Titans: Land, Oil, and Power

Inspiration

We were inspired by early industrial America, where a few powerful men tried to control land and oil—and by the idea of one woman who simply refuses to sell.

What it does

Titans: Land, Oil, and Power is a short character-driven confrontation: two businessmen arrive with a “kind” offer, and the landowner calmly tears through their trap deal and sends them away.

How we built it

We focused on a single scene with clear beats: arrival, offer, pressure, refusal, and their threat to return, then built it with AI image/video tools and edited it for 9:16 viewing in CapCut with AI-assisted sound.

Challenges we ran into

Keeping costumes, faces and the homestead consistent across different models, and making the power imbalance clear using mostly glances, pauses and blocking, not long dialogue.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We created a compact scene that clearly shows who holds the money and who actually holds the line, and a visual style that feels period-appropriate yet readable on a phone screen.

What we learned

We learned how sensitive AI workflows are to historical detail: small changes in prompts can break period accuracy in clothes, houses or props.
We also saw that for historical scenes, clear visual rules (materials, silhouettes, colors, tech level) matter more than complexity—once those are locked, the world feels believable even in short vertical clips.

What's next for Titans: Land, Oil, and Power

We’d like to extend this into more moments around the same piece of land: legal pressure, new “offers,” and how the wider community reacts to her decision.

Built With

• capcut
• dreamina
• elevenlabs-sfx
• elevenlabs-tts
• flux
• ideogram
• imagen
• kling
• ltx-studio
• luma
• minimax-tts
• openai
• pixverse
• qwen
• runway
• thinksound
• topaz-upscale
• veo
• wan