Case Study: The History Channel transforms Life After People with Runway ML

How Eggplant Picture & Sound transformed History Channel's "Life After People" with Runway

The History Channel partnered with Eggplant Picture & Sound to complete the third season of *Life After People*, a series with highly complex destruction and disaster visuals. With no budget for a traditional VFX pipeline and a project that had previously been shelved, the team needed a faster, more cost-effective way to deliver high-end shots.

Using Runway ML, Eggplant integrated AI video tools like reference features and Aleph into its existing production workflow to generate and refine scenes in hours instead of weeks. The results were significant: the team saved about a month of post-production time, cut roughly 4 hours of compositing work on a single scene, and helped bring a previously paused project to completion.

The History Channel

Geoff Marshall

Creative Director