"We think we're leaving. We're always heading home."

The dust behind a motorcycle on a dirt road is the same dust that drifts across Mars and maybe the same dust we're all made of.

I've never edited a video in my life. I build software for a living. But I found Renoise, saw this challenge, and as someone who can't resist one, I treated it the only way I knew how: as a problem to solve, shot by shot. 17 scenes, one storyboard, a lot of trial and error from a cornfield on Earth to the red plains of Mars.

I didn't know how to make a film. So I just kept asking: what does this feel like? And chased that frame by frame.

🔊 Sound on, and stay until the end it goes somewhere you won't expect. Check the comments for the BTS and the workflow :)

Preciso admitir que no meu nível de inglês, tô com dificuldade de entender acelerado em 2x.

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 @Yanush Zetea 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐢 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬. [𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧] 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). [𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰] For this submission, we developed: • Story Concept • Short film itself • Characters with FacePass from two universes • Scene Concepts • Transfered real location (my room) into AI scene • Website presentation (will be in the comments) • P.S. and even some backstage video to demonstrate our workflow ;) [𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞] 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. [𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬] 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.

Let's go broski! Great video! Love the backstage though