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A cinematic brand commercial created using AI video generation, 3D animation, video editing, sound design, and visual storytelling. This project demonstrates character consistency, creative direction, commercial filmmaking, and AI-assisted production workflows for modern brands and businesses.
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AI gave ideas. Human judgment built the brand.
For the Human by Design Challenge, I created Cronut Café; a conceptual bakery brand, to explore how AI can speed up ideation without replacing creative direction.
I used Envato's ImageGen to generate early logo concepts, then relied on my own judgment to refine the logo, typography, colour palette, and visual identity in Adobe Illustrator. Once the brand direction felt right, I returned to Envato to create mockups, also using VideoGen to bring the identity to life through motion.
The biggest decision was knowing what to keep, what to change, and what to throw away.
That's the part of design that will never change 🚀
Thanks @Envato and @Contra for the challenge! 💚
The Cronut Café name and that latte art shot sell the concept before you even read the caption. Good call using ImageGen just for early concepts and pulling it into Illustrator once you had a direction, that workflow keeps the judgment where it should be.
AI can generate a lot. It can’t decide what actually works.
This is my Human by Design entry which is a full product promo teaser, built entirely with envato’s AI toolkit, split into 3 parts in one video:
The hook: setting up the problem before you even see the product.
The build; every prompt, edit, regenerate, and dead end (yes, including the ones that didn’t work)
The result is a final cut polished enough for a real client to post today.
The moment that mattered most: mid-shoot, the AI video generation got flagged and blocked outright. No amount of re-prompting fixed it. So I stepped in and redirected the entire visual direction myself the shots, the pacing, the story beat it was supposed to hit.
AI can execute. It can’t make that call.
That’s the difference this challenge is really asking about not what AI can produce, but where a human still has to step in and shape it.
Made with Envato’s Gen AI + stock tools.
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Congrats, top 15% is a solid milestone. Was there a specific stretch of work or a change in habits that pushed the score up, or has it been more of a slow steady climb from just staying consistent?