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Melius Project
Title: "Museums Alive” Cinematic Video for International Museum Day 18th Many 2026
Project Overview
I created a cinematic 45-second promotional video for International Museum Day 2026. Titled “Museums Alive”, the video celebrates the magic of museums as living spaces where history, art, and human connection come alive. This project is especially meaningful to me because I’ve always had a deep love for museums, they are places that spark wonder, preserve our shared heritage, and connect us across time and cultures.
Why This Matters:
International Museum Day is today (May 18), and this video is ready for immediate use by museums worldwide to boost engagement and visitor numbers.
Creative Concept
Title: Museums Alive
Tagline: One Day. Infinite Worlds. The video takes viewers on a poetic journey through time and cultures, showing how museums bring the past to life with warmth and elegance. Storyboard Highlights
Scene 1: Wide shot of a grand sculpture hall with sunlight dramatically streaming through high windows.
Scene 2: Medium close-up of a marble bust, shallow depth of field highlighting intricate carving and smooth texture.
Scene 3: Smooth tracking shot past classic paintings in ornate frames.
Scene 4: Delicate hand gesture fingers gently reaching toward a stone sculpture, conveying wonder and connection
Style Direction
Cinematic & Elegant 35mm lens aesthetic, Kodak Vision3 500T film look, warm highlights with rich deep shadows
Final Deliverables:
Full 45-second cinematic video (horizontal)
Short vertical version optimized for Reels & TikTok
Key visual frames & variations
Social media thumbnails
How I Used Melius + Canva:
I started with Melius’ Storyboard Agent to structure the narrative. Using the node-based canvas, I generated multiple high-quality cinematic clips while maintaining consistent lighting, color grade, and artistic style. I then combined all the Melius-generated clips in Canva, added smooth transitions, refined the pacing, synced the voiceover, and delivered the final polished video.
Key Strengths Demonstrated
Strong cinematic visual language and emotional storytelling
Efficient workflow combining AI generation with final editing
Passion-driven content creation
My Feedback on Melius:
The node-based creative canvas made it very easy to maintain artistic consistency across multiple scenes while rapidly iterating on camera movements, mood, and composition. Also, a few scenes were hitting a persistent content flag even with neutral rephrasing, so Melius kept it to avoid further credit waste.
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Project Description:
"Still Water" - an animated short film and original music about a boy who throws a stone at his own smiling reflection, then sinks willingly into the water to chase the version of himself he wishes he could be. The twist: the "lake" was his tears on a kitchen table the whole time.
Process Steps:
Concept & Music First. I started by asking: What kind of animated film do I wish existed? I landed on self-acceptance, something that feels like Song of the Sea meets a music video. I wrote the song concept first, inspired by Aurora's "Runaway" and Ariana Grande's "Past Life," then generated the track on MELIUS to see if the vibe would land. It did.
Visual Style Development. I built the visual identity using GPT Image 2, generating character reference sheets and environment concepts.
Storyboard Generation. I mostly generated 8-panel storyboard shots in GPT Image 2, attaching the character and environment references to every generation for consistency. Each panel is a keyframe for the animation.
Animation with Seedance 2.0. I fed each storyboard panel into Seedance as a reference image, with detailed motion prompts describing body language, camera movement, ambient life, and lighting.
The workflow touched multiple node types: text generation for concept and lyrics, GPT Image 2 for storyboards and reference sheets, Seedance 2.0 for animation, and ElevenLabs for the original song.
Feedback on Melius:
The agent was genuinely useful for refining ideas I would sometimes describe a rough concept and it would help me structure it, catch inconsistencies, and suggest improvements. The multi-node workflow (text → image → video) made the pipeline feel connected rather than fragmented.
One thing I would love to see: A "Question Mode" toggle, where I can ask the agent something without it making changes to my project. Sometimes I just wanted advice or a second opinion, not an edit. A simple toggle between "Plan/Ask" and "Execute" would make the creative back-and-forth feel more natural.
Overall, it was fun. Building a complete animated short with original music in a few days, using Melius agent as a creative partner rather than a replacement, felt like a glimpse of where filmmaking is going.
It leads me my childhood~
Thank you!
-= Melius Time Machine =-
In the year 8080, a young man lives in a perfect futuristic world filled with neon towers, holograms, and advanced technology. Yet behind all that progress, his life feels empty and repetitive. One night, a holographic advertisement appears in his apartment: “Melius Time Machine — Choose Any Era.” Curiosity pulls him out of his boredom, and he decides to visit the mysterious time machine facility.
At the Melius Time Machine facility, he discovers a realistic elevator-shaped time machine made of glass, metal, blue light rings, and advanced control panels. Inside the elevator, he sees multiple era options: past decades, future destinations, the Dinosaur Era, and Mars Colony. After a moment of hesitation, he presses “Dinosaur Era.” The machine activates, energy builds, and his first journey through time begins.
The elevator doors open into a vast prehistoric world filled with giant forests, waterfalls, flying pterosaurs, and dinosaurs moving across the valley. He is amazed at first, but wonder quickly turns into fear when a predator appears and roars in the distance. He rushes back into the elevator and chooses a new destination: Mars Colony. In an instant, the machine jumps forward again, opening onto a red-orange Martian landscape filled with domes, towers, rovers, drifting dust, and Earth visible in the sky. What began as boredom becomes a journey of awe, fear, and inspiration.
Project link: https://app.melius.com/projects/2e122519-ebfe-4372-90e1-94ada36834fc/canvas/d354c16e-c5e6-4663-8e54-5f0d27ca61c7
X posting: https://x.com/woleswoosh/status/2055367483700457651?s=20
this is so cool wow
I created MINDGUESS AI around a concept I found genuinely fascinating:
“What if an AI could understand what you’re thinking only through small hints and patterns?”
The idea behind the project was to design an AI experience where users give subtle clues about a character, object, animal, or personality, and the AI intelligently predicts what they are thinking about. I wanted the interaction to feel immersive and futuristic, almost like communicating with a digital mind capable of intuition and reasoning.
Instead of building a typical chatbot interface, I focused on creating a cinematic sci-fi experience that visually represents intelligence, prediction, and human-AI connection. Every element on the page, from the glowing holographic UI to the neon atmosphere and live statistics panels, was designed to make users feel like they are interacting with an advanced AI entity rather than a simple guessing game.
The purpose of MINDGUESS AI is not just entertainment, but to explore how AI can interpret human hints, behavior, and decision patterns in an engaging and visually immersive way.
Steps I used for the project:
I designed the complete landing page and futuristic user experience inside Melius, focusing on cyberpunk-inspired visuals, cinematic lighting, holographic interface elements, and immersive composition. I refined multiple prompt variations to achieve the perfect balance between realism, futuristic aesthetics, and interactive storytelling. The entire concept was built around making the AI feel intelligent, mysterious, and alive.
Feedback on my experience using Melius:
Melius made the creative process feel very fluid and experimental, especially while testing different futuristic concepts and visual directions. What I enjoyed most was the ability to iterate quickly and push cinematic design ideas without losing quality. One of the more challenging parts was balancing strong visual effects while still keeping the interface readable and functional, but overall the experience was smooth, inspiring, and highly creative from start to finish.
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