This project was developed during Drexel University’s Star Program and focuses on the historical discovery of Peale’s Mastodon. Inspired by Charles Willson Peale’s written letters to his son, I created a short AI-generated film interpreting his account of the excavation.
To support the visual accuracy of the AI output, I modeled a detailed mastodon skeleton in ZBrush, textured it in Substance Painter, and rendered it in Maya using Redshift. This asset was used to guide the AI pipeline toward more anatomically consistent results.
The video was generated using Google Gemini and Flow, with AI-generated narration produced through Eleven Labs. The script was written by me and based directly on Peale’s historical correspondence.
Reconstructing Charles Willson Peale's Mastodon Excavation and Display Through Al