Epic Samurai Adventure: A Creative Cinematic Short ProjectEpic Samurai Adventure: A Creative Cinematic Short Project
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โ€ข 2h
๐…๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ @Yanush Zetea ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐๐ž๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐ฉ๐ข๐œ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ข ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐š๐๐ž ๐›๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ. [๐ƒ๐ข๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง] We wanted to create a short that feels like a serious cinematic legend, but is secretly built around something much more playful. We started with the idea of two different worlds: one epic, dramatic, full of tension and mystery - and another one cute, unexpected, and almost too powerful for its size. Every frame had to build curiosity, like the viewer is following something important, while the real idea stays hidden underneath. That contrast became the heart of the project: a huge story controlled by tiny baby bosses - Maxim and Yanush (so yeah, it's just ourselves). [๐Ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ฐ] For this submission, we developed: โ€ข Story Concept โ€ข Short film itself โ€ข Characters with FacePass from two universes โ€ข Scene Concepts โ€ข Transfered real location (my room) into AI scene โ€ข Website presentation (will be in the comments) โ€ข P.S. and even some backstage video to demonstrate our workflow ;) [๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐‘๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž] Renoise became our creative control room for the whole short. We used it to explore characters, scenes, moods, and story beats until the film started to feel like one connected universe. The Renoise Canvas using went pretty smooth, and it helped us to achieve the goal that was simple: make something visually cinematic, easy to follow, and original enough that the final feeling stays in your head after the video ends. Renoise FaceSwap - is a good feature to protect faces of a real people so we generated all content in canvas to got all assets approve. [๐“๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ] During creating the video we tried to make each of our prompt precisly good so it match how we visualised it in the mind. It was excited to see some concepts and close-ups in the viddeo that Renoise generated itself, so Seedance also played a huge role in the art direction lol.
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It was a pleasure to take part in this challenge I hope you like the result๐Ÿ™Œ
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โ€ข 2h
yes man, hope it works out hahaha
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