For this challenge, I'm excited to share this first glimpse at an AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) app, named after my own non-speaking son whose name just happens to have the letters "aac" in his name! You'll meet him in the first half of the video. The idea for a new AAC app that used animated characters to speak the words came to me during my first few weeks of learning Rive, and I'm so happy that this challenge has pushed me to make a considerable amount of progress and be able to show some of the features that set it apart, besides the fun interactive characters. The ability to quickly add and remove words, quick phrases, easy to read icons, and intuitive categories, are all part of the app experience, and the characters (starting with just a couple ready-made characters, but eventually a custom avatar builder) bring an element of fun to the otherwise purely functional world of AAC. When it's ready, I hope this app makes it easier and more fun for families, caregivers, and language-delayed people everywhere to communicate with each other. Thank you for watching this video!

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FIRST TIME ON GROUND — a fashion film shot across Egypt, except nobody went to Egypt.

The reference: a real brand film that took 7 days of shooting across the country. I reverse-engineered its edit down to the frame — one 4.5-second opening hold, cuts accelerating from 1s to 0.5s, a one-second strobe burst on the drop, then two seconds of stillness to close. That rhythm is why those films feel expensive.

Then I rebuilt the whole thing from zero:

• 14 scenes, directed from a full shotlist before generating a single frame • Keyframes in Nano Banana Pro — one locked style system (crimson-amber silhouettes + high-contrast B/W for negative flashes) • Motion in Seedance 2.0 — one decisive camera move per shot, the cutting rhythm lives in the timeline, not the prompt • Title cards generated too, projector flicker included, in a single multishot pass • Graded and cut in Premiere

Solo. Zero flights. The edit does 60% of the work — the footage does 40%.

This is the production model I bring to launch films and brand films: a real location shoot's craft, without the location. If you're launching something and want a film like this, Lets Talk!

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