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🚀 I’m incredibly excited to be part of the Envato Challenge! As Abdullah Creates, I’ve put my creativity, passion, and vision into this ad-style video. This challenge is a great opportunity to showcase my skills, explore new ideas, and create something truly unique. Let’s see where creativity can take us! ✨🔥
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We've extended the $50K Envato Challenge!
Submit a video tutorial showing how you generated an asset in Envato and put it to use in your final project.
Submissions are now due by 7/26 at 11:59pm PT
Check out the full guidelines here to get started on your creation ✨
Human by Design.
Here's my design process video and the final design reveal.
For this challenge, I wanted to show that AI doesn't replace creativity,it expands what's possible.
I used Envato AI as my primary creative toolkit to explore ideas, generate a luxury fashion brand identity, create campaign visuals, source premium assets, and even animate parts of the campaign. Every AI-generated output became a starting point, not the final answer.
The real work happened through the creative decisions I made:
Generating and refining the logo concept with Envato GraphicsGen.
Sourcing premium visual assets from Envato Stock.
Refining the brand identity in Figma.
Selecting typography and a color palette that reflected timeless luxury.
Curating visuals that told a cohesive brand story.
Using Envato Video Gen and Figma Motion to bring the campaign to life.
This project is a reminder that while AI can generate endless possibilities, taste, intuition and creative direction remain uniquely human.
Thank you, @envato, for creating a challenge that celebrates not just what we create but the thinking and decisions behind the creative process.
#EnvatoChallenge #HumanByDesign
Candle & Crumb, "Some cakes come with dragons."
For this challenge, I made a 24-second ad for a bakery that doesn't exist. A completely ordinary family birthday, one small impossible guest, and nobody reacts. That's the product: some cakes come with dragons.
I'm a filmmaker, so I treated this as a directing job, not a generating job. One master frame was born first, and every shot inherited its DNA through start frames and references. The family went through three castings (the first felt sad, the second laughed like a stock photo). The tin went through three lives (a transparent one would have killed the reveal). The dragon was cast like an actor: one reference sheet, seven poses, every shot.
Human by Design moment: My first instinct was to make the dragon fly in and light the candles from the air. Halfway through, it stopped feeling right. A flying dragon is a spectacle, and this world doesn't do spectacle. So I made the opposite decision: the dragon stays in the tin, never stands up, and lights the candles lying down. The joke isn't a dragon that performs. It's a dragon that can't be bothered.
The Project Includes:
- The Film (24s ad)
- The Brand (Candle & Crumb wordmark, slogan, closing card)
- The Dragon (character reference sheet)
- The Workflow Video
Created entirely with Envato + AI.
Envato tools used: ImageGen, ImageEdit, VideoGen, SoundGen, Music, Sound Effects, Fonts
Thanks to Envato and Contra for introducing me to a toolkit I had somehow never touched. I had never used Envato before this challenge. Turns out that was my loss.
My Socials:
X: https://x.com/sarpstar/status/2078757967634080113
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Da-CGApIdf1/
@envato #envatochallenge #HumanByDesign
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