Limen is my first single. This is the workflow video for its music video.

The entire visual world was generated inside Envato — portraits, organic textures, water. I worked in a single locked palette pulled from the cover art, and generated dozens of variations of every element until the material felt right rather than merely impressive.

My Human by Design moment: the film turns on one image — a root that snaps. AI produced dozens of versions of that break. Every one of them was technically clean. But the break isn't a visual effect, it's the meaning of the piece: the thing that holds you up is the same thing that holds you down, and cutting it costs something. So the decision was never which render looks best — it was at which exact second does it break. I placed it at 2:57, on the one bar where the drums drop out entirely. AI had no way to know that bar mattered.

Workflow: I separated the track into stems and built an expression-driven control rig in After Effects, so every visual parameter is read from the music itself — no keyframes on the reactive layers. Cut points are locked to the measured beat grid (130.085 BPM), and the colour grade follows the stem energy: cold and desaturated at the breakdown, warm and contrasted at the peaks.

Envato became my toolkit. The judgment stayed human.

🎧 Limen — out now.