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Back in 2016 I made a lot of cinemagraphs for HBO.
They took a surprising amount of work. Masking footage, finding the right loop, freezing parts of the frame and getting everything to transition cleanly.
I’ve had an idea for a simpler cinemagraph tool kicking around in my head ever since.
About a month ago I built another small tool using Toolcraft as the starting point, so yesterday I wanted to see if it could handle this idea too.
A few hours later I had a working cinemagraph editor.
Drop in a video → find your loop → choose how it loops → paint the areas you want to keep still → export.
Basically the workflow I used 10 years ago, condensed into a few controls.
Still rough around the edges, but kind of wild to finally build a tool I’ve been thinking about for a decade.
The masking-and-looping history is exactly why a simpler cinemagraph workflow feels valuable; the tricky part is preserving a seamless transition without making the tool feel like a timeline editor. Curious direction for an AI-assisted app.
Script writting to Ai video generation
"RAKSHAK — THE DEMON PRINCE"
Rakshak is the Crown Prince of the Demon Realm, a world buried deep beneath the earth with no sunlight, no clean water and no fresh air. His people have suffered in darkness for generations while the worlds above them lived freely under open sky.
When his father's ministers demand war, Rakshak demands peace. He volunteers to enter the Human Realm alone as an envoy and propose a simple offer. Land for his people to settle peacefully in exchange for the protection of the mightiest warrior force in all three realms.
Five human emperors throw him out. One listens.
Emperor Manas of Suryagarh hears his proposal, offers him his daughter Princess Chitra in marriage to seal the alliance and grants the demon people land to call their own under open sky.
But the moment the alliance is formed, seven rebel emperors unite and march on Suryagarh calling Manas a traitor. Rakshak leads the combined demon and human army onto the battlefield and defeats them all. The rebel emperors surrender and agree to pay tribute to Suryagarh forever.
Rakshak returns victorious, keeps every promise he ever made and watches his people walk out of the darkness and into the sunlight for the very first time.
A story about courage. Peace. And the power of one person who refused to stop walking forward.
More Progress on the SILO web experience, now the generator power cut works and controls the real time lighting on the whole SILO
The power-cut interaction is a great way to make the lighting system feel tangible—the transition from the dark industrial baseline to the warm windows reads instantly. Nice restraint in the monochrome palette too; it lets the real-time light do the storytelling.