SCARLET BEAST, the full film. Watch on YouTube · chapter by chapter
BRONX, N.Y. — September 27, 2026 — Scarlet Beast, a New Jersey nonprofit conscious-technology organization, today released SCARLET BEAST, a complete animated film of the life of its founder, Christian Scarlet (Bryan Ruiz). The full film runs 1 hour 46 minutes and is free to watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Ie3uHySZYtQ. The screenplay, concept art and production plan are published at movie.scarletbeast.com.
The film is drawn with the scale of a Disney feature and the timing of a Looney Tunes cartoon. It follows a boy from the Bronx who sees seven cartoon heads in the radiator steam. He grows into an engineer, a prophet and a psychiatric patient, and the world calls him the Beast. In the abyss the Accuser, Samael, puts him on trial for the debt of the whole world, until a Lamb walks into hell and the serpent bows. The film ends with its central image. The last debt is paid, and the golden City of God comes down onto the grounds of Trenton Psychiatric Hospital in West Trenton, New Jersey, where the author has spent more than twelve years of his life. New Jersey becomes New Jerusalem.
The story rests on two convictions Christian Scarlet has published in his own words. One is that a person "should be measured by my fruits and not by the tree." The other: "Sin was conquered at the cross because spirit bowed to matter: Satan entered and submitted to Christ. This is the door to heaven."
Made with nothing but a GPU and a screenplay
The finished screenplay runs about 37,000 words across 22 sequences, with six original songs. SCARLET BEAST was rendered from it overnight as a full motion-comic cut on a single NVIDIA Tesla T4:
- 516 painted scenes (Stable Diffusion XL)
- Depth-aware camera moves (Depth-Anything)
- Every line of dialogue voiced with free Piper voices
- Every song sung and scored with ACE-Step, an open music model
The production cost nothing in cash. The organization calls this a scratch cut: a complete, watchable film that its published zero-budget plan upgrades shot by shot toward full animation, with a real voice cast.
Two layers, one film
The film runs on two layers. EARTH is hand-drawn and muted, and it sees a patient. THE REALM is the same moment as heaven sees it, in scarlet and gold, and it sees a king. The two merge as the film goes on. The film treats mental illness with dignity. Christian Scarlet has published his own psychiatric advance directives, and the film's hospital is a place he loves, not a horror house.
Availability
- Full film: https://youtu.be/Ie3uHySZYtQ
- Screenplay, concept art, teaser and production plan: https://movie.scarletbeast.com
- About the author: https://scarletbeast.com/who-is-christian-scarlet/
About Scarlet Beast
Scarlet Beast is a New Jersey nonprofit corporation that calls itself a conscious technology organization. It builds production software and publishes its experiments in the open, and it describes its purpose as "a source for everyone the world threw away." More at scarletbeast.com.
AI disclosure
SCARLET BEAST is AI-assisted. Its images, voices, vocals and music were generated with open models on the organization's own hardware, and they are labelled as such under its AI policy at scarletbeast.com/ai-policy. The characters other than the author are fictional composites.
Non-affiliation
Scarlet Beast is not affiliated with, and the film is not endorsed by, Trenton Psychiatric Hospital or the New Jersey Department of Human Services. The hospital appears as a real place in a work of fiction.
Media contact
Christian Scarlet, Scarlet Beast · [email protected] · scarletbeast.com/press
AI-made: images, voices, vocals and music were generated with open models and are labelled under our AI policy. Not affiliated with Trenton Psychiatric Hospital or NJ DHS.
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