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THE SHADOW WENT HOME
A temple was saved from the water. Its horizon was not.
Inspired by David Roberts's 1848 watercolor The Temple at Dendur, Nubia from The Met Open Access collection. The Temple of Dendur was relocated from Nubia to New York to save it from rising waters caused by the Aswan High Dam. In this 42-second film, the stone remains inside The Met while its shadow slips through glass, crosses the water, and returns to the footprint it left beside the Nile.
The piece asks what preservation means when an object survives but its place cannot follow.
Original Met artwork:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/382200
Created in FLORA, with final pacing, compositing, sound design, and continuity work by NexusHub Studio.
wow....! these visuals look straight from the met gallery!! Lovely pick ups..!!
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Primary effect: Bring your own effect: "Echo" 🌊
invideo Editor timeline:https://invideo.io/share/ECHO-editable-timeline-n92j4troIbx
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🌑 Echo is a black screen where every sound sends a wave of light through the scene in real depth.
🎞️ Starting footage: one licensed stock clip of a temple corridor from invideo's stock library. The sound is original, synthesised for this piece. The voiceover is my own.
💬 What I asked for: a black screen where each ping lights the scene by distance, built from a depth map, with controls for each wave, afterglow, wave thickness, contour lines, outlines, colour and a final reveal.
🛠️ What was built: a depth map (Depth Anything Video), two "Echo" custom effects on the depth map (a Multiply layer for light and an Add layer for glow), an "Echo colour" effect on the footage, and keyframes for six waves and the reveal. The first build was done by Claude, connected to invideo Editor through invideo's MCP server.
🎚️ Refinement: I asked invideo's own agent (Agent Two Lite) in the editor to raise Afterglow from 0.14 to 0.3 on both Echo effects. It made the change on the timeline, and that conversation is shown in the video. I also tried a longer afterglow and a gold colour, both shown.
✅ All building and the final cut were done in invideo Editor.
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Built entirely in SVGator using glassmorphism (low opacity + blur) and synchronized timeline animation.
#svgatorchallenge #liquidglass #egyptdrop #halloween
liquid glass tags in svgator is a fun flex for the challenge
🍂 The Little Things We Leave Behind
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I wanted this film to feel like a traditional impressionist oil painting slowly coming to life. Every scene carries a little nostalgia, with a story told entirely through visuals and narration.
To bring it together, I used invideo Editor’s AI agent to add subtle, painterly transitions between scenes. Instead of manually adjusting every transition, I described the look I wanted and let the agent handle the editing, refining the result to preserve the artwork's texture and the story's gentle mood.
The goal was simple: make every scene flow naturally without taking attention away from the story.
Sometimes, the smallest things leave the biggest impressions. ✨
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I like the character design