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From idea to final frame.
For the Envato × Contra Human by Design challenge, I explored how human creativity and AI can work together.
The first image shows the creative process—experimenting with prompts, refining generations, and building the story inside CapCut.
The second image is one of the final scenes from the finished film.
My biggest Human by Design moment wasn't fixing an AI mistake.
It was changing the narrative.
Instead of treating the Envato logo as Earth, I imagined it as a naturally formed planet—a civilization built on creativity.
Created with Envato AI and finished in CapCut.
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My entry for the Envato × Contra Human by Design challenge.
AI has changed the game and made almost anything possible. But just because you can make anything doesn’t mean you always know what to make.
For this one, I took one simple piece of Envato’s identity, the logo, and pushed it as far as I could with one goal: make a pretty sick ad.
From there, it was a lot of experimenting, prompting, failing, refining, and eventually bringing all those ideas to life using Envato’s AI tools.
The result is my take on Human by Design. AI can give us endless possibilities, but someone still has to come up with the idea and decide where to take it.
100% created using Envato’s AI features.
Human By Design
Every masterpiece begins with a single idea.
From the first architectural sketches of ancient civilizations to the iconic structures of the modern world, humanity has always transformed imagination into reality.
Human By Design explores this journey through the evolution of a simple pencil stroke.
A single line becomes a geometric idea.
The idea becomes a blueprint.
The blueprint becomes architecture.
And architecture becomes the future.
Using AI as a creative tool, I explored how human vision and technology can work together to transform concepts into cinematic experiences. Each chapter represents a different expression of human creativity — knowledge, harmony, beauty, ambition, innovation, and the possibilities of tomorrow.
The final future city represents the next chapter of design: a world where creativity, technology, and humanity continue to evolve together.
Human By Design is a tribute to the imagination that turns simple ideas into extraordinary realities.
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Guoshuai Zhang
This is absolutely stunning. I really love how you turned a single pencil stroke into the evolution of human civilization. The storytelling, pacing, and visual transitions all feel incredibly cinematic. Beautiful work!
Apocrypha: Human by Design
For the EnvatoChallenge, I wanted to explore a different relationship between AI and creativity.
I created Apocrypha, a collectible card universe where every artifact begins as an AI-assisted concept but only becomes part of the archive through human taste, creative direction, and design.
Instead of asking AI to create finished pieces, I used Envato as the main creative toolkit throughout the entire project. I explored its stock image and video library to build moodboards, collect textures, study compositions, and define the visual language of the world. I also used Envato AI to generate concepts for characters, artifacts, and environments, then refined, combined, and reworked them into a cohesive universe. Some of the concepts were even manually painted over to push them beyond the original AI output.
Alongside the cards, I designed ArchiveOS, a living creative bible where I organize collections, lore, references, prompts, and every creative decision behind the project. It became the place where the entire world of Apocrypha could grow consistently.
The biggest creative decision wasn't generating images. It was deciding what deserved to exist. Knowing when an idea felt wrong, when an artwork needed more work, when a concept should evolve, or when it should be discarded completely. AI gave me possibilities, but every final artifact exists because of human judgment.
I'd love to hear what you think about this approach to AI-assisted worldbuilding.
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