Case Study: House of David Speeds Up VFX and Creates Photoreal Scenes with Runway ML

How “House of David” Used Runway to Become Amazon’s Latest Hit Series

House of David, the historical epic series from Kingdom Story Company and The Wonder Project in collaboration with Amazon MGM Studios, needed a way to create ambitious, photoreal VFX scenes quickly and cost-effectively. The team wanted to bring complex sequences—especially Episode Six’s Goliath origin scene—to life with consistent characters, environments, and heavy simulation work while staying within a tight production schedule.

Runway ML provided generative AI tools that the team used as high-end previs and to up-res shots into final-quality visuals, alongside traditional VFX workflows. With Runway ML, the production completed the scene in a couple of weeks instead of the four to five months a traditional process would have taken, saving about five months of post-production time and helping House of David become Amazon Prime’s #1 show after the season finale, with 22 million viewers in the first 17 days.

House of David

Jon Erwin

Writer, Director and Producer, and serves as CEO