Seven poses on the casting sheet. He used one: lying down. Casting sheet in the replies. My entry...

Seven poses on the casting sheet. He used one: lying down. Casting sheet in the replies. My entry...Seven poses on the casting sheet. He used one: lying down. Casting sheet in the replies. My entry...

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Sarp Yildiz

• 1d

Seven poses on the casting sheet. He used one: lying down. Casting sheet in the replies.

My entry below, feedback welcome, and I'll return real feedback on yours. 🐉

#envatochallenge #humanbydesign

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Sarp Yildiz

• Jul 19

Candle & Crumb, "Some cakes come with dragons."

For this challenge, I made a 24-second ad for a bakery that doesn't exist. A completely ordinary family birthday, one small impossible guest, and nobody reacts. That's the product: some cakes come with dragons.

I'm a filmmaker, so I...

Sarp Yildiz

• 1d

The casting sheet. Seven poses, one identity, every shot. Four other dragons didn't make it.

Dan Pop

• 17h

Very creative concept and nice execution! I really enjoyed watching it. Congrats!

Guoshuai Zhang

pro

• 9h

Fantastic piece! The atmosphere and pacing work really well together. I can imagine this took a lot of experimentation to get right.

sakshi ranglani

• Jul 14

Wear Your Feelings — a pop-surrealist streetwear ecosystem 🧠🔥

Standard AI gave me generic clip art. My Human by Design moment: overriding it, mapping every detail to real psychology — handwritten letters for Grief, exploding dough for Hope, a vinyl record for Nostalgia, a "CLOSED" sign for Burnout, grenade chilis for Rage.

Started as a cookbook concept. Became a full brand — apparel, sunglasses, hot sauce packaging, campaign reels — one Envato pipeline, start to finish.

@Envato gave it a canvas. Human taste gave it a soul. Check out the raw walkthrough video below for the exact workflow breakdown. 🎬👇

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sakshi ranglani

• Jul 14

walkthrough:

Nigar Naghdaliyeva

pro

• Jul 14

For this challenge, I created KUMO, a playful toy brand from scratch 🧸✨

I designed the toy characters, developed the branding, created custom mockups, and designed a website to bring the whole world together. I used Envato throughout the creative process for visuals, assets, experimentation, and refinement, while Suno helped me create the background music 🎵

From the toys to the website, I wanted every detail to feel playful, cohesive, and part of the same nostalgic world.

X post: https://x.com/Naghdaliyevaart/status/2077058839824716106?s=20

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Aru Mukash

pro

• Jul 14

so cool!!

Jerold Llauderes

pro

• Jul 15

First Row Only — My Human by Design Entry

For the #EnvatoChallenge, I wanted to test the Human by Design theme rather than simply talk about it. In a world where AI and asset libraries offer almost unlimited options, I wanted to see whether removing most of those choices would make human judgment more visible.

If chance decided what I searched for and the first row limited what I could use, could I still turn those ingredients into something intentional?

That question became First Row Only. Four random words decided what I searched for, and every asset had to come from the first row. I could reroll, but only all four words together. Once I accepted a set, it was locked. The constraint removed the safety net of searching for the perfect assets. It forced me to recognize potential, make tradeoffs, and turn a random combination into a coherent design. I built a simple Chrome extension to keep the process honest.

On the fifth draw, I got FESTIVAL for the photo, TEXTURE for the graphic, SOFT SERIF for the font, and HERO as the poster word. The font direction wasn’t what I wanted, but the other ingredients had too much potential to ignore.

My Human by Design moment was choosing to build the base image myself. ImageGen could have produced a finished poster faster, and possibly even a more polished design than I could build on my own. But this wasn’t about outperforming AI. I wanted to own the typography, composition, and message, then let VideoGen extend my design into motion. Finally, I used SoundGen to complete the animation with a five-second festival sound.

Choosing the assets with the most potential, deciding what to create myself, and knowing where AI could take it further—that’s Human by Design.

Photo: https://elements.envato.com/happy-woman-with-beer-at-music-festival-beach-part-47MHHLQ

Graphics: https://app.envato.com/graphics/bd84b367-eab4-4c9d-90f8-a315492a4bb9

Font: https://app.envato.com/fonts/25be1e81-2577-45ef-bb6f-f023323ca44e

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