The challenge
Coherence at long-form scale
Maintain character identity, geography, action logic, light and emotional continuity across hundreds of generated and reviewed shots.
CHEICK KANTE — AI FILMMAKER & CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST
Stories with
a living soul.
I build and ship AI-native animated films—from story and multimodal prompting to multilingual voices, editing, publishing, and audience growth.
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20original films
11.5M+catalogue views
57K+YouTube audience ↗420K+TikTok audience ↗Flagship case study
Released Aug 15, 2026
Souroukouba and Faliba
— The Donkey's Cry
Souroukouba ni Fali ku, dama tèmè dan - Conte animé en Bambara et Français
A completed long-form AI production built from story development through release—and the clearest example of how I turn experimentation into a repeatable creative system.
Finished film562,231 catalogue views
“The challenge was to sustain a believable world across an entire film instead of just generating few beautiful images/sequences.”
Souroukouba exhausts a village's trust by turning an alarm donkey's cry into a game, then discovers no one believes him when danger is real.
My role
Full-stack creative production
The result
A released film, not a demo
A finished Bambara/French story, published to an established audience and repurposed into social-first material.
The production system
Creative decisions that survive the pipeline.
- 01Story and dramatic intent
- 02Reusable character and location references
- 03Shot planning and continuity anchors
- 04Image and video model comparison
- 05Multilingual voice, edit and quality review
- 06Long-form release and social-first repurposing
Model evaluation in production
Same scene objective. Better reference discipline. A visible reduction in identity and world drift.
A safe prompt excerpt
Prompting as a production contract.
The brief describes what the shot must communicate, which references must remain stable and what failures invalidate the result.
- Objective
- Show the correct, respectful way to call the village for help.
- References
- Faliba, mare's son and the established alert-post village.
- Action
- Approach → gentle tail pull → alarm response → community consequence.
- Camera
- Establishing wide → approach → contact close-up → response wide.
- Continuity
- Same geography, warm late-afternoon light and intact tail state.
- Failure checks
- No character swaps, broken anatomy, theatrical panic or location drift.
Selected films
Stories I
shipped.
Long-form animated stories built, finished and published for the Souroukouba & Zozaniba audience.
Souroukouba exhausts a village's trust by turning an alarm donkey's cry into a game, then discovers no one believes him when danger is real.
In a village where no one is left alone in times of trouble, pulling Faliba's tail brings everyone running. But Souroukouba the hyena discovers that the donkey's cry can also draw attention to him.
Lie after lie, Souroukouba wears down Faliba's voice and the villagers' trust—until danger becomes real and no one believes him. A Malian tale about mutual aid, lies and the price of trust.
Animated folktaleTrustMutual aid
After N'Golo's hard work brings abundance to barren land, his jealous brother Moussa seeks the spirits' power and faces a painful lesson in humility.
Healed and blessed by the djinns and Zozaniba, N'Golo transforms dry land into abundance through work and wisdom. His success drives his older brother Moussa to madness.
Determined to recover his former status, Moussa enters the forest to demand power from the spirits, only to face a lesson in humility. This tale explores karma, arrogance, forgiveness and compassion.
Animated folktaleKarmaFamily
Publicly humiliated and left hungry by his brother, N'Golo begins a perilous journey that will test his dignity, resilience and kindness.
In Kiribodougou, Moussa lives in abundance while his younger brother N'Golo faces public humiliation, hunger and contempt. The cruelty of one brother slowly tears apart the bonds of family.
When N'Golo is pushed beyond endurance, he ventures into the bush with very little water. An unexpected encounter opens a path shaped by dignity, resilience and compassion.
Animated folktaleResilienceCompassion
Repeatable creative workflow
From model tests
to finished stories.
I use generative tools as a production medium: testing their limits, keeping the useful decisions visible and building a repeatable path from idea to audience.
Story & shot system
I translate a narrative into scenes, beats and camera intentions before generation, so every shot has a job beyond looking good.
Story → scenes → shot intentPrompt & reference iteration
I test models against the same brief, lock visible references and document failure modes to keep characters, places and action coherent.
Adherence → consistency → selectionVoice & localization
I direct multilingual speech and align performance, timing and captions so Bambara and French storytelling can travel without losing its rhythm.
Voice → timing → captionsEdit, release & growth
I finish long-form episodes, package them for YouTube and turn the strongest hooks into social-first teasers and short-form series.
Film → package → audiencePRODUCTION STACKGPT Image Nano Banana Seedance PixVerse Kling ElevenLabs Fish Audio DaVinci Resolve
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About Cheick Kante
I build the system.
Then ship the story.
I'm an independent AI filmmaker and creative technologist based in Paris. I combine story development, creative direction, multimodal prompting, model evaluation, voice and editing to make complete films—not isolated experiments.
Alongside filmmaking, I bring 6+ years of enterprise consulting experience: leading cross-functional work, making complex systems understandable and turning experimentation into reliable delivery.
01Paris, FranceRemote across Europe
02French & BambaraNative
03EnglishFull professional proficiency