First Flight

This Christmas holiday season, Artlist released a two-minute cinematic short film, First Flight. Made entirely with Artlist AI tools this video showcases a level of visual fidelity once reserved for Hollywood studios. This production wasn’t inspired by Pixar, but it is comparable to it.

The film opens with a glowing snowflake drifting through a winter sky, falling between trees before landing on the forehead of a young fawn, nestled between her mother’s legs.

From there, we follow the fawn’s journey to become something more.

She watches the herd gallop through the forest. She struggles to keep up — through mud, over fallen logs, across icy water. At one point, she looks into a frozen pool and imagines her antlers grown, glowing with the same light as the snowflake that chose her.

That moment changes everything. The snow keeps falling. The herd runs. Then they leap. And the fawn follows. Suddenly, they’re all airborne and flying.

The final shots pull back over a city at night. Two boys look up from their phones as Santa’s sleigh — pulled by reindeer, including the once-small fawn — crosses the sky.

The short ends with the message “This Christmas, create your own magic.”