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"What If Beauty Replaced Destruction? — My submission for the Melius Challenge. Two cinematic jewelry concepts built in one afternoon.
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For a new Contra challenge, I experimented with Melius, a new agentic, node-based app. Using the Storyboard Director metaprompt as a starting point, I created a short microdrama story.
Take a look at the final video and screen recording walkthrough!
Link to the project: https://app.melius.com/projects/97211597-0d55-4cbf-a5ea-2ff960099bbb/canvas/6b1eb2ef-8588-4500-bc91-2c2d7347fdc7
Thank you, Melius, for the credits and for the challenge! It was a fun one 🖤
I created MINDGUESS AI around a concept I found genuinely fascinating:
“What if an AI could understand what you’re thinking only through small hints and patterns?”
The idea behind the project was to design an AI experience where users give subtle clues about a character, object, animal, or personality, and the AI intelligently predicts what they are thinking about. I wanted the interaction to feel immersive and futuristic, almost like communicating with a digital mind capable of intuition and reasoning.
Instead of building a typical chatbot interface, I focused on creating a cinematic sci-fi experience that visually represents intelligence, prediction, and human-AI connection. Every element on the page, from the glowing holographic UI to the neon atmosphere and live statistics panels, was designed to make users feel like they are interacting with an advanced AI entity rather than a simple guessing game.
The purpose of MINDGUESS AI is not just entertainment, but to explore how AI can interpret human hints, behavior, and decision patterns in an engaging and visually immersive way.
Steps I used for the project:
I designed the complete landing page and futuristic user experience inside Melius, focusing on cyberpunk-inspired visuals, cinematic lighting, holographic interface elements, and immersive composition. I refined multiple prompt variations to achieve the perfect balance between realism, futuristic aesthetics, and interactive storytelling. The entire concept was built around making the AI feel intelligent, mysterious, and alive.
Feedback on my experience using Melius:
Melius made the creative process feel very fluid and experimental, especially while testing different futuristic concepts and visual directions. What I enjoyed most was the ability to iterate quickly and push cinematic design ideas without losing quality. One of the more challenging parts was balancing strong visual effects while still keeping the interface readable and functional, but overall the experience was smooth, inspiring, and highly creative from start to finish.
-= Melius Time Machine =-
In the year 8080, a young man lives in a perfect futuristic world filled with neon towers, holograms, and advanced technology. Yet behind all that progress, his life feels empty and repetitive. One night, a holographic advertisement appears in his apartment: “Melius Time Machine — Choose Any Era.” Curiosity pulls him out of his boredom, and he decides to visit the mysterious time machine facility.
At the Melius Time Machine facility, he discovers a realistic elevator-shaped time machine made of glass, metal, blue light rings, and advanced control panels. Inside the elevator, he sees multiple era options: past decades, future destinations, the Dinosaur Era, and Mars Colony. After a moment of hesitation, he presses “Dinosaur Era.” The machine activates, energy builds, and his first journey through time begins.
The elevator doors open into a vast prehistoric world filled with giant forests, waterfalls, flying pterosaurs, and dinosaurs moving across the valley. He is amazed at first, but wonder quickly turns into fear when a predator appears and roars in the distance. He rushes back into the elevator and chooses a new destination: Mars Colony. In an instant, the machine jumps forward again, opening onto a red-orange Martian landscape filled with domes, towers, rovers, drifting dust, and Earth visible in the sky. What began as boredom becomes a journey of awe, fear, and inspiration.
Project link: https://app.melius.com/projects/2e122519-ebfe-4372-90e1-94ada36834fc/canvas/d354c16e-c5e6-4663-8e54-5f0d27ca61c7
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this is so cool wow
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