This project started with the music and the title: Places We Felt Home by Yanson. I didn’t want to illustrate “home” in a literal way, so no obvious houses, family clichés, or cozy tropes. Instead, I was interested in the fragments that actually make up a life: travels, streets, fields, apartments, moments in-between. The AI collage style came from trying to represent those fragments visually, like layered snapshots from different times and places that somehow belong to the same story.
As the piece progresses, the collage shifts through time, destinations, and life phases. Early frames feel more scattered, like individual lives in motion, moving through separate paths. Gradually, the visuals begin to align around one central thread: the moment you meet “your person” and everything quietly reorients. From that point on, it’s no longer two parallel timelines but one shared trajectory. The couple becomes a constant, and the places around them keep evolving, showing how “home” moves with you rather than staying fixed.
The main challenges were keeping the couple visually coherent across many AI generations, avoiding a chaotic “moodboard” look, and preserving a clear emotional arc without relying on literal storytelling. I also had to constantly balance detail and simplicity so the viewer can feel the progression of a life shared, without the visuals overpowering the music. In the end, the piece is about one thing: how a single meeting can quietly redirect your entire map of places that feel like home.
Built With
- capcut
- hailuo
- kling
- krea
- midjourney
- topazlabs
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