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For the @Envato challenge, I’m excited to present my personal project: Plinky's Planet.
Designed for curious early learners, Plinky’s Planet is a vibrant animated space adventure. Through playful storytelling and colorful exploration, the series teaches toddlers about the planets, stars, and the beautiful cosmos we call home.
While AI and asset libraries are incredible for scaling production, human taste is what actually builds a world. Here is exactly how I put this together.
🧠 The "Human by Design" Moment
AI generated the raw pieces, but it took human editorial decisions to forge them into a cohesive narrative. The critical moment of human judgment really came down to post-production. The AI handed me raw video and audio, but out of the box, the pacing felt emotionally empty. I had to drop into Adobe Premiere Pro, override the AI's timing, and manually cut the footage to the beat using Envato transitions to force a cinematic rhythm that an algorithm just can't feel.
🛠️ The Envato Toolkit Workflow
Envato was the backbone for this entire IP, driving four distinct phases of the pipeline:
Pre-Production: I authored the foundational scripts to bring the characters to life, and engineered the necessary image and video prompts to facilitate a seamless production pipeline.
Production: Envato’s library served as my visual engine for mother frames and thumbnails. I was able to completely bypass heavy Photoshop masking by using Envato’s built-in background removal and AI upscaler to achieve commercial-grade graphics. From there, I fed motion prompts into the Envato Video Generator.
Post-Production: I used Envato AI SFX to generate toddler-friendly sound design, which I then mixed in Audition. To finalize the visual edit, I brought Envato transitions and karaoke lyric templates into Premiere Pro.
Launch: The final IP is now live across YouTube, Spotify (via DistroKid), and Plinky's Planet official website.
Check the full project in youtube:
Official Website:
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For the best viewing experience of the workflow breakdown, you can play the 16:9 version if you are on a computer, or the 9:16 version if you are on a mobile device.
Still uploading, will share them soon.
Tools Used: Envato Video Generator, Envato AISFX, Envato Upscaler, Envato Background Removal, Envato Templates (Transitions/Karaoke), Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, Adobe InDesign.
