Ibtisam Shaheer
Growth UI Architect, Years of experience, Scaling Startups.
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Title: ENVATO: THE WONDERLAND | A Tactile 3D Short Film
Description:
AI can generate the pixels, but only a human can direct the soul.
Welcome to Envato: The Wonderland, my submission for the #HumanByDesign challenge. The goal was to push the boundaries of AI generation, moving away from the typical "smooth and plastic" digital look and forcing the models to replicate the tactile, handcrafted beauty of stop-motion like clay and felt.
To achieve this Oscar-level cinematic feel, frames was meticulously directed with 12-bit HDR lighting, and physical lens diffraction. But the true magic lies in the edit.
The heart-pounding tension, the emotional pivot, and the triumphant finale were constructed using sub-second rhythmic editing, anchored entirely by the incredible audio assets provided by Envato Elements. By layering industrial braams, acoustic melodies, and rich real-world physics over the AI visuals, the story transforms from a sequence of images into a living, breathing cinematic experience.
Credits:
🎬 Directed & Edited by: Ibtisam Shaheer
🎵 Music & Sound Design: Powered by Envato Elements
✨ Visual Generation: Envato video genration (Custom Tactile 3D Prompts)
#EnvatoChallenge #HumanByDesign #AIAnimation #ShortFilm #Cinematic #EnvatoElements
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Logline:
Every reality is a trap.
The ANCHOR:
A digital consciousness is fractured across shifting dimensions—from scorched desert wastelands to the crushing dark of the abyss. As the simulation breaks, a silver-haired boy discovers that his only lifeline—a heavy titanium ring—is actually a biological tether anchoring him to a gargantuan, living nightmare.
Director/Creator:
Ibtisam Shaheer
Technical Breakdown:
AI Engine: Renoise AI
Core Tech: FacePass (Character Consistency) & Canvas (World-Building)
[[[Visual Standard: 4K Anamorphic / ACES Color Pipeline]]
Project: Renoise x Contra Challenge Submission
Connect with the Project:
#RenoiseAI #AICinema #TheAnchor #IbtisamShaheer #SciFiThriller #VFX #AIFilmChallenge #ContraChallenge #Cinematography
((Years of experience on one plate))
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Project Title: Crazy Chef: The Flavor Apocalypse
Tagline: Stop Cooking. Start Forging.
The Vision:
The traditional recipe market is a graveyard of uninspired utility. Crazy Chef disrupts the status quo by reclassifying the kitchen as a Tactical Creative Laboratory. We move beyond the "Digital Cookbook" to provide a Generative Playground where raw materials (reagents) are forged into high-status, health-optimized artifacts.
Core Technical Pillars:
The Discovery Lens: A high-speed AI reconnaissance tool that identifies kitchen reagents in real-time.
The Forge Engine: A proprietary "Madness Engine" that allows users to calibrate their creativity from "Safe" to "Reality Breaker" (Level 5), generating world-first flavor profiles.
Council of Masters: User experience is dictated by elite AI Personas (Ninja, Scientist, Panda, Joker), each providing unique lore, cooking speed, and visual styles.
Artifact Blueprints: Every creation is rewarded with a high-fidelity Manga-style poster, mythic lore, and professional-grade Bio-Data (Macro-nutrients and Vitality Grades).
The Arena: A competitive social ecosystem where Architects battle for "Flavor IQ" (XP) and "Ember" currency in a self-sustaining peer-to-peer marketplace.
The Impact:
Crazy Chef is designed for the gaming generation and high-performance athletes who demand both unhinged creativity and mathematical precision. We are turning 100 million kitchens into centers of invention.
The apocalypse of blandness is over. It’s time to Forge.
Link:https://crazy-chef-25634.bubbleapps.io/version-test/api/1.1/mobile/preview?debug_mode=true&preview_view=c.4
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Quality matters 📖 PROJECT MANIFESTO: A LITTLE LIFE https://www.figma.com/proto/fr8Z2zciI0DKmyQR9TLFGc/The-little-life-.?node-id=57-108737&p=f&t=1ikrY54EW6XhWYhp-0&scaling=min-zoom&content-scaling=fixed&page-id=0%3A1
"Technology that remembers how humans love."
THE VISION: Beyond the Digital Graveyard
We are currently living in a "Digital Memory Decay." Our most precious moments are buried in the infinite, sterile scroll of a camera roll—a graveyard of pixels. A Little Life is the antidote. It is a Cinematic Memory Operating System, a digital reliquary designed to treat a single coffee receipt with the same reverence as a wedding vow. It is not an app; it is a Sanctuary.
THE DESIGN DNA: Tactile Magic Realism
The project is built on the philosophy of Tactile Magic Realism. We have fused high-fidelity Skeuomorphism (physicality you can almost smell) with Elite Glassmorphism (digital intelligence).
The Artisan’s Workshop: The entire OS lives inside a master craftsman’s studio. Every interaction is grounded in wood, brass, velvet, and parchment.
The Memory Tailor: At the heart of the system is a 3D sprite—the Architect of Remembrance—who doesn't "upload" your files, but "stitches" them into the fabric of your life using golden threads of light.
The 3-Degree Rule: To preserve humanity, no element in the system is perfectly straight. Photos and tape are rotated 1.5 to 3.5 degrees, simulating the beautiful imperfection of a human hand.
THE FIVE ACTS OF REMEMBRANCE
The Sanctuary (Landing): A 32:9 cinematic view of a green velvet book, heavy with gold filigree, resting on an oak workbench.
The Atlas (Navigation): A 3D constellation of floating island biomes (Beach, Forest, Mountain) representing different life chapters.
The Composer (The Editor): An open scrapbook where users drag 3D pins and washi tape from a glass stationary drawer to craft their narrative.
The Fabrication (AI Modal): A cinematic sequence where the Memory Tailor uses a vintage brass film projector to synthesize life moments into movies.
The Palace (The Archive): A shared sea of golden liquid where users anchor "Wisdom Boards" to glowing clouds, sharing life lessons with the world.
🏔️ THE STRUGGLE: A 500KM ODYSSEY
This project was not built in a comfortable studio. It was born from a 500-kilometer journey.
To capture the soul of "A Little Life," I traveled 500 kilometers—seeking the exact textures of aged paper in ancient libraries, the specific way golden-hour light hits weathered wood, and the feeling of physical distance that only a long journey can provide.
The Struggle was Real:
Physical Exhaustion: Traveling 500km while balancing the technical complexity of Figma’s AI suite (Make, Weave, Agent).
The Creative Pivot: When tools failed, I didn't stop. I engineered a custom AI pipeline, using Gemini and manual high-fidelity layering to ensure the vision remained pure.
The Pursuit of Detail: Every brass pin, every fiber in the deckled-edge paper, and every shadow was calibrated to match the weight of the memories I encountered during my travels.
I didn't just design this; I lived it. The 500km I traveled is baked into every pixel. It represents the distance between a "file" and a "memory."
🛠️ THE FIGMA CONFIG MAKEATHON INNOVATION
This project pushes the boundaries of what is possible in Figma:
Figma Make: Used to synthesize the complex 32:9 OS overlays and glassmorphism components.
Figma Weave: Leveraged to generate the atmospheric "Workshop" and "Palace" environments.
Innovative Workflow: A unique hybrid pipeline where AI-generated concepts were manually deconstructed into 3D layers, then reconstructed in Figma with physics-based shadows and "Ambient Occlusion" logic.
"A Little Life" is my 500km promise to the world: that our stories are worth more than a scroll. They deserve a home.more than the quantity.
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