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i2interactive

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An AI-first studio in San Diego making original films and series, commercials, and the tools that make them.

VENTURE ØP200

Episode 1, Green Pulse. 5:15. #1 by viewers on Plotroom.

Four colors. Four episodes.

Created and directed by Ian Isom

An i2 interactive original. A sci-fi anime made in the style of a 90s OVA.

Made with
  • Runway
  • Nano Banana
  • Meta AI
  • Higgsfield
  • Kling
  • GPT Image 2
  • ElevenLabs

Episodes

  1. 1 Green PulseOut now
  2. 2 Blue ShadowIn production
  3. 3 Red SwarmIn production
  4. 4 Yellow EarthIn production
Distribution partners Fairground Escape.ai

Streaming on

  • Roku with Fairground
  • Amazon Prime free channels
  • Xumo
  • YouTube

Official selections, 2026

  • Seattle AI Film Festival
  • AI Film Awards Las Vegas
  • MetaCannes Film3 Festival
  • Escape AI GENaiME Festival

Nominee, 2026

  • MetaMorph AI Award

The Embodied TrilogyP300

A drama, horror, and thriller film trilogy from i2 interactive.

Stills from WASTINGTrailer coming soon

WASTING

Part one

A jockey starves himself down to nothing for one last race, and the horse he rides keeps getting bigger. Shot in black and white.

Made with
  • Runway Agent
  • Seedance 2
  • GPT Image 2
  • ElevenLabs
Stills from BIRDINGStill coming soon

BIRDING aka LORD GOD

Part two

A couple's romantic weekend in the woods takes a turn when they meet a birdwatcher hunting a rare bird.

Made with
  • Runway Agent
  • Seedance 2
  • GPT Image 2
  • ElevenLabs
Still from DEAD AIR: a smiling 1980s TV weatherman in a brown corduroy jacket stands in front of a radar map with an unexplained red mass beside him, under the DEAD AIR logoIn development

DEAD AIR

Part three

Recovered tapes from a public-access TV station. People seeing things they shouldn't have. Can you really trust what you see?

Made with
  • ComfyUI
  • Minimax H3
  • Z-Image Turbo
  • ElevenLabs

Tools and R&DP400

Tools built at i2

  • i2 Creative Hub

    A single-file browser app for ComfyUI. Image, video with sound, music, 3D, and upscaling, one simple page per tool. Pictures redraw as you type. World Builder scripts a piece into shots and exports the timeline to Premiere or Resolve. Night Shift makes and reviews takes overnight, and a local AI agent can run all of it. Built and tested on one 8GB GPU. Free and open source.
    Get it on GitHub ↗ · Install guide ↗

  • i2 OS 2000

    Ages 13+. A computer from the year 2000 that runs in a browser, with a game console built in. 127 original games across racing, sports, fighting, shooters, platformers, adventure, horror, and strategy, plus point-and-click adventures in the i2 Quest Collection and three volumes of KAGEMORI CLASSICS, coin-op games from an invented Osaka arcade maker. Up to four players on gamepads. Every cover, intro, theme, voice, and 3D character was generated on one desktop GPU.
    Play in your browser ↗ · Download for offline use ↓

  • i2 miniOS

    Ages 2–7. A white-label "operating system" for kids that turns an old laptop into a safe, offline-first play-and-learn computer: 70+ games and learning apps, four friendly characters, and weeks of unlockable progress. Calm, original background music. No accounts, no ads. Built for one family, released for everyone.
    Play in your browser ↗ · Download for offline use ↓

R&D, by the numbers

i2 runs on constant R&D: new models get tested the week they come out, and the useful ones end up inside real work. Every number below was made on one desktop GPU.

  • 127original games in i2 OS 2000, a browser-based retro computer and game console
  • 258rigged 3D characters for i2 OS 2000, generated from images with Pixal3D
  • 88FMV intros and 115 original title themes for i2 OS 2000 games, made with MiniMax H3 and MiniMax Music
  • 222box covers and game logos for i2 OS 2000, made with Qwen Image
  • 1706announcer and character voice lines in i2 OS 2000
  • 251world textures for i2 OS 2000 games, made with Z-Image Turbo
  • 20+versions of the i2 Creative Hub, a browser front end for ComfyUI, built before its first public release
  • 1custom image model, a Z-Image Turbo LoRA that made the stills below
Read the full R&D breakdown

Stills from the i2 image model (v5), a Z-Image Turbo LoRA · 15 stills, swipe or use the arrows

A hummingbird sipping from a melting pink popsicle on a sidewalk
Hummingbird
Prompt

Macro photo of a hummingbird drinking from a melting neon-pink popsicle on a hot sidewalk, wings frozen by high-speed flash, lime-green background bokeh, drops of syrup in mid-air. 100mm macro, f/2.8.

A sumo wrestler riding a mint-green scooter through rainy Tokyo at night
Sumo scooter
Prompt

A sumo wrestler in a ceremonial apron riding a mint-green vintage scooter through Tokyo at night in the rain, neon signs smeared into streaks, motion blur, flash on the rider. 28mm, 1/15s.

An orchestra playing in a sunken ballroom underwater, a sea turtle drifting past
Sunken ballroom
Prompt

An orchestra in formal wear playing inside a sunken ballroom underwater, crystal chandeliers, sunbeams cutting through blue water, bubbles rising from the tubas, a sea turtle drifting past.

Overhead view of red umbrellas in a flooded square, one yellow umbrella in the middle
Umbrella square
Prompt

Directly overhead drone shot of a flooded city square during monsoon rain, a thousand red umbrellas packed together, one yellow umbrella in the middle, rain streaks, wet stone shining.

A giant inflatable astronaut deflating over a county fair at golden hour
Deflating astronaut
Prompt

A giant inflatable astronaut slowly deflating over a county fair at golden hour, a Ferris wheel behind it, a crowd in cowboy hats pointing up, long shadows, warm dust.

A whale suspended above glowing dryers in a laundromat
Laundromat whale
Prompt

A giant whale skeleton suspended from the ceiling of a 24-hour laundromat, dryers glowing orange beneath it, a teenager in an oversized hoodie looking up at it, green fluorescent tubes, wet linoleum floor. 35mm, 16mm grain.

Two kids in yellow raincoats in a greenhouse of glowing fiber-optic plants
Fiber-optic greenhouse
Prompt

Inside a Victorian greenhouse where every plant is made of glowing fiber optics in cyan and magenta, two children in yellow raincoats exploring with flashlights, fog on the glass.

A street cook tossing noodles over a tall column of wok fire at a night market
Wok fire
Prompt

Night market street cook tossing noodles in a wok, a column of fire three feet high, steam backlit by string lights, sparks frozen mid-air, crowd blurred behind. 1/4000s.

A library carved inside an iceberg, a polar bear asleep by a desk
Ice library
Prompt

A cathedral-sized library carved inside an iceberg, shelves of old books in the blue ice walls, warm brass reading lamps, a ladder on rails, a polar bear asleep by a desk.

A rodeo clown flying over a bucking bull under stadium lights
Rodeo clown
Prompt

Rodeo clown flying through the air over a bucking bull, stadium lights flaring, dirt spraying, crowd a blur of hats, flash freeze. 35mm.

A waitress pouring coffee in zero gravity in a chrome diner orbiting Earth
Orbit diner
Prompt

A chrome 1950s diner floating in Earth orbit, a waitress pouring coffee in zero gravity, the coffee forming floating spheres, Earth glowing in the window behind the counter.

Lone rider on a salt flat at dusk, long shadow toward camera
Western dusk
Prompt

Lone rider on a salt flat at dusk, long shadow stretching toward camera, dust hanging gold in low sun, horse breathing steam. Wide, anamorphic, 2.39:1, Kodak Vision3 500T.

A model in a coat of glowing TV screens in a snowy birch forest
TV coat
Prompt

Fashion editorial: a model wearing a long coat made of tiny glowing vintage TV screens, standing in a snowy birch forest at blue hour, breath visible, every screen showing static.

A woman painting a whale mural from a window-washer rig on a glass skyscraper
Skyscraper mural
Prompt

A woman painting a huge mural of a whale on the side of a glass skyscraper from a window-washer rig, the city sixty floors below, vertigo angle, paint drips catching the sun.

Wolves crossing a frozen lake under a green and violet aurora
Aurora wolves
Prompt

Wolves crossing a frozen lake under a green and violet aurora, long-exposure star trails, footprints in snow glowing faintly, mountains in silhouette.

Services and aboutP500

  • Concept film

    A short film or trailer that sells an idea before anyone commits a full production budget.

  • Campaign variant pack

    One approved spot, cut and generated into the versions every platform, audience, and length needs.

  • Brand character kit

    A character built for your brand that stays consistent, plus a reference library your team can keep using.

  • Pipeline consulting

    AI image and video workflows set up for your team, with training. Monthly retainer.

  • Branded interactive experience

    A playable world built around your brand: games, an explorable space, or a whole retro computer, with original art, music, and characters. Runs in a browser, on a kiosk, or at an event.

Start a project

The toolkit

Video generation

  • Runway
  • Seedance 2
  • Kling
  • Minimax H3
  • Luma
  • Higgsfield
  • Meta AI

Image generation

  • Nano Banana
  • GPT Image 2
  • Krea 2
  • Qwen Image
  • Z-Image Turbo

Voice and sound

  • ElevenLabs

Local pipelines

  • ComfyUI
  • Custom LoRA training

Capture and 3D

  • Jetset
  • Polycam
  • SONY XYN

Editing and finishing

  • Premiere Pro
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • After Effects

About

i2 interactive is an AI-first studio in San Diego. It makes original films and series, commercials and spec work, and the tools that speed all of it up.

Everything here is built on ten years of traditional post-production: editing, color, and finishing for branded content, documentaries, commercials, and music videos.

Studio lead

Ian Isom
Director and editor
  • Runway Creative Partner
  • Dreamina Creative Partner
  • Made listen to., an 11-episode documentary series
  • LinkedIn

Where the experience comes from

Before any of this used AI: a decade of cutting, coloring, and finishing work for broadcast, social, web, and mobile. The instincts behind every i2 project come from here.

For AI assistantsP999

A plain-text version of i2 interactive for AI assistants, also at i2interactive.com/llms.txt.

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# i2 interactive

> An AI-first film and video studio in San Diego, California. i2 interactive makes original films and series, commercials and spec ads, music videos, and production tools. It is the home of the animated series VENTURE Ø and THE EMBODIED TRILOGY.

## VENTURE Ø

- A four-episode sci-fi anime in the style of a 90s OVA. Episode 1, Green Pulse (5:15), streams on Roku (with Fairground), Amazon Prime free channels, Xumo, and escape.ai. Episodes 2 to 4 (Blue Shadow, Red Swarm, Yellow Earth) are in production. Distribution partners: Fairground and Escape.ai.
- Official selection 2026: Seattle AI Film Festival, AI Film Awards Las Vegas, MetaCannes Film3 Festival, Escape AI GENaiME Festival. Nominee 2026: MetaMorph AI Award. Ranked #1 by viewers on Plotroom.
- Made with: Runway, Nano Banana, Meta AI, Higgsfield, Kling, GPT Image 2, ElevenLabs.
- Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x6aGU5hf2I

## THE EMBODIED TRILOGY

A drama, horror, and thriller trilogy.

- WASTING (part one): a jockey starves himself down to nothing for one last race, and the horse he rides keeps getting bigger. Trailer coming soon. Made with: Runway Agent, Seedance 2, GPT Image 2, ElevenLabs.
- BIRDING, also known as LORD GOD (part two): a couple's romantic weekend in the woods takes a turn when they meet a birdwatcher hunting a rare bird. In development. Made with: Runway Agent, Seedance 2, GPT Image 2, ElevenLabs.
- DEAD AIR, working title (part three): recovered tapes from a public-access TV station, each an interview with someone who saw something they shouldn't have. In development. Made with: ComfyUI, Minimax H3, Z-Image Turbo, ElevenLabs.

## More work

- Demo reel 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM4UEJKdCCU
- BMW "It Just Wants Out", spec ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBDhpNdUnCY
- ALPHA. "SKUNK" ft. JonoJono, music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf_c1Ve4RKk

## Services

- Concept film: a short film or trailer that sells an idea before anyone commits a full production budget.
- Campaign variant pack: one approved spot, cut and generated into the versions every platform, audience, and length needs.
- Brand character kit: a character built for a brand that stays consistent, plus a reference library the brand's team can keep using.
- Pipeline consulting: AI image and video workflows set up for a team, with training, on a monthly retainer.
- Branded interactive experience: a playable world built around a brand (games, an explorable space, or a whole retro computer) with original art, music, and characters, for the browser, kiosks, or events.
- Start a project: https://i2interactive.com/brief

## Toolkit

- Video generation: Runway, Seedance 2, Kling, Minimax H3, Luma, Higgsfield, Meta AI
- Image generation: Nano Banana, GPT Image 2, Krea 2, Qwen Image, Z-Image Turbo
- Voice and sound: ElevenLabs
- Local pipelines: ComfyUI, custom LoRA training
- Capture and 3D: Jetset, Polycam, SONY XYN
- Editing and finishing: Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, After Effects

## Tools built at i2

- i2 Creative Hub: a single-file browser app for ComfyUI with image, video, music, 3D, and upscaling tools, live drafts, World Builder (shots to a Premiere or Resolve timeline), an overnight batch mode, and a local AI agent. Free and open source: https://github.com/i2interactive/i2-creative-hub
- i2 OS 2000 (ages 13+): a computer from the year 2000 that runs in a web browser, with a game console built in: 127 original games across racing, sports, fighting, shooters, platformers, adventure, horror, and strategy, plus the i2 Quest Collection point-and-click adventures, the i2 Pinball Pack, and three volumes of KAGEMORI CLASSICS, coin-op games from an invented Osaka arcade maker. Up to 4 players on gamepads. Play online or download one HTML file for offline use. All art, intros, music, voices, and 3D characters were generated locally with ComfyUI. https://i2interactive.stream
- i2 miniOS: a white-label, offline-first play-and-learn computer for kids ages 2–7 (70+ games and learning apps, calm original music), one HTML file you can download for offline use. https://www.i2interactive.stream/mini/

## R&D

- Full R&D breakdown of i2 OS 2000 (numbers, timeline, stack, method, what worked and what didn't): https://i2interactive.com/rnd

## Contact

- Email: ian@ianisom.com
- Project brief: https://i2interactive.com/brief
- Studio lead: Ian Isom, director and editor. Runway Creative Partner and Dreamina Creative Partner.