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This is an AI-assisted beauty concept created through a combination of prompt development, composition, lighting direction, and image refinement. I was inspired by the prismatic lighting effect and wanted to create a fashion-focused image with a clean, cinematic feel. Projects like this allow me to explore creative concepts and visual styles that blend traditional photography principles with modern AI tools.
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🥣 DOPALOOPS: A critique of the era of digital overstimulation
Hi community! I wanted to share my project for the contest. This time, I decided to take a path with a touch of dark humor, a bit of controversy, and a direct critique of one of the heaviest dynamics of modern life: the constant injection of dopamine we live in.
Social media networks know this perfectly well and exploit it to trap us in their algorithms. Traditionally, the moments when we think and come up with our best ideas come from boredom and internal dialogue. Today, that space barely exists; it seems we must be constantly entertained and bombarded with stimuli.
To materialize this idea, I created a fictional product: DOPALOOPS. A breakfast cereal where the flakes are sugar-coated likes and notifications. Now with more dopamine!
🐒 The Character: A reflection of our own trance
The protagonist of this universe is a somewhat dark character. I specifically chose a tarsier because of its gigantic eyes and that particular expression that gives you the feeling it hasn't left its room in years.
It is so hypnotized by its smartphone that it borders on the absurd: it completely ignores the bowl of cereal it is theoretically supposed to be selling. It’s the perfect avatar for our own digital trance.
🛠️ The Workflow with Recraft: The battle for the ideal pixel
Working on the entire series with the Recraft platform was quite a challenge. To be honest, the process was much longer than it should have been, and I spent way more tokens than necessary trying to get the AI to understand the exact composition.
I had a very fixed vision in my head regarding the visual outcome and the level of detail I wanted to achieve, so I took the time to patiently iterate until I reached the closest possible version to what I had imagined.
These are my honest project links:
First part: https://www.recraft.ai/project/0f68b36c-ab23-451b-911b-57e68a935321
Second part: https://www.recraft.ai/project/96989a3f-4524-47e4-8191-f3026b825bc1
I know that is a mess. But you can see paths I was discarded.
I’d love to know what you think about the concept and the scene setup! Critiques, opinions, and feedback are more than welcome in the comments. 👇
RORO is a small axolotl-like creature born in the underground world — curious, fearless, and always searching for what lies beyond the next doorway.
Armed with a lantern and endless wonder, RORO travels between dimensions without ever losing itself. That's the whole point.
This is the mascot for RORO — an imaginary t-shirt brand built around one character and infinite worlds.
THE CHARACTER RORO is slate blue with coral-red feathery gills and dark sharp spikes. Slightly mysterious. Slightly mischievous. Completely unafraid. The kind of character you'd recognize on a poster, a sticker, a packaging label, or a tiny thumbnail — and know immediately who it is.
TWO SERIES RORO BRAND:
1. WORLDS — each print places RORO inside a different dimension: ocean depths, crystal caves, alien landscapes, surrealist architecture. The world changes. The character never does.
2. RORO STATES — each print captures RORO mid-adventure: steampunk biker, monster fighter, underground cartographer, volcanic onsen dreamer. One character. Infinite sides.
Together the two series create a brand universe that can expand forever without losing coherence.
Every world has a story.
Such a fun character! I love how you built an entire brand world around one mascot. It feels memorable and full of personality👏
MÉL THE SEAL — Remote Work Solutions for Tired Creative People
Meet Mel: a sleepy harbor seal built from lavender raff, client revisions, lofi beats, low battery mode, and tiny wins.
What started as a small painting of a seal with cosmic eyes became a full mascot-led brand world. I developed Mel’s personality, origin story, visual identity, comic series, emotional language, packaging, merch, stickers, social content, and a card game for freelancers surviving the workday.
The goal was to create more than a cute mascot. Mel needed to feel like the same character everywhere: in a comic panel, on a coffee cup, inside a sticker pack, on a hoodie, and in a tiny animated moment of client-revision panic.
Built with Recraft Studio:
Character exploration, reference-image workflows, V4.1 Vector identity studies, packaging and merchandise applications, social assets, storyboards, and image-to-video experiments.
Always tired. Often late. Still shows up.
Full Case Study: https://www.recraft.ai/project/2a11d3ab-1851-4c5e-b259-3e3a54b46633
My loom is in the comments.
This character represents my turbulent introvert soul!!!I like it very much!!!Are you planning to make it as a telegram sticker? If yes, I'm willing to buy it!
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