FOUNDER HISTORY + NAKID EVOLUTION

NAKID began in 2015 as a raw, unfiltered art and music magazine created by Dustin Hollywood, a multidisciplinary filmmaker, photographer, designer, and visual artist known for pushing boundaries long before generative tools existed. What started as a counter-culture publication quickly grew into an international platform showcasing emerging creators, underground scenes, and experimental storytelling. Dustin built NAKID into a widely recognized creative force with millions of reach across social media, hundreds of artist features, gallery shows, events, and collaborations across fashion, music, and art.

Parallel to that, Dustin spent over a decade shaping his cinematic craft: directing narrative projects, designing immersive experiences, and developing hybrid workflows that blurred practical filmmaking with experimentation. He became an early pioneer in AI-driven visual storytelling, creating acclaimed generative films, including “Tzigane,” one of the first AI-cinematic works to screen at major festivals and art institutions. His work established him as a leading voice in the emerging field of machine-assisted filmmaking and Generated VFX, as well as a champion of creator-first ethics in the generative arts.

As Dustin’s body of work evolved, NAKID evolved with it. What began as a magazine transformed into a broader creative identity centered around innovation, experimentation, and cultural impact. NAKID Pictures emerged as the next phase: a dedicated film and art studio that carries the same rebellious DNA as the original publication but now focuses on unlocking a new era of visual storytelling and assisting Hollywood in harnessing this new technology to assist in hybrid workflows that save time and money while working hand-in-hand with VFX artists, cinematographers, writers, producers and directors. It operates at the intersection of cinema, technology, and experiential art, uniting traditional filmmaking with cutting-edge generative and computational tools.

Today, NAKID Pictures develops films, series, motion experiments, world-building projects, assists in VFX hybrid filmmaking across Film & TV, and creates new immersive generative art experiences powered by bold ideas and uncompromising vision of what’s possible. The studio collaborates with artists, engineers, musicians, and designers globally, building work that challenges convention and expands what visual media can be. Its mission is simple: create fearlessly, innovate relentlessly, and redefine how stories are made, shared, and experienced.

NAKID Pictures is where experimentation becomes narrative, craftsmanship meets technology, and imagination is treated as a serious engine for the future of cinema. We welcome those that would also seek this future to come talk to us and lets expand the history of storytelling!