21 of 148 tracked AI shorts · 9 channels · snapshot September 2026
AI short films that name the tool they were made with
Every "best AI video tool" list ranks the tools. This page ranks the shorts that were willing to say which tool they used, which turns out to be a small minority — and a useful one, because a named tool makes a format reproducible in a way a merely good-looking short does not.
How this slice was cut
The generation tool or platform is named in the short's own title. Mentions inside a description are not counted, and neither are labels this site put on an entry: both would credit a tool the uploader never named.
Slice: 21 of the 148 tracked AI shorts — a corpus defined as titles that declare AI-generated visuals, runtime under 30 minutes. A named tool is a credit, not a recipe. Nothing here confirms the tool made the visuals, and a short that used the same tool without mentioning it looks identical in this table to one that used something else.
No frame is inspected anywhere in this dataset. The index holds 4 slices, which are the ones clearing a floor of 12 rows — anything thinner is not built at all. Titles that talk about AI rather than being made with it — tutorials, reviews, tool launches — are out of the corpus entirely and carry their own marker.
Ranked by view velocity
Ordered by breakout score — views per day relative to the channel's own subscriber base. Every row opens the short on YouTube; the channel name goes to its page on this site. Rates are lifetime averages from a single capture, so a newer short always looks slower than an older one at the same quality.
All 21 rows of this slice are listed above. The parent board ranks the fastest 30 of the 148 tracked shorts instead — a different question (which shorts travel fastest overall), not a longer version of this list.
Which tools these titles name
Counted from the titles in this slice only, and a short can name more than one, so the column does not sum to 21. A low count is the finding, not a missing number: most AI shorts never say what made them.
| Tool named in the title | Shorts naming it |
|---|---|
| Sora | 8 |
| Seedance | 8 |
| Kling | 3 |
| Grok / Grok Imagine | 2 |
| Higgsfield | 2 |
The names that show up: Sora (8), Seedance (8), Kling (3), Grok / Grok Imagine (2), Higgsfield (2). Zero appearances in short titles: Adobe Firefly, Google Veo, Runway, Midjourney, Pika, Hailuo / MiniMax — which is why there are no pages for them. A tool with no titles naming it has nothing to rank, and guessing from mentions elsewhere would be exactly the kind of claim this site keeps removing.
What is in this slice
Niches represented
- Short Films & Stories — 10 shorts
- Kids / Learning — 4 shorts
- Feature Films & Series — 4 shorts
- Documentary / History — 1 short
- Sci-Fi / Time Travel — 1 short
- Romance / Mini-Drama — 1 short
Language markets
- English / Global — 21 shorts
The largest group is English / Global at 21 of 21; median channel size in this slice is 13.5K subscribers. Language is not audience — see the caveat above.
Related pages
- ← All AI short films
- AI movies (features + shorts) →
- AI short films published in the last 90 days
- AI short films that come in numbered episodes
- AI short films that are not in English
Method, limits and the snapshot date are documented on the AI movies page; short films that talk about AI rather than being made with it carry the Talking about AI, not an AI-made film marker instead. Page rebuilt 2026-09-25.