A Pixar animated explainer video created for BackstagePass to show how creators can connect their content with their fans in a more engaging way.
I worked on the full video from scene development to final delivery including character design and consistency, Pixar-style environments, AI animation, visual storytelling, transitions, pacing and final editing.
The project runs for over 6 minutes with multiple locations, character interactions and product-focused scenes while maintaining the same visual world throughout.
Reposting this because the craft reasoning is worth studying more than the sci-fi concept itself: choosing film grain, rust, and dust over a clean CGI look is the exact same principle real cinematographers use to make VFX-heavy scenes feel tangible. Pulling that off in a single unbroken shot using AI tooling (Seedance 2.5 in CapCut) is a genuinely different level of intentionality than most AI-generated shorts settle for.
What I built:
"Portal Protocol" It is a 30-second sci-fi short film. I made it as one single shot with no cuts using Seedance 2.5 in CapCut Video Studio. A teenage boy finds a glowing arcade machine, gets pulled into an alien jungle, where he must find the courage to face...