Mateus Oliveira - AI Artist | ContraWork by Mateus Oliveira
Mateus  Oliveira

Mateus Oliveira

Creative director crafting cinematic AI-powered brand films.

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One Director, Multiple Worlds — AI Spec Film A cinematic AI spec film exploring how one director can move between entirely different visual worlds. The same character transitions through action, lifestyle, comedy, and fashion — each universe with its own atmosphere, cinematography, and narrative language. The goal was to demonstrate what directors can create with AI today: not just isolated generated shots, but controlled transitions between genres, consistent characters, and cohesive visual storytelling. I developed the concept, creative direction, visual worlds, AI production, editing, pacing, and sound design.
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A realistic AI presenter video created for short-form social media. The piece focuses on natural lip-sync, subtle facial expressions, clean captions, and an organic creator-style presentation designed to feel native to vertical platforms. I handled the visual direction, AI character creation, lip-sync workflow, editing, pacing, subtitles, and final delivery.
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A documentary-style opening sequence developed for “NeoConventional cu Ileana Gheorghiu,” built around an atmospheric editorial visual language. The piece moves through maritime environments, rural landscapes, interview imagery, and cinematic visual details, creating a cohesive introduction suited to a documentary format. I handled the full production pipeline, including visual direction, AI scene generation, motion design, editing, color grading, and sound design.
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Cover image for The Archive of Echoes —
The Archive of Echoes — Original AI Short Film “The Archive of Echoes” is an entirely original AI-generated short film that I conceived, wrote, directed, and produced from scratch. The story, characters, world-building, visual language, and musical identity were all developed by me. The film is built around one core idea: every book is a cage. The story follows a librarian responsible for an archive of parallel universes. By opening the wrong book, he accidentally releases a reptilian creature imprisoned inside a legendary world — revealing that this is not the first time their paths have crossed. Before generating the final scenes, I developed a complete visual continuity system for the film, including character sheets, prop sheets, and environment sheets. This pre-production process allowed me to maintain consistency across the archive, the books, the costumes, the creatures, and the recurring visual elements throughout the story. I handled the full creative pipeline: concept development, screenwriting, world-building, visual development, scene generation, editing, original music production, and sound design. Drawing on my background in music production, I used Ableton Live and generative audio tools to shape the film’s sonic identity. This project was conceived as the first chapter of a larger original cinematic universe. https://youtu.be/FY85-AUFp7c?si=RekWjuOfQmelIfdx
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