Real creators. Making mischief.

Wonder Studios is a London-based AI film studio and the team behind TBC’s brand film. The biggest change wasn’t the footage but the workflow. On slow, expensive models you wait on every take, ration your ideas and lose the thread while the render runs. With mischief 1 fast enough to keep up, the team stayed in flow, trying more ideas and choosing from hundreds of takes instead of settling for the few they could afford.

Atlas Berry is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and media creator. His seven-year-old daughter fills notebooks with characters and stories, so he borrowed a few pages to see if he could bring one to life. He had ChatGPT draw her main character, a bright orange fuzz ball alone on a hilltop, and gave that image to mischief 1 along with her story: a lonely fuzz ball looking for friends. A creative workflow on top of the model pitched three ways to tell it, built the cast and a six-shot storyboard, and then made the short you see here. The cost: over 16 minutes of video for $5. That’s cheaper than a box of crayons.

Justin Hackney is co-founder of Wonder Studios. He spent three weeks putting mischief 1 to work inside Dream Canvas, his custom-built app where AI agents help a story take shape from branching takes. In TBC’s benchmark, mischief 1 ran 12x faster and cost 88% less than the base model, Wan 2.2. Justin saw it in practice: 2,511 clips in three weeks for $125.55, at about 16 seconds a clip. His takeaway: when takes are this fast and this cheap, you stop rationing and start exploring.

A.J. Garces is a Los Angeles director, creative director, visual effects artist and stand-up comedian. For Halloween, he went back to 1980s horror films and made “Night of the Pumpkin,” a throwback with doorbell ditchers, a flaming pumpkin head and a mischievous old woman. He generated 28 five-second clips at 720p in 6.5 minutes with mischief 1, under 14 seconds a clip. What impressed him most was how accurately the model handled camera and subject movement, and how fast he could get his footage into the edit.

Meng To is a designer, developer and founder of Design+Code. Meng built TBC’s technology page, which shows how we go from the dish to a video model like mischief 1. He then put the model through its paces. What stood out was the speed and, above all, the cost and the possibilities it unlocks. In his five-minute walkthrough, he tours the page and gives his honest take on the model.