AETHEL — THE SOLSTICE ENGINE
A celestial timepiece transforms into a 15-tier sapphire evergreen—reimagining seasonal luxury through haute horlogerie, architectural scale and procedural visual storytelling. A distinctive fusion of engineering, material science and cinematic...
Dark luxury, Halloween edition. 🖤 Obsidian textures, spectral glass, liquid-orange lighting and kinetic typography—fully in their element.
Around 6.5 GB of production data shaped into one 20-second reel, built with Antigravity, Blender and FFmpeg.
Locked in for 6 hours straight cooking up Stage Trapdoor—an exploration of Where Aluminium Meets Ink and the power of pure tunnel vision, warping out the noise to hyper-focus on one craft at a time.
Built different from the ground up using Blender, Canvas, FontTools, and FFmpeg...
The Evolution:
Took our initial Blender motion test and fully cooked it into a cinema-grade 4K masterwork. Obsidian micro-textures, authentic Kodak 2383 film science, and custom optical halation hit completely different on the big screen.
Built a dynamic multi-viewport editorial design showcase in Figma, brought to life through custom JavaScript and CSS animation pipelines with high-fidelity FFmpeg rendering to explore spatial hierarchy in UX research.