OpenAI's new Sora video is a parody of nature documentaries, depicting a variety of strange hybrid creatures that could never exist in the real world.

The new video, "Beyond Our Reality," was created by Don Allen III, a former DreamWorks Animation creative and now an interdisciplinary artist specializing in AR and XR content.

This is the latest in a series of videos produced by professional artists, musicians, and creatives using Sora, including a rain-soaked music video.

Beyond Our Reality promotes a new fictional series featuring animals such as foxes ravens, giraffes flamingos, and a herd of flying pigs.

"I feel like we are ushering in a new era of creative storytelling that we collectively could not have imagined before! Stay curious and stay creative," Allen said of using Sola.

The video is a trailer for a new fictional eight-part nature series, explaining what to expect in each episode and showing footage of strange creatures (created by Sora).

Some of these pieces are incredibly disturbing, such as the rabbit armadillo and the reptilian roo. Sora has created ultra-realistic images that look like real nature documentaries.

Allen says that Sola has allowed him to expand the "limits of his imagination." He described Sola's images as blurring the line between reality and fantasy.

"I tried to ground my output in something familiar, like animals, but currently impossible in biology: hybrid creatures," he added.

This kind of visual effect is not new: Netflix has a documentary about how otherworldly creatures look and a show about dinosaurs created by Sir David Attenborough himself.

A major change is access to effects. It is not cheap to create visual effects on the scale of those presented in Beyond Our Reality.

What Sora and other tools like Higgsfield, or those already available, will make possible is that more people will be able to add VFX flares.

For example, Sora allows extremely talented YouTube and TikTok creators to add unreality to their sketches, skits, and creations.

Allen writes "As I step into this new era, I understand the anxiety surrounding the rapid evolution of the creative industry, and I truly believe that Sora offers me a different kind of visual canvas that will expand my creative possibilities and complement my various creative techniques."

"I've always been a one-person creative studio, so I was limited in what I could create on my own. With Sora, I feel that I can tell stories on a scale that I previously thought was impossible."