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The Fortress the Ottomans “Manifested” Into Conquest.
This is an AI-hybrid project. I generated or transformed most of the assets in the siege scene using Nano Banana. I then composited and animated the scene within After Effects. As with my other videos, I utilized AI for the scriptwriting and voiceover.
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The Renoise Challenge is live, and the theme is a fun one: create something cinematic with an unexpected plot twist.
Here's a short cinematic scene I created while trying out Renoise AI.
Sharing my process in the comments.
Join the challenge here
ONE MORNING. FIFTEEN SECONDS. NO SECOND CHANCES.
There is something quietly devastating about watching someone hold their entire life together with nothing but sheer willpower and a transit card.
No dramatic music. No slow motion. No cinematic luxury.
Just a woman, a clock, and seventeen things that need to happen before the door closes.
This project was an exercise in precision — how much human truth can be compressed into 15 seconds before it stops feeling like content and starts feeling like memory?
Every shot was engineered with intention. Lens choice, sound design, wardrobe continuity, color logic — nothing was accidental. Every cut lands on a beat. Every breath is placed. Every frame earns its place in the sequence.
Because the most cinematic thing in the world is not an explosion or a chase scene.
It is a woman lacing her shoes at full speed and still making it out the door.
🎧 Turn the volume up.
The sound design is doing half the work.
Concept · Direction · Cinematic Design
Engineered through Advanced AI Prompting
Very nicely done
Meet The Sentry: a little security guard who lives inside your login screen. Instead of a standard progress bar, he acts as the UI's emotional feedback layer, reacting in real time to your password strength.
As you type, his posture tells you everything you need to know. A weak password literally puts him to sleep, while a medium one makes him snap to attention. Nail a strong password, and he stands proud with his arms crossed. When you finally hit login, he either gives you a crisp salute on a success, or goes into full panic mode on a failure. Mess up too many times? He completely locks you out with a firm "nuh-uh" attitude.
I designed the character from scratch in Adobe Illustrator, brought the layered SVG into Rive, and rigged him up using 4 bones and 7 distinct animations. The logic is all tied together with a state machine that listens to three specific inputs: a strength number, a success boolean, and a login trigger.
To ground the whole piece, I built out a sleek mobile UI mockup directly on the artboard—complete with a phone frame, text fields, and a login button. It places him right where he belongs: inside a living, breathing product, rather than just floating in an empty void.
X Post : https://x.com/Haseeb47176936/status/2069391146011480149?s=20
this is so fun! make sure to include your Rive invite link or embedded URL for your build too :)
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