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Benito Almanza

Benito Almanza

Creative Technologist | AI Film & Immersive Visual Design

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VELLARE explores fashion as a form of cinematic worldbuilding, where the garment becomes the foundation for an evolving visual narrative. The sequence follows a model descending into a surreal garden before moving through monumental architecture, intimate fashion portraiture, and an underwater environment. The project focused heavily on visual continuity — maintaining the model, garment, environment, lighting, material detail, and overall photographic language across dramatically different compositions and camera perspectives. Developed through a combination of creative direction, AI image generation, character and garment reference development, environment design, and AI-driven motion. Creative Direction • AI Visual Development • Fashion Visualization • Cinematic Worldbuilding • AI Film
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After the Strike — Shatter Gown (motion) / A3VMD Studio A moving study from an in-progress 20-look AI fashion collection. A gown built from cascading mirror shards, moving through a shattered hall — every fragment catching and throwing light as she walks. Static, it's texture; in motion, the destruction comes alive. Part of Act I: Destruction, the opening of a three-act arc from wreckage to regrowth. AI-generated and hand-finished to a photoreal, motion-ready standard — the workflow I bring to fashion film and brand commissions. Open for collaboration. #AIFilmmaker
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Cover image for After the Strike — Shatter
After the Strike — Shatter Gown (motion) / A3VMD Studio A moving study from an in-progress 20-look AI fashion collection. A gown built from cascading mirror shards, moving through a shattered hall — every fragment catching and throwing light as she walks. Static, it's texture; in motion, the destruction comes alive. Part of Act I: Destruction, the opening of a three-act arc from wreckage to regrowth. AI-generated and hand-finished to a photoreal, motion-ready standard — the workflow I bring to fashion film and brand commissions. Open for collaboration. #AIFilmmaker
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After the Strike / A3VMD Studio A moving study from an in-progress 20-look AI fashion collection. A bouclé-and-tweed jacket unraveling in real time — hair fibers tangling out of the weave, tailoring coming apart. The opening of a three-act arc from destruction to regrowth. AI-generated and hand-finished to a photoreal, motion-ready standard — the workflow I bring to fashion film and brand commissions. Open for collaboration. #AIFilmmaker
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