Evgeniya Strygina - AI Artist | ContraWork by Evgeniya StryginaEvgeniya Strygina
AI Video Producer for Campaigns, UGC & Brand Films
Original Animated Micro-Series — THE THINGS WE CARRY
In a city where humans and monsters live side by side, Spindle runs a small repair shop for things that are not always meant to be repaired.
The pilot follows Tobias Mourn, a quiet, imposing monster who comes to Spindle with a problem he can't explain: his heart hurts, even though there is nothing physically wrong with it.
After trying to fix it himself, Tobias encounters a young woman in the city who looks at him as if she already knows him.
“Dad?”
Tobias doesn't remember her.
But something inside him does.
Each episode follows another unusual repair and the character who brings it through Spindle's shop — gradually revealing the lives, relationships and histories hidden behind the things they want fixed.
At the centre of the series is Tobias and the mystery of what happened to him before he became the person he is now.
I wanted The Things We Carry to feel like a world that already existed before the camera arrived: strange, human, quietly funny, and a little melancholic. Making a Fictional AI Vlog Feel Real
A creative experiment exploring how far generative video can go when the goal is to make a fictional vlog feel real — spontaneous, imperfect and believable rather than obviously AI-generated.
The project was inspired by the current wave of speculation around a possible Kanye West visit to Russia, as well as the unexpected viral spread of 'Silver Night' in Kanye West’s voice. Both became starting points for imagining an entirely fictional trip through Saint Petersburg.
The idea was to place a highly recognisable public figure into a completely different cultural and visual environment and explore how naturally the two could coexist on screen. Everyday locations, cultural details, movement and sound became part of the storytelling rather than simply serving as background.
The visual language deliberately moves away from the polished aesthetic often associated with generative AI, experimenting instead with a more naturalistic, vlog-like approach. The character needed to remain consistent across different locations and situations while the footage retained a sense of spontaneity and imperfection.
Created for the SYNTX AI challenge. AI Concept Video Production — Reimagining The Met Art Collection
The piece I chose is the Animal-Shaped Spit Rest, a 9th–10th century carved stone work. Originally, it was used to support a spit over a fire. Today, it is part of The Met’s collection.
That shift made me think about how our relationship with art can also become utilitarian in a different way — including using it as a backdrop for a selfie or as a decorative part of an interior.
I wanted to turn this idea upside down and rethink our relationship with art. What if, instead of looking at it from the outside, we could enter it from within? In my imagined world, the people living inside the sculpture see it as something they belong to. Perhaps that’s another way of experiencing art: not as something to look at, but as something to be part of.
Thank you, FLORA, for this challenge. Working directly with art, reimagining it, and experimenting with generative AI — basically everything I love in one perfect combo.
Original artwork: The Met — Animal-Shaped Spit Rest
(https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/449147?utm_source=chatgpt.com)FLORA workflow: FLORA project
(https://app.flora.ai/view/js7041hjr75yy7qywc4era998s8dymst)Social media: Instagram post (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdAIXGcCmYu/?stkn=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&utm_source=chatgpt.com) One-take cinematic AI film production
This is an FPV drone flight through a city during a solar eclipse.
The camera moves from a crowded square to a football stadium without any cuts or transitions. I wanted to show how people react when something unusual happens, and routine becomes ritual
As the eclipse shadow advances, people who don't know each other start moving in sync — looking up at the same time, adjusting their position together, reacting as one group. The drone follows this rhythm from quiet individual moments in the city to a massive collective gasp in the stadium
Built in CapCut Video Studio with Seedance 2.5.
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