Filmmaker & Motion Designer · AI-Native Production
Put ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 through its paces on a spec, period-specific extreme doc style concept. A solo mountaineer in a harsh alpine environment. Honest read on where the 30-second single-take spec actually holds up, and the pre-production work that goes into making it land.
#Seedance #AIVideo #MotionDesign #CreativeWorkflow
Over the past few weeks, I have shared a lot of what I have been working towards for years with Halate (https://www.linkedin.com/company/halate/). It’s the part of my life I share most often, and something that genuinely makes me proud. But there are also other sides of me that I like to share every once in a while.
Building a personal brand and starting a new company are deeply personal. It can feel like you are creating something for yourself, but in ways it can also feel like you are simply trying to make enough money to pay the rent and cover your basic needs. Sometimes I feel like just another cog in the machine we call capitalism.
Over the last few years I have been working a lot on myself and trying to see who I really am and what I really want. But because of internal and external struggles I also feel like a ghost in a shell that is just here to fulfill the social standards that we have build. I struggle with depression, loneliness and a general feeling of uselessness. I question life often and a lot of times it feels meaningless.
Besides those internal struggles, I am constantly confronted by everything happening around us… trying to find a home, searching for more work, struggling to form meaningful connections, the state of the world, people blaming minorities for society’s problems, the rise of AI and whatever else comes next…
These thoughts occupy my mind almost every day. Even though I have managed to turn my passion into my work, I still struggle to tell my own stories and express my own creativity.
So from today, I want to do something with these thoughts and struggles. I want to make space for my own stories, not to chase likes or views and not because I expect to change anyone’s mind.
Simply to express myself, for myself.
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Today, we’re launching Halate. 🎬
After months of building, creating, refining and probably overthinking a few things along the way, it’s finally time to share what we’ve been working on.
Halate is the next chapter for @Omar Duyarlar and me, a creative production studio built around something we both care deeply about: telling stories through film.
We partner with brands to turn ideas, innovations and real experiences into films that people actually want to watch. From case studies and product films to event productions.
But instead of writing a long post about who we are and what we do, we made a film about it.
So… meet Halate.
This is just the beginning.
halate.io (http://halate.io)
Brands like Gap are showing that the strongest content today does more than showcase products, it turns fashion into entertainment.
I explored that idea by making a spec piece on my Super 8 camera, not just as a camera, but as an extension sitting at the intersection of tech, style, nostalgia, and utility.
But the bigger point for me as a creative strategist is this: good content direction is not about choosing what looks cool, it is about choosing what communicates best. Knowing when a concept calls for something cinematic, elevated, and story-led vs when it should feel lo-fi and socially native, goes a long way. Creative that performs is rarely accidental. The visual language, tone, pacing, and format all shape how a brand is perceived and how a viewer feels. When those choices are intentional, the message gets stronger.
Excited to enter Another Big Ad Contest hosted by Runway for a chance at $100,000 in prizes!🔥
My pick was a portable speaker Jaunt as my product.
All the visuals were generated inside Runway.
Song was generated by me in Suno.
Post-edit in DaVinci Studio.
Let me know your thoughts!
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For my #EnvatoChallenge I made a social reel called People.
Every stranger you pass is living a life as full and complicated as your own.
You just never get to see it.
That was the whole starting point. You catch a half-second of someone and your brain files them as an extra in your movie, while they're the main character of theirs, with a whole thing going on you'll never know about.
So I tried to make something that sits in that feeling.
No story line, but just a reminder that everyone's got one.
I used Envato for music, images and videos starting with stock images that I got inspired by and used as references and to expand ideas from those.
I believe the main human by design call I had to make was not only the final edit, but prompting for "imperfect" generations.
AI is trained to give the perfect image every time, centered angles, equal proportions, bright colors. I tried the complete opposite while still trying to make it look like a complete social reel.
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My submission for #RenoiseChallenge is a commercial for Veil.
The goal was to make something cinematic with a twist at the end.
Tools used in Renoise: Midjourney, GPT 2, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0.
Post-edit in DaVinci Resolve.
Unfortunately couldn't figure out a way to share my canvas workflow, but check out the screenshot in the comments below.
Let me know your thoughts🧠
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Kylie's Cosmetics concept product showcase.
This week's fun project. Was experimenting with AI's video possibilities. Tools: SeeDance 4.5, Kling 2.1, Veo 3.1.
Which bit of the video should I drop a prompt for? 🙌