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Long-form wine travel feature on Liguria, combining genetic research on native grape varieties with producer storytelling, researched and written for Enoteca Di Somma's website.
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For the #envatochallenge, I created AMARÉLLA using Envato Elements as my master toolkit. Here is how my human choices elevated the AI:
- The Logo: I used Envato Fonts for inspiration, then customized the letters with organic, leaf-like curves over a raw circular stamp to give it a human touch.
- The Packaging: The first flat box dieline had messy, clashing text. I redesigned it by adding clean panel lines, turning the product name sideways, and adding pretty plant drawings at the base for perfect balance.
- The Bottles: I rejected plastic and designed a heavy, custom stone-and-clay flask.
- The Videos: I used our Envato model photo as a reference and directed the AI to generate raw, slow-motion, black-and-white clips. Keeping the bottle quietly in the background allowed us to capture real, honest human emotion without issues.
- The Sound: I tied it all together with a warm, minimalist acoustic track from Envato Music.
- Toolkit: @envato Elements (Fonts, Stock Images, Music, Image Gen, Image Edit, and VideoGen)
Secondary Tools: Canva
My workflow
Andalusia — Travel Storytelling Website
We've been exploring a more immersive way to tell travel stories through the web.
Curious to hear what you think.
Project Title: Kafka’s Metamorphosis: A "Human by Design" Cinematic Adaptation
Project Description:
For this challenge, I wanted to push the boundaries of visual storytelling by adapting Franz Kafka’s iconic masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. The goal was to transform a heavy literary theme—existential dread, alienation, and sudden transformation—into a tight, atmospheric 30-second cinematic piece.
While AI tools provided the raw building blocks, my human artistic direction, taste, and curation were the ultimate forces that shaped the final outcome.
The "Human by Design" Crucial Decisions:
Visual Aesthetic & Lighting: Instead of accepting generic AI interiors, I rejected multiple outputs until I engineered a precise prompt that captured a decaying, claustrophobic bedroom utilizing German Expressionism and dramatic Chiaroscuro lighting.
The Climax Composition: The final shot at the frosted glass door was a deliberate creative choice to visually represent the painful psychological boundary between Gregor Samsa and the human world outside.
Sound Scaffolding: I manually layered and timed the audio assets. I blended a low-frequency dark ambient soundtrack with specific insect crawling and chitin scratching sound effects precisely timed to match the movement of the shadows, creating an unsettling audio-visual harmony that AI cannot replicate autonomously.
Envato Toolkit Used:
Gen AI (Photos & VideoGen): Crafted the core visual assets and animated them with subtle, haunting camera movements to bring the volumetric light rays to life.
Gen AI (Voice Over): Generated a deep, somber, and haunting narrative voice to deliver Kafka's opening lines with the right dramatic pauses.
Audio & Sound Effects: Sourced high-quality dark ambience and macro insect sound effects to build the psychological tension.
Please watch the workflow walkthrough video attached to see how these elements were curated and brought together!
Instagram Submission Link:https://www.instagram.com/p/Da1XJ7VCnzC/?img_index=2
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