Anu Anuja's Work | ContraWork by Anu AnujaAnu Anuja
AI Creator | Skyrise AI Ad Agency Founder
Here's my 2nd entry for The invideo Editor Challenge.
Built a cinematic 3D forest reveal using invideo Editor's AI editing agents. πΏπ¬
I wanted to create something that felt like an After Effects-style motion graphics sequence, with immersive camera movements, layered rainforest environments, foliage reveals, and a cinematic journey from a dense forest to a golden sunset.
The most surprising part? I started with just my character profile sheet and a creative brief.
The agent helped develop the storyboard, generate the visual assets, create the video clips, and assemble the sequence directly inside the editor. I guided the creative direction, reviewed the generated assets, and refined the result through conversations with the agent.
What would normally require significant asset preparation, compositing, and animation work became a completely different creative workflow.
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#invideocontrachallenge #invideoeditor #AIVideo #MotionGraphics Here's my first submission for The invideo Editor Challenge.
Three effects. One fast-paced, cinematic racing edit.
π Rectangle Reveal: A small rectangle expands to reveal full-color racing footage from a black-and-white frame.
π¨ Black & White to Color: A dramatic monochrome-to-color transformation that brings the racing action to life.
ποΈ Helmet Silhouette: Racing footage plays inside a driver's helmet silhouette, creating a cinematic double-exposure effect.
β‘ Plus, fast-paced cuts, matching-location transitions, and sound design to bring everything together.
The coolest part? I started with just a creative brief. InVideo Agent helped generate the storyboard, visuals, video clips, and sound effects, then assembled the edit directly on the timeline. I could review the assets, guide the creative direction, and ask the agent to make changes. Less manual editing. More time to focus on the creative idea. SHUO is an original mascot created for "House of Stories", a fictional storytelling brand dedicated to preserving memories, imagination, and human connection through stories.
Inspired by the wisdom traditionally associated with Chinese dragons, Shuo reimagines that symbolism as a warm, approachable Story Keeper who travels from village to village collecting stories instead of treasures. Every conversation, memory, and adventure becomes part of the ever-growing House of Stories.
Rather than designing only a mascot, I built a complete visual identity system around Shuo, ensuring the character remains instantly recognizable across multiple styles and touchpoints. From a custom bilingual wordmark, brand colors, and character system to merchandise, stickers, posters, social media, 3D interpretations, cinematic concepts, and animation, every application was designed to feel like it belongs to the same world.
This project explores how a single mascot can become the heart of a fictional brand through consistent design, storytelling, and scalable visual identity.
π Character Brief
Name: SHUO (θ―΄)
Role: The Story Keeper
Personality: Wise, curious, gentle, patient, humble, and endlessly imaginative.
Shuo believes every person carries a story worth remembering. Instead of searching for treasure, he travels the world collecting forgotten memories, inspiring people to share their experiences, and reminding us that stories are what connect generations.
Here's the recraft project link: https://www.recraft.ai/project/e04336d7-5491-480d-a8dc-da61ce02bcaf
For me, this project wasn't about creating another mascot. It was about creating a character people would want to follow. A character who could tell stories on social media today, appear in an animated short tomorrow, and one day become the hero of a feature film all while remaining unmistakably Shuo. It starts like the childhood story of a young footballer and his loyal dog chasing an impossible dream... but there's a twist at the end. β½πΆπ¬
I created this cinematic style video using Renoise for video generation and image generation. One feature I really appreciated in Renoise was its "Facepass" which reviews images for my fictional child character, this made it possible to move forward with the project after the content was evaluated instead of stopping the creative process outright.π
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