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I’ve always believed that the best designers are, at their core, great storytellers.
While building my career in design and development for financial stability, I spent every "in-between" moment crafting my first feature-length script, "The Folds of Life." It was a labor of love written in the margins of a busy work life.
I never dreamed those 57 pages would travel the world. To date, the project has gained incredible momentum across the global circuit:
🇫🇷 Finalist at the Cannes World Film Festival
🇮🇹 Nominee at the Rome Prisma Film Awards
🇺🇸 Semi-Finalist at the Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Fest
🇸🇪 Semi-Finalist at the Sweden Film Awards
🏆 Award Winner at the Makizhmithran International Film Festival
🎖️ Honorable Mention at the RED Movie Awards
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Hey Contra Community!
Here is first challenge submission 🙌
I wanted to explore how a single creative workflow could turn a concept into a complete animated design story.
The project is built around three animal archetypes - Lion, Camel, and Horse - representing three different superpowers translated into fashion.
Inside Kittl, I experimented with typography design, t-shirt mockups, and style variations such as vintage, pop-art, and 90’s typography, before placing the designs into scenes and animating them.
The idea was to show how concept → typography → mockup → motion can exist in one visual workflow.
View the project here:
https://app.kittl.com/project/cmmltwibg5mr10i9rv27rikpr
Congrats on the first challenge submission! The idea of building a visual story around the animal archetypes is really cool.
As we enter the beginning of Spring, my submission for the Kittl Challenge brings a piece of Greek mythology to the modern screen.
The Concept: The myth says, by eating the pomegranate seeds, Persephone became tied to the Underworld. When she returns to the surface, spring comes, and when she descends, winter follows.
The Technique: This is a continuous cinematic loop with no cuts. I designed it this way to represent the unbreakable cycle of time. On social media, this format encourages repeat views as the end flows perfectly back into the start.
Visuals: Kittl
Design: Kittl
Post-Production: CapCut
Narrator Voice: ElevenLabs
Sound: Epidemic Sound
So good. Incredibly hard to achieve, this needs more love lol. Great work!
United by Vision. Born for the Frontier
For the #KittlChallenge, I created a cinematic concept trailer for a near-future sci-fi thriller, "NORTHERN PULSE."
The Lore: Set in 2045 after the EU and USA sign the Transarctic Pact, Greenland becomes the ultimate hub for deep-sea and space research. The world's brightest young minds are sent here to train, but they soon discover that the ocean holds secrets deeper than they ever imagined.
The Process: To achieve the "Polar-tech" aesthetic, I designed all visuals and typography in Kittl using AI Video and Text Masking. Final editing and sound design were done in CapCut for that blockbuster feel.
🔗 Kittl: https://app.kittl.com/project/cmmq8ce2t8fpy0i90q07twfhp
📱 Post & Walkthrough: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV3mpsHkvCT/
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