Short film · Honestree Island

AI vs Gods

An eight-minute animated short film co-produced with 3Doubles Producciones, inspired by Lovecraft’s ancient gods and set in the Pacific Blue universe.

Format
Animated short film
Runtime

8 minutes and 24 seconds

Co-production

Honestree Island & 3Doubles Producciones

The film

Synopsis

An artificial intelligence has learned to do everything: calculate, predict, dominate. It believes that nothing in the universe escapes its control. But it wasn’t looking for it. One day, without warning, the unknown stands before it—an ancient, vast, and indifferent truth that existed long before it did, and that obeys no rules it can process. And in that instant, the machine experiences the only thing it never knew how to calculate: its first emotion, fear.

What begins as the certainty of a machine that thinks itself a god turns into the vertigo of discovering that there are much older gods—and that reason, in the face of cosmic horror, is not a weapon, but a trap. The more it tries to comprehend what lies before it, the closer it edges to the brink of something from which there may be no return.

A clash between the ultimate intelligence and unfathomable Lovecraftian terror, where the question is not who will win, but what remains of the mind when it faces what it was never meant to look upon.

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Trailer

From the film

Team

Credits

Written and Directed by: JB Saussol

Country: Spain

Production: Honestree Island, in co-production with 3Doubles Producciones

Format/Technique: CGI and 2D animation

Animation and Motion Capture Directors: Fernanda Santin, Fran León Galván

Animation Supervisor: Mario Palma

Editor: Carlos Pablo Fariña García-Ramos

Sound Design: Kiko Castro (recorded at Arteria Films Studios)

Original Music: Abdón Alcaraz

Language: Spanish

Year: 2026

Source: Original screenplay

Genre: Science fiction / Cosmic horror

Selections

Festival selections

  • ShortlistedSitges Family section — 59th Sitges Film Festival
  • Official SelectionOut of competition — FilmQuest Festival

Part of Certain

One universe, many stories

AI vs Gods is a nod to Certain, the franchise that brings together every story in this universe — from the 2098 wars against the AIs to the year 2257.

Videogame

A AAA game trilogy set in 2257, the future of this world.

Animated series

A 3D neo-noir animated series set in 2203, after the war against the AIs.

Contact

Production enquiries

ContactJuan Saussol

Phone+34 658 84 85 65

Emailjuan.saussol@honestree.es

LinkedInJuan Saussol

Honestree Island

Honestree Studios

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