At SIGGRAPH 2026, AI video platform Higgsfield just premiered Kök Börü, its first 15-minute animated film, presenting the short alongside a walkthrough of the hybrid human-AI pipeline used to produce it. Set in 15th-century Central Asia, Kök Börü is a historical drama rooted in Central Asian nomadic life and folklore. In Kök Börü, a young nomadic mother, Ana, is forced to choose which of her two children to save from a wolf pack during a blizzard, losing her little daughter to the steppe. The production team consisted of 12 people: five animators, two screenwriters, three sound producers, a color artist and a sound supervisor. Higgsfield is an AI video platform for professional production, used by marketing teams, Fortune 500 brands, studios and filmmakers to create cinematic-quality content at scale.