An experimental AI-driven film created using Hailou in February 2025. The project explores the bo...An experimental AI-driven film created using Hailou in February 2025. The project explores the bo...
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An experimental AI-driven film created using Hailou in February 2025.
The project explores the boundaries between machine-generated imagery and cinematic language, focusing on atmosphere, rhythm, and abstraction rather than traditional narrative.
The film was selected as a Semi-Finalist at OMNI: International AI Film Festival, Sydney (October 2025), with a jury led by George Miller (Mad Max), highlighting its relevance within the evolving landscape of AI cinema.
What happens when you take a hero frame from an AI-generated video and push it back into an image edit model?
This weekend I took a still from a recent Seedance 2.5 piece I made —depicting a solo mountaineer in a harsh alpine environment — and ran it through Midjourney's new v8.2 edit model to see how far I could iterate on a single frame without regenerating from scratch.
Tested wardrobe swaps, environment shifts, and style transfers.
Video walkthrough of the process coming in a separate post.
Some quick mockups for Relay, an AI infrastructure platform concept built around model routing, observability, and performance.
Exploring what a mobile command center could look like for teams managing multiple AI models, with a focus on clear data, fast decisions, and a developer-first UX.
Product design, mobile UI, AI tools, and a little systems thinking all in one.