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The Dream of the Princess continues a film series built with licensed digital characters, generated imagery and human performances.
View FilmThe Ferry Man combines familiar actors with a fantastical digital world. Their likenesses and voices carry into AI-produced films filled with creatures, transformations and centuries-old mysteries.
A general joined to his warhorse has spent centuries collecting gifts for a princess he cannot forget. That strange, mournful figure sits at the heart of The Dream of the Princess, the third film in iQIYI and GHY Culture & Media’s AI-produced series.
The production generated artwork for characters, sets and props, then created video under the director’s guidance. Three lead actors licensed their likenesses and recorded their own voices. Digital assets were developed for reuse, helping the films retain recognizable characters and a shared world.
Producer Li Zhichao’s account describes a team learning how to make generated footage behave like film material they could edit.
Audio arrived with dialogue, music and effects mixed together. That made it difficult to adjust a line, rebalance a scene or shape an emotional moment, so the team rebuilt the sound. Upscaling footage from 1080p to 4K introduced frame problems that disrupted lip sync, requiring painstaking manual correction.
Those details reveal the craft behind the finished work. Generating a scene was one step; making its voices, timing and images belong together required experienced people. The production sources describe that process without naming the exact AI model stack.
Licensed likenesses and recorded dialogue gave the digital characters a connection to the original performers.
Generated assets and footage brought the fantasy settings and action to the screen.
Editing, sound production and manual corrections shaped that material into complete films.
Their likenesses and voices carry into films filled with creatures, transformations and centuries-old mysteries.
The Ferry Man offers a compelling meeting of established performers and new production methods. Its digital characters can return across stories, allowing the filmmakers to keep expanding a world rooted in Chinese fantasy.
The production generated artwork for characters, sets and props, then created video under the director’s guidance. Three lead actors licensed their likenesses and recorded their own voices. Digital assets were developed for reuse, helping the films retain recognizable characters and a shared world.
