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Man, I’m exhausted.
I wished I came up with something innovative, crazy, and that could help humanity. But all I can think about right now is rest. I love my job, perhaps that’s the most exhausting part. I think everyone can relate to missing being a child with less responsibilities and more peace of mind, at least for a little while.
So for the Melius challenge under the theme 'Create something you wish existed,' I built exactly that: a narrative workflow about a fictional amulet that lets you instantly escape burnout to reconnect with your inner child in a peaceful, creature-filled world. I'm calling it 'The resonance stone'.
Workflow:
- Uploaded a story and visual assets to lock a 2D Alternative Manga identity with heavy ink outlines and risograph grain.
- Generated props and characters
- Tied Image-to-Video nodes together to turn the generated storyboards into animated scenes.
- USED MELIUS AGENT to run a master Video-to-Video refinement pass over the timeline to make the final result more smooth.
Feedback: The canvas structure makes managing multi-shot video continuity and keeping the elements locked together way easier than traditional linear prompting.
Walkthrough and final result attached below :)
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That's a wrap on the first Melius Challenge!
Huge shoutout to everyone who participated, liked, commented, shared, and scrolled through.
🙏 thank you
We are announcing the winners of the Melius Challenge LIVE right now 🏆
Tune in to find out who is taking home $10K in prizes.
Oooh very excited that Contra and Google Stitch just announced this challenge
One of the most interesting shifts happening in creative workflows right now is the move from static outputs to interactive systems.
Also… $10k prize pool.
Curious to see what people build 👀
brb gotta start working on my submission
This one will be legendary!!
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