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A music video for up-ad-coming artist Mixie. A high concept built around attitude, intimacy, and the restless energy of a night out. Shot with a mix of polished portraiture, extreme close-ups, handheld movement, and unconventional wide-angle perspectives, the piece moves between fashion imagery and something more immediate and lived-in. I directed and edited the film with an emphasis on rhythm, texture, and personality—creating a visual world that feels stylish without feeling overly constructed.
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I really like seeing designers step outside their usual lane and experiment like this. The first attempt already looks promising, and I think learning by actually shooting and grading is the fastest way to develop an eye for it. Looking forward to seeing how your style evolves.
A small experiment outside my usual design work.
I’ve recently started learning more about shooting and color grading video, so I did a little experiment 🧪 to practice with my *newly acquired* Osmo Pocket to explore how color can change the feeling of a simple scene.
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Started Ovum with painted specimen-egg illustrations and a wax-seal logo. Killed almost all of it.
Kept one hand-drawn wordmark and five colors, rebuilt the whole campaign in 35mm film — honey oil mid-pour, skin, candlelight. Same brand, completely different eyes.
This looks so high end, love how everything is tied together, how did you produce these films? They look super clean.
AcreamStudio App Launch Video🎉
The Challenge
Work can quickly become fragmented and overwhelming. Constant tasks, notifications, and context switching often leave users feeling mentally overloaded and out of control.
The video needed to communicate that tension in a short amount of time, while clearly demonstrating how the app supports task organization, work planning, and mental wellbeing.
Creative Direction
The film uses a 3D keyboard as a visual metaphor for work-related pressure.
At the beginning, keycaps bounce, pile up, and move in irregular rhythms to create a sense of chaos, tension, and information overload. The visual then shifts into app UI animations and feature demonstrations, using a calmer and more structured motion language to create a strong contrast.
This transition from disorder to clarity helps the audience feel the app’s value rather than simply being told about it.
Solution
Used bouncing, shifting, and densely paced keycap movements to visualize workplace pressure and information overload
Integrated app UI into 3D scenes and transitions, making feature demonstrations part of the story
Built an emotional progression from chaos to clarity through pacing, composition, and motion curves
Created sound design to strengthen the tactile quality of the keyboard, rhythmic tension, and UI feedback
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