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Take a look at this work. Very impressive. It took me back to the history and let me walk through it.
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...
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We've extended the $50K Envato Challenge!
Submit a video tutorial showing how you generated an asset in Envato and put it to use in your final project.
Submissions are now due by 7/26 at 11:59pm PT
Check out the full guidelines here to get started on your creation ✨
This submission was made with a little bit of pure, mindless vandalism against AI.
I wanted a killer website for my brand, Discern Like a Rebel. So I fed Claude with Envato assets (fonts, textures, illustrations, sound, templates, generations...) and asked it to build. It did. But it was all clean grids and neat boxes.
So, to make it more me, I let the drawings spill over the nav bar and loosened the grid up. Even than, the generator kept sliding back to safe, when it refused to animate a nude Greek statue (only once though). But rebels fight haha.
The big step was to bring it to life with looping animations, paper tears, and hand-drawn lines (all using Envato's library).
A pro designer would have moved the drawing in seconds. I spent my time changing AI's mind instead, since I am not one yet. Funny enough, that friction became the creative process. AI can follow a rule beautifully. It can't feel when breaking one makes something come alive.
I must say, very on par with my brand's philosophy.
P.S. This is a re-upload because the sound quality on the first attempt was awful. Enjoy much better audio this time around!
The idea of using AI while keeping a deliberately rebellious, imperfect brand voice is a fun tension. Which Envato asset pushed the Discern Like a Rebel site in the most unexpected direction?
Circlo Gets You Out — Envato "Human by Design" Challenge
For Envato's Human by Design challenge, I made a promo film for
Circle — a safety-first event discovery app I designed for young
professionals in Indian Tier-1 cities.
THE FILM
Circlo, Circle's mascot, is done watching you scroll. He drags
you off the couch, down a glowing purple street, and into a
rooftop full of real people. No dialogue. No UI walkthrough.
Just a character making his case.
THE TOOLKIT
Every shot ran through Envato's AI stack: VideoGen for every
Circlo scene (image-to-video, character-referenced throughout),
MusicGen for the score, SoundGen for footsteps and ambience,
GraphicsGen for the closing card, and Devices Mockup for the
in-app screens.
THE HUMAN BY DESIGN MOMENT
Twice, I asked AI to touch my actual product screens — once
through a mockup tool, once through video generation. Both times
it quietly rewrote the text. "Safe Tribe" became "Sefo Tribe."
A clean screen came back with duplicated, ghosted copy layered
over itself.
Neither time did I try to prompt my way out of it. I pulled my
real screens back out, composited them by hand, frame by frame,
and kept AI exactly where it belongs in this project: building
the world around the product, never rewriting the product itself.
That's the line the whole film is built on. AI made the street,
the light, the sound. I made the app. I made the character's
face match itself in every single shot — checking ears, eyes,
and color against the original reference every time the model
drifted.
Built in 2 day for Envato's Human by Design challenge.
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