Been experimenting with how far one simple beauty product can go with AI-assisted creative direct...Been experimenting with how far one simple beauty product can go with AI-assisted creative direct...
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Been experimenting with how far one simple beauty product can go with AI-assisted creative direction.
For this experiment, I chose something intentionally simple: a black eyeliner.
The goal wasn’t just to generate beautiful images. I wanted to see how the same product could live across completely different visual identities — while still feeling like part of one campaign.
I explored everything from clean commercial beauty to product advertising, male editorial, alternative fashion, and a more experimental upside-down concept.
The challenging part? Product consistency.
Once you change the model, lighting, angle, environment, and creative direction, even a simple eyeliner can start changing its proportions, tip shape, or appearance.
That’s the part of AI content creation I find most interesting: not just generating an image, but art directing the output until the product and the idea work together.
Still experimenting, still refining — but I love how one tiny product can become five completely different stories.
Experimented a bit today with Krea and image generation for a case study I’m putting together around AI EarPods connected to OpenAI.
The focus has been on creating fashion-forward product imagery and art directing a world that feels specific to the identity, rather than just generating nice-looking AI images.
The trickiest part has been product consistency. Especially getting the EarPods to actually sit snug in the ear. If you’ve worked through this process, you probably know the struggle 😅
Simply telling AI to “make it fit more snug or in the ear” doesn’t always work. It loves to reinterpret the product every time.
Still experimenting, but getting closer. If anyone has found a good workflow for keeping products consistent across AI-generated shoots, I’d love to hear it!
What happens when you take a hero frame from an AI-generated video and push it back into an image edit model?
This weekend I took a still from a recent Seedance 2.5 piece I made —depicting a solo mountaineer in a harsh alpine environment — and ran it through Midjourney's new v8.2 edit model to see how far I could iterate on a single frame without regenerating from scratch.
Tested wardrobe swaps, environment shifts, and style transfers.
Video walkthrough of the process coming in a separate post.