before writing a single prompt, to see the full path of a competition-quality project inside the platform.
  • 2026-08-11 · Zephyr - Special Episode · Higgsfield Original Series (2026) — announcement: Higgsfield releases Zephyr: Special, a new episode of its K-pop action series Zephyr, made entirely with AI and open-sourced for the $1,000,000 Higgsfield Global Film Festival. — video description
  • 2026-10-20 · 5 Best AI Video Generators for Long Videos — Higgsfield's blog says Hell Grind was released as an open project with every prompt and asset in August 2026, and Zephyr and Mork were opened the same way.
  • …and 16 statements more in 2026 — all statements of 2026

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