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The Smart Shoulder Drone for Motorcycle Passengers
After over 100,000 kilometers traveling as a passenger on a heavy Harley-Davidson, I desperately wanted a way to capture the journey without sacrificing safety or the sheer joy of the ride. Holding a phone or a heavy camera at highway speeds is dangerous and exhausting.
It’s a compact, magnetic shoulder-mounted drone controlled by a smart leather glove with an embedded micro-OLED screen.
My Melius Workflow:
I utilized the Melius agent not just to prompt, but to architect a complete production studio on the canvas.
Stage 1: Hardware Lock (The Source of Truth). I briefed the agent to generate studio-quality master shots of the drone and the smart glove. I then instructed the agent to hard-wire these specific nodes as global visual references (Image-to-Image/ControlNet) for the rest of the canvas to prevent the model from hallucinating new designs.
Stage 2: Storyboarding. The agent built a storyboard branch, placing the locked product designs into realistic environments (highway, golden hour) using precise text nodes to establish the narrative.
Stage 3 & 4: Commercial & UGC Video Pipelines. I tasked the agent to build complex Image-to-Video branches. For the promo video, the agent generated sequential keyframes (First, Mid, Last) showing UI interactions and mechanical sliding, which were then routed into video nodes. For the UGC branch, the agent completely shifted the aesthetic to raw, vertical smartphone footage while maintaining the exact hardware design.
Stage 5: Assembly. Text nodes were used as a director's script on the canvas to dictate the exact sound design and features (USPs) being highlighted before final video generation.
Feedback:
As a UI/UX designer, the node-based canvas feels incredibly intuitive. Generative AI usually feels like a chaotic slot machine, but Melius turns it into a structured, production-ready pipeline. The ability to converse with the agent, ask it to build branches based on specific logic, and literally see the "wires" connecting a master reference to a final video output gives an unprecedented level of creative control. It allowed me to act as an Art Director rather than just a prompt engineer.
Project flow: https://app.melius.com/projects/b3edd6cc-ec50-49fa-b861-80fbe443ef97/canvas/2aefaa54-3d08-4265-b21b-83233c694be2
X Post: https://x.com/KrisAnfalova/status/2056718110682489214?s=20
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THE LAST NODE — A Complete AI-Generated Graphic Novel
Built entirely on Melius
What I Built:
365 nodes on one Melius canvas
20 story pages across 5 chapters
57+ individually generated panels
3 full-page cinematic splash panels
Complete front and back cover
Character sheets, environment sheets, prop sheets — all locked for consistency
How I Built It:
I used Melius chat to automatically generate the node structure from my story idea. Then I wired character reference nodes, environment reference nodes, and prop nodes into every single image generation node — so Kael's face, his red jacket, and Cipher's green LED stayed consistent across all 57 panels. Every page runs through its own chain: prompt node → Nano Banana Pro art generation → overlay → assembly. All nodes ran without a single crash or freeze.
Read the full graphic novel:
🔗 https://melius.isumenuka.me/
Explore the full Melius canvas:
🔗 https://app.melius.com/projects/34dbc88b-ddef-411b-98f4-3a63f19527dc/canvas/1aca8142-094c-4e8c-8bfd-55a5911bf83a
Demo video and workflow screenshots attached above.
Great work! 🔥 Congrats
PROJECT NAME
AION PYR — The Aitherioi
CONCEPT / PROJECT DESCRIPTION
AION PYR is a one-minute instrumental progressive-rock film by The Aitherioi, a fictional trio of pale pre-terrestrial beings older than Earth.
They were here when the planet was born from heat, basalt, and lava, and they remain calm as that world dissolves into stardust. The film follows them performing inside a collapsing volcanic cathedral while lava, steam, lightning, and stone slowly give way to void.
The music is built only from guitar, bass, and drums: slow, heavy, repetitive, bass-led, and cathartic.
PROCESS
I started by defining The Aitherioi: a fictional pre-terrestrial trio with a shared visual identity, pale ethereal bodies, severe faces, long dark hair, and calm expressions.
Then I built the visual system around contrast: fossil-dark basalt, living lava, white steam, lightning, and their stillness inside collapse.
I created character assets, face studies, wardrobe references, instrument references, environment plates, keyframes, and individual video scenes.
The music was built first as a strict one-minute instrumental progressive-rock track using only guitar, bass, and drums. The video was then structured to follow the track: bass opening, wide trio, basalt corridor, guitar catharsis, drummer pulse, matter dissolution, and final void.
Finally, I stitched the scenes together with clean cuts so the film follows the music without extra transitions or title cards.
FEEDBACK ON BUILDING WITH MELIUS
Melius worked best as a production canvas rather than a single-prompt generator.
The node-based workflow made it possible to build the project in layers: character identity, environments, audio, keyframes, video clips, and final assembly. That helped keep the concept coherent while still allowing corrections when individual shots needed refinement.
The biggest challenge was visual continuity, especially keeping The Aitherioi consistent across scenes. The most useful approach was creating strict reference assets first, then using them as anchors for keyframes and video generation.
This is raw power, like it so much!
What if Baby’s Day Out had four paws, zero fear, and absolutely no survival instinct?
For the Melius Challenge, I created PUPPY’S DAY OUT: a 60-second animated short about Biscuit, a tiny puppy who escapes through the most obvious loophole ever and somehow turns one innocent morning into a full slapstick adventure.
I used Mel as the production brain for the project. Mel helped me break the idea down into reusable characters, scene-by-scene key frames, motion prompts, audio direction, and continuity across the full short. Instead of treating each video clip as a standalone generation, I used Mel to structure the project like a mini-production pipeline: character references first, then key frames, then motion, then scene transitions, then the final title card. It was fun seeing how a simple comedy idea could become a full mini-film
My feedback: the strongest part of Melius is how it helps creators think beyond one-off prompting. The node-based workflow makes it easier to plan, connect, and control a full story. For future improvements, I’d love even stronger continuity control between frames, especially for fast comedy sequences where character poses, props, and timing need to stay very precise.
Nobody suspected a thing. 🐾
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https://x.com/NewMindReaper/status/2056402228609466620?s=20
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