OpenArt Director claims first place across all eight human-preference metrics, delivering the best overall quality at roughly 15% less cost than the second-place finisher
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES, September 14, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Director tops all eight human-preference metrics, securing the highest overall quality score while running at approximately 15% lower cost than the runner-up and 58% lower cost than the third-place agent
OpenArt Director, the latest product from OpenArt AI, the comprehensive AI creative platform and video generation tool that is transforming visual storytelling for over 8 million monthly active users, has secured the number-one position in anime on Physion Labs’ ARC 1.0 AI Video Agent Benchmark. This top finish represents the newest achievement in OpenArt’s goal of empowering creators at every experience level to craft complete, film-quality videos purely through conversation.
Crafting an anime narrative demands expressive characters, deliberate motion, and a visual world that maintains consistency across different scenes. Every shot must push the story forward while preserving the aesthetic and emotional tone that defines it. Physion’s benchmark assesses how effectively AI video agents integrate these components into a finished production.
“Our mission is to make creativity accessible. Bringing an idea to life shouldn’t depend on having a full production team or a large budget,” said Coco Mao, CEO of OpenArt. “We’re building Director to help more people tell the stories they imagine, with control over how those stories take shape. It’s great validation to see Director ranked at the top of this benchmark.”
In Physion ARC 1.0, each agent receives a full screenplay and then plans, creates, and assembles the video in a single continuous workflow. The evaluation looks at whether the finished video functions as a unified, coherent narrative.
The Anime test involved 100 prompts and 800 videos, reviewed by human judges across 19 criteria. It paired accuracy and consistency checks with side-by-side creative quality comparisons.
Director achieved:
● No. 1 overall, topping 11 of 19 metrics.
● No. 1 on all eight human-preference metrics, including emotional intent, composition, pacing, and motion quality.
● No. 1 in animetic language and production quality, two of the benchmark’s three quality categories.
Director’s top quality rating also brings a cost benefit. In Physion’s Anime comparison, OpenArt delivered the best overall quality at approximately 15% lower cost than the runner-up, Anime Agent 1.0, and 58% lower cost than third-ranked InVideo Agent One.
For anime creators, production budgets determine how much flexibility exists to explore concepts, refine work, and build out a narrative. These findings demonstrate a strong mix of quality and affordability within the tested scenarios.
OpenArt introduced Director in June, its groundbreaking product that enables anyone to produce a full, cinematic-quality video purely through conversation. With Director, users describe the mood, plot, characters, set designs, and pacing, and Director creates a finished video featuring synchronized visuals, voice, music, and sound. Director can generate up to five minutes of continuous footage, maintains consistent characters and style across every scene, and accommodates a wide range of formats and genres.
View the Physion Labs results here. Try OpenArt Director here.
About OpenArt
OpenArt is an AI creative platform utilized by millions of creators to bring their visual stories to life. Founded by ex-Google engineers and headquartered in San Francisco, OpenArt grew revenue 7x in 2025. In June 2026, OpenArt unveiled the game-changing Director, a revolutionary agentic tool that lets anyone create a complete, cinematic-quality video through conversation alone. The launch introduces a new creative era that the company is calling “Vibe Directing” – just as “vibe coding” changed how we build software, “Vibe Directing” is poised to do the same for video creation.
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