Xianren Yikun

闲人一坤 (Xianren Yikun) is the online name of Chen Kun (陈坤), a Chinese film and television producer with more than twenty years in the business and the founder of Xingxian Culture (星贤文化), according to a Jiemian profile. He began his career making variety shows and worked on large productions including The Voice of China and Street Dance of China. After starting his own company he took on big live events such as the Henan TV Spring Festival Gala and also made fantasy short dramas.

He became known in the AI video scene in December 2023 and January 2024, when he used AI tools to make a trailer for a Classic of Mountains and Seas (山海经) film called Shanhai Qijing. In its description he wrote that the era when everyone can make a blockbuster themselves is not far off. The trailer drew wide industry discussion, and he published the tools and workflow behind it.

He then directed the Shanhai Qijing short drama series with Kuaishou's Kling (可灵) team. Reports say the writing, editing and voice work were done by real people while the images were generated with AI, Midjourney for the stills and Kling to animate them. AI Xinbang describes him as one of the first creators in China to deliver AI video commercially, a close collaborator of Runway, PixVerse and Pika, and among the first creators given Kling's closed beta.

His company went on to take paid AI projects, including an AI short about Mei Lanfang, an AI advertisement for Arctic Ocean (北冰洋), a promo for Hunan TV and a theme-song music video for the Asian Winter Games. In 2025 he directed 无名特工队 (The Nameless Agents), an AIGC animated series that Douyin's Jiuwuqi Theatre released over the Spring Festival, one 3-4 minute episode a day from the first to the fifth day of the new year. Set in Hong Kong, it follows a group of nobodies who save the world, with Stephen Chow style touches.