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The World Within the Pages
Some stories are not just read—they are experienced.
For this project, I wanted to imagine what it would be like if a story literally came to life. Each page reveals a new fairytale world, where silk turns into blooming flowers, clouds become floating kingdoms, paper birds soar in golden skies, and imagination knows no bounds.
The entire film was created using @Envato ’s AI-powered creative workflow. I developed the visual concept, storyboard, cues, cinematography, scene transitions, animation sequences, music direction, and final editing. My goal was not just to create beautiful images, but to create a holistic cinematic experience where each scene flows naturally into the next.
I combined several AI tools to create surreal environments, dynamic camera movements, magical transformations, and emotional storytelling. Envato assets helped bring the final piece together with polished finishing touches that enhanced the cinematic atmosphere.
This project celebrates the idea that creativity begins on a single page, and that each story has the power to build an entire universe.
“Every ending is just the beginning of another story.”
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SONDER a fictional disposable film camera brand, built end to end.
I designed the product, the identity, the packaging and the campaign, then made a 68-second promo about the one thing film gives you that your phone can't: you can't check the shot. You just have to be there.
Envato is the entire film. The character and the camera were generated with Envato AI. The Los Angeles she moves through the crowds, the light, the beach, the night market is Envato stock. The type is Envato. The grain and textures are Envato.
The decisions that mattered were the ones the model kept fighting me on. I put her in a shirt and tie at the beach no model would ever do that, it's "wrong," and the wrongness is exactly why you can't look away. I made her never once look at the camera she's holding, because the absence of that action is the whole argument of the film, and a model can't understand that not doing something is the meaning. And I forced the flash ugly flat, harsh, unflattering because that's what film flash actually looks like, and every generation wanted to make it beautiful.
Machines optimise toward correct. I kept choosing wrong on purpose.
Walkthrough video coming shortly.
#envatochallenge @envato
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For this challenge, I built Hydrated: a fictional summer soft drink — carbonated, ice-cold, citrus-sharp — with a visual identity built entirely around temperature. The can runs a gradient from pale ice to deep navy, top to bottom, so the design itself feels like it's getting colder the longer you look at it. Tagline: "Stay Cool. Be Cool."
Using Envato as my toolkit, I sourced the typefaces, built the can label in Affinity Designer, and composited it onto a photorealistic mockup in Photoshop. I then used Envato's AI Video Generator — with a custom Start Frame and End Frame built from my own can mockups — to generate the hero shot: the can dropping into an ice bucket, splashing, sinking, and settling cold. Claude helped draft the ingredient list and nutrition copy, and I built a companion landing page in HTML/CSS so the brand exists somewhere real, not just in a video.
Target audience: Teens and young adults, roughly 10–28 — people who live for summer and want a drink that matches the mood: crisp, cold, a little bit of attitude.
Human by Design moment: The AI video. The first generation rotated the can in a way that mangled the label, and it took several rejected takes before one actually held up. Deciding which take was right, and which word was right, was human work from start to finish.
Thank you to Envato and Contra for putting this challenge together — for the toolkit, and for the push to make something real out of an idea instead of just thinking about it.
Stay cool. Be cool.
The Project Includes:
- The Logo
- The Can Design
- The Video
- The Website
- The BTS Video
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For the #envatochallenge, I created AMARÉLLA using Envato Elements as my master toolkit. Here is how my human choices elevated the AI:
- The Logo: I used Envato Fonts for inspiration, then customized the letters with organic, leaf-like curves over a raw circular stamp to give it a human touch.
- The Packaging: The first flat box dieline had messy, clashing text. I redesigned it by adding clean panel lines, turning the product name sideways, and adding pretty plant drawings at the base for perfect balance.
- The Bottles: I rejected plastic and designed a heavy, custom stone-and-clay flask.
- The Videos: I used our Envato model photo as a reference and directed the AI to generate raw, slow-motion, black-and-white clips. Keeping the bottle quietly in the background allowed us to capture real, honest human emotion without issues.
- The Sound: I tied it all together with a warm, minimalist acoustic track from Envato Music.
- Toolkit: @envato Elements (Fonts, Stock Images, Music, Image Gen, Image Edit, and VideoGen)
Secondary Tools: Canva
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