Freelancers using Melius in Zagreb

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Jelena Stricak

proZagreb, Croatia

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The Painter of Cities is a Melius-built cinematic short about an impossible gilded automaton that paints a living city onto a monumental black wall. From the city he creates, a female droid briefly appears within the painted surface. They reach toward each other, almost touching, before she is reclaimed by the wall. It is a quiet story about creation, longing, and the tragedy of making something beautiful that cannot fully enter your world. https://app.melius.com/projects/23546fb0-e3a3-4074-925f-676dfe384aad/canvas/f96fdb6f-cf03-40cd-ba59-f1ddd40a23a6 PROCESS STEPS The project began with the challenge theme: create something that should exist, but doesn’t. The core concept became The Painter of Cities: an impossible gilded automaton that paints a living city onto a monumental black wall. Melius was used to generate sequential image keyframes for the story: the city being painted, the female droid appearing inside the wall, their near-touch, and her return to the painted surface. The prompts were refined through several iterations to preserve visual continuity across the male droid, female droid, city wall, studio, palette, and old-master oil-paint aesthetic. Short silent video scenes were generated from the keyframes, then adjusted to control pacing, motion, transitions, and emotional tone. The video scenes were stitched into a final silent film. An original instrumental music cue was generated to match the final timing and emotional arc of the film. FEEDBACK ON USING MELIUS Melius worked best as a visual production canvas rather than a one-shot generator. The node-based workflow made it possible to build the project step by step: image keyframes, video scenes, stitching, music, and final assets.The strongest part was being able to iterate visually and preserve the creative process inside the canvas.The hardest part was controlling motion continuity between generated video clips. Some transitions and character movements required very precise prompting, especially when preserving the same droid designs and painterly world across multiple nodes.

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One year ago, we took a leap into the unknown. Not because it was easy. Starting over never is. There are always doubts, risks, and countless reasons to stay where you are. But curiosity has a way of winning. @Bob Vasic and I have known each other since high school, sitting in the last row of the classroom. A year ago, that friendship became @RaptorLabs Agency. Today, we're building AI-native systems, products, and the company we always wanted to work for. Cheers to my best friend, co-founder, and the best CTO I could ask for. Here's to the first year—and everything we're building next.

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My obsession with history, and with reimagining it, began when I first read The Sarantine Mosaic by G. G. Kay and Theodora by P. I. Wellman. The Byzantine Empire became my first historical love: brilliant, ambitious, contradictory, and impossible to forget. This website emerged almost fully formed in a matter of seconds. I built it purely for my own amusement: a forbidden archive from a timeline where Justinian's empire discovered the heavens before anyone else. Every character is based on a real historical figure and the deeds for which history remembers them. Justinian remains the visionary, Theodora the force that refuses to yield, Belisarius the conqueror, and Tribonian the lawgiver. The people are unchanged. Only the frontier is different. In this version, they do not conquer the Mediterranean. They conquer the stars. Or perhaps whatever lies beyond them. https://beyond-firmament.lovable.app (https://beyond-firmament.lovable.app/)

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The machine finally found the museum. Or maybe the museum was waiting for him. The Accidental Editor keeps collecting evidence, myths, mistakes, and small suspicious moments across history — and this time, the next door is already open. Video made in @CapCut accidentaleditor.xyz (http://accidentaleditor.xyz)

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