Project: HOME · A Windrush Story

HOME: A Windrush Story is a stop-motion short about the Windrush generation, the Caribbean migrants invited to help rebuild Britain after WW2. My grandparents were two of those passengers, sailing from Jamaica in the 1950s. Built in Melius in an Aardman / Wallace & Gromit claymation aesthetic, scored with Mento, the Jamaican folk music that became the root of ska and reggae and would have been their musical mother tongue. The same recruitment poster appears in Kingston, in a 1960s London terrace, and behind the grandson's hand in 2026. One prop, three generations.

Process: 10 video beats + 5 letterpress title cards, built in Melius with Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.0, Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 2 High. Aardman claymation aesthetic. Recruitment poster wired as image-edge across every beat, so it appears identical in every era. One prop, three generations. Final stitch and soundtrack splice done in FFmpeg.

Melius feedback: Image-edge wiring for motif consistency is the killer feature. Mixed-provider model support in one canvas was a workflow win. Two friction points: text in the video degrades when the camera moves, so anything with readable signage needs a locked-camera prompt. And the stitch node only takes video, so title cards had to be stitched externally.