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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.
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For the Contra x Envato Challenge, 'Human by Design', we built a brand identity and animated a promo video for 'Olo', an accessible crypto-trading platform.
To us, the core of this challenge wasn't about creating more content with AI, but about maintaining one clear creative direction. When drawing from a massive library of separate AI generations, stock footage, fonts, and music, a project can easily turn into a disjointed visual mess. Envato served as our entire toolkit - from AI-generated audio and assets to stock templates and typography.
But every asset still had to answer one crucial question: 'Does this truly feel like Olo'? Guided by the brand promise of making crypto trading accessible for everyone, everywhere, human instinct drove the entire creative process:
1. Curating over generating: Rejecting raw AI outputs that felt flat or out of context and ruthlessly filtering for what actually worked.
2. Building a visual identity: Applying custom effects to transform generic stock footage into a unified aesthetic.
3. Directing the flow: Motion design, precise typography, and timing every single movement to the rhythm of the music in After Effects. Envato Stock and AI tools dramatically accelerate the build process, but it’s the human creator who infuses the soul. It provides the ingredients, but art direction, taste, and instinct define the quality of the final result.
Toolkit: Envato (Envato AI, Stock, Fonts, Audio) + After Effects & Adobe Illustrator.
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Giving a fresh feel to my client's website with @Envato at the forefront of my workflow. 👩🎨🍋
Combining my client's brand design and creative assets from Envato, I animated the product using Envato's AI toolkit.
AI is still falling short on delivering a stand alone hero-section-ready output, this is where the human creativity comes in.
AI video was good but flat so I layered in depth, image and texture I got from Envato, giving it fresh, creative, brand-aligned look the raw AI output could not deliver.
Is "technically good", "actually good"?
I think it's a distinction AI can't tell. What do you think?
See the full workflow and the part AI can't deliver in the video. 🎬
Agree with the distinction. Technically good usually means the output is coherent and error free, actually good means it fits the brand and makes the client's product feel like theirs. That second part is still very much a taste call, not something a model can judge for itself yet.
Hey Contra 💃 Something big happened, I became one of the winners of the 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗻 $𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬 🏆
First of all, thank you all for the incredible support ❤️🫶✨
And honestly Wonder really impressed me. It feels extremely smooth and enjoyable to design with this AI 🔥
I was also surprised to learn at the winners' announcement that the team is only 8 people, as Aibek Yegemberdin mentioned
That’s insane.
It really shows how talented this team is. Highly recommend everyone to try it.
Big congratulations to all the other winners Tanya Deep, Edoardo Galati, Alex K, Noor Mtir, Sergey Bertagnini, and to everyone who participated 👏
Now, let’s move to the report 👇
𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟖𝟐 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐨
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦:
💎 +60 followers from last report
💎 Current progress: 651 / 1,000 followers
💎 Other metrics stayed stable
Thank you for following this journey, truly grateful for every one of you 🫶
More coming soon 🐐 + 💬 = ❤️
Thats incredible! See you on more challenge!