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THE ART OF CREATIVITY ✨
Experimenting. Exploring. Not knowing exactly what the outcome will be. PLAYING.
I started with paper: arranging, breaking it apart, and creating compositions. In that imperfect, analog process through randomness, mistakes, and trying again – something emerged.
Something real.
Fragile.
Human.
Once I had a feeling for where the journey was going, I could translate that feeling into words and create images for the book with Envato that carried the same emotion.
I was also able to quickly create mockups that gave me a vision of the final product.
And then I turned it into a small spot for the poetry book: inspired by memories of my grandfather reading poems to us when we were younger, and the emotions those moments created.
A personal idea, brought to life in a short amount of time with the help of the right tools.
That’s what Human by Design means to me: Humans decide what stays, what disappears, and what feels right.
It’s our curiosity.
Our experimentation.
Our need to play. 🤍
🎨 Tools: Envato ImageGen, VideoGen, MusicGen, VoiceGen, MockUpGen, Graphics, Effects
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Envato gave me hero images, background texture, and animated video. But none of it works on its own. Someone still has to make the calls.
Human by Design: AI got me fast raw material. Making it feel like this bar took real decisions - recoloring and chroma-keying a stock video before animating, chasing a grimy texture over a clean AI render, picking one generated scene out of several for its energy - then building the composition and type myself.
Toolkit: @Envato Elements, Envato AI, After Effects, Illustrator.
this is awesome dina!! love the designs
My entry for the Envato × Contra Human by Design challenge.
AI has changed the game and made almost anything possible. But just because you can make anything doesn’t mean you always know what to make.
For this one, I took one simple piece of Envato’s identity, the logo, and pushed it as far as I could with one goal: make a pretty sick ad.
From there, it was a lot of experimenting, prompting, failing, refining, and eventually bringing all those ideas to life using Envato’s AI tools.
The result is my take on Human by Design. AI can give us endless possibilities, but someone still has to come up with the idea and decide where to take it.
100% created using Envato’s AI features.
This is my submission, EditorialGen. I created
a fictive Envato AI tool that focuses on the concept of Human by Design to turn
your plain photos into editorial-worth artwork. EditorialGen was born through the
fusion of ImageGen and VideoGen, two tools that I use daily on all sorts of
projects, both for the projects of my clients and my own. This tool allows you
to implement your human judgment at each step of the process in order to
achieve art that is truly HUMAN and shares your identity and talent. Made with
the assistance of the most specific features for your editorial photography.
Please watch till the end. And also watch the video of my creative process. You
will LAUGH and maybe learn something.
Don’t forget to hit that upgoat button! 🐐
I want to thank Contra and Envato, and everybody who participates in this
challenge. And I am grateful for extending the duration of the challenge. I
needed all the extra time, as you can tell by my late submission.
Enjoy and good luck to all participants!
Best,
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