SHOWCASE
TOBY HYDER
Contact
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@XOlinkfilm
Instagram - Instagram(@xolink.ai)
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Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/toby-hyder-161171a2/
Meet TOBY
Toby Hyder is an AI filmmaker and creative technologist specialising in cinematic storytelling through emerging tools. His work blends historical realism, volumetric capture, custom LoRa’s and generative AI to create films that feel grounded, human, and intentional.
His award-winning film Bones of Yew explores the Hundred Years’ War through the perspective of a peasant archer, combining scanned performances with AI-generated environments to reconstruct the past with emotional and visual authenticity.
Through his studio XOLINK, Toby develops AI-driven production workflows that prioritize identity, realism, and narrative integrity—bridging the gap between traditional filmmaking and generative systems.
TECH STACK:
Bones of Yew
A cinematic retelling of the Hundred Years’ War through the eyes of a peasant archer. The film explores themes of nature, faith, and class, using AI to reconstruct historical environments and performances with a grounded, human perspective.
Tech Stack:
Actor XOlink subject scan / volumetric data capture
Generative video (Runway / Kling / Veo)
Flux Schnell LoRa, Google nano banana,
AI upscaling (Topaz)
Traditional edit + sound design workflow
Awake, Son Of Assyria
A hybrid AI film connecting ancient Assyrian history to modern football identity, using full-team scanning and generative environments to place real players into historical and symbolic settings.
Tech Stack:
Actor XOlink subject scan / volumetric data capture
Generative video (Runway / Kling / Veo)
Flux Schnell LoRa, Google nano banana,
AI upscaling (Topaz)
Traditional edit + sound design workflow
“Ai is a golden age for storytelling! let’s do it right, let’s do it well, with good Intention and ethics first.”
— Toby Hyder