Woven

"Woven" is a 3-minute, emotionally resonant science-fiction short that tells the story of an astronaut who discovers a living, sentient planet.

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With "Woven," I wanted to explore the profound and deeply human feeling of 'Fernweh', a nostalgic ache for a place you've never known. The story of Elara Vance is a cautionary tale about humanity's capacity for destruction, but it is also a hopeful story about an individual's power to choose connection over exploitation.

Woven was built on a foundation of fully open-source tools and models running on a local hardware machine.

The film's aesthetic was born from a love for classic 90s anime, and I used a custom-trained Lora to bring that specific, semi-realistic style to life. The creative process began with a conceptual collaboration with Gemini Pro, which helped lay the foundation for the story and its key emotional beats. From there, the workflow was built from the sound up. I first generated the core voiceover using Vibe Voice, which set the emotional pacing for the entire piece, followed by a custom score from the ACE Step model. With this audio blueprint, each scene was storyboarded. Base images were then crafted using the Flux.dev model, and with a custom Lora for stylistic consistency. Workflows like Flux USO were essential for maintaining character coherence across different angles and scenes, with Qwen Image Edit used for targeted adjustments.

Assembling a rough cut was a crucial step, allowing me to refine the timing and flow before enhancing the visuals with inpainting, outpainting, and targeted Photoshop corrections. Finally, these still images were brought to life using the Wan2.2 video model, utilizing a variety of techniques to control motion and animate facial expressions.

The scale of this iterative process was immense. Out of 595 generated images, 190 animated clips, and 12 voiceover takes, the final film was sculpted down to 39 meticulously chosen shots, a single voiceover, and one music track, all unified with sound design and color correction in After Effects and Premiere Pro.

"Woven" is an experiment in using these incredible new tools not just to generate spectacle, but to craft an intimate, character-driven narrative with a soul.

What's next for Woven? Maybe expanding on the universe I have built!

Built With

  • ace
  • comfyui
  • flux
  • opensource
  • vibevoice
  • wan
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