For my #EnvatoChallenge I made a social reel called People. Every stranger you pass is living a l...For my #EnvatoChallenge I made a social reel called People. Every stranger you pass is living a l...
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For my #EnvatoChallenge I made a social reel called People. Every stranger you pass is living a life as full and complicated as your own. You just never get to see it.
That was the whole starting point. You catch a half-second of someone and your brain files them as an extra in your movie, while they're the main character of theirs, with a whole thing going on you'll never know about.
So I tried to make something that sits in that feeling. No story line, but just a reminder that everyone's got one. I used Envato for music, images and videos starting with stock images that I got inspired by and used as references and to expand ideas from those. I believe the main human by design call I had to make was not only the final edit, but prompting for "imperfect" generations. AI is trained to give the perfect image every time, centered angles, equal proportions, bright colors. I tried the complete opposite while still trying to make it look like a complete social reel.
Job's avatar
You've done an amazing job.
Maty's avatar
That premise hits hard, the idea that every stranger has a full inner world we just never see. What made you land on a couch/window scene as the visual anchor for that idea?
MD Rafee 's avatar
Prompting for imperfect generations instead of the polished default is such a smart inversion, most people fight AI to get to that clean, symmetrical look. Fighting to get away from it is a much harder (and more interesting) problem.
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