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Mehdi Jannati

Mehdi Jannati

crafting worlds through imagination and image creation

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SVGator × Contra Challenge INVESTIGATION BOARD — A Story Driven Promotional Template I wanted to showcase a digital platform through a visual metaphor people instantly recognize: a detective’s investigation board. Fast camera movements connect pinned images and visual clues, while each stop reveals its own image and supporting text, turning a platform’s features into an unfolding story. The concept is designed for reuse: replace the images, update the copy, and adapt the same animation to promote another platform, product, or service. My goal was to combine cinematic storytelling with practical customization—creating a template that is not just visually engaging, but useful to other creators. Created for the #svgatorchallenge
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What happens to a sword after the warrior who carried it is gone? I imagined an answer. Before this katana became a museum object, perhaps it had a life of its own. A hand once wrapped around its grip. Rain once ran across its blade. It may have crossed a battlefield, been drawn in moments of fear, and returned to silence after the fighting ended. We will never know the story of the person who held it. That uncertainty is what interested me. The sword survived. The warrior didn't. The battles disappeared. The memories remained only as an idea of what the object might have witnessed. THE SWORD REMEMBERS is a short cinematic reimagining inspired by this work from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I wanted to imagine the moment a new warrior touches the sword and, for a fraction of a second, sees fragments of the life that came before him. ----------------------------------------------------------- The original artwork: 印籠刻昆虫図螺鈿据文象嵌鞘打刀拵 — Blade and Mounting for a Sword (Katana) Japanese blade: 17th century mounting: 19th century Original artwork: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/24873 FLORA project: https://app.flora.ai/join-project/b05afc1f-b7db-41be-8eb3-074143713c1a Built as part of the FLORA Museum Challenge. @FLORA #FLORAMuseum
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She was created to watch humanity. To witness laughter, love, fear, death — but never to experience any of it. So one day, she asked a forbidden question: Why can they live... while I can only watch? She was given an answer. It wasn't enough. She fell. And when she finally touched the Earth, she discovered something Heaven had never taught her: some things are easier to survive than to control. Her wings changed. Her eyes changed. And everything she looked at began to change with her. The gods eventually found her. But by then, she was no longer the angel who had fallen. She had become something else. And when they asked her to return, she gave them an answer of her own. The story ends there. Or perhaps that's where it finally begins. This project was created in FLORA as part of the FLORA Museum Challenge, using works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access collection as the foundation for the world and visual language of the story. Artworks from The Met that inspired this work: Marble statue of a lion Greek ca. 400–390 BCE https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248140 Marble statue of a wounded Amazon Roman 1st–2nd century CE https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/253373 Angel Italian, Naples late 18th–early 19th century https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/206717 A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish ca. 1635 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437526 Bronze statuette of Apollo Greek ca. 500 BCE https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247971 Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino), Italian ca. 1497 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435614 Marble statue of an old woman Roman 14–68 CE https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248132 Ruins of a Temple by a Lake Etienne Allegrain, French https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/334748 The original artworks belong to The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access collection. Built with @FLORA AI #FLORAMuseum
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Cover image for Before Nexio : Search Filter Compare Get overwhelmed After Nexio
Before Nexio : Search Filter Compare Get overwhelmed After Nexio : Explain what you need Have a conversation Make a confident decision The future of shopping is not more options It's better understanding Built with @Base44 https://nexio-shop-scene.base44.app
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