Back to work
A lone figure in a studio facing a curved LED wall showing the reel’s scenes
Portfolio Reel — AI & Generative

Sixty Seconds

Fifteen scenes, sixty seconds, four seconds apiece. A range piece built to prove one thing: that a single generative pipeline can hold product, animation, fashion, wildlife, aerospace and creature work to the same commercial standard.

Role
Direction · AI pipeline
Type
Self-directed reel
Output
60s · 15 scenes
Year
2026
A silhouetted figure emerging from darkness, edged in rim light with particles drifting through the beam
Portfolio reel — 60 seconds 1920 × 1080 — generative
01The brief

Fifteen genres. Sixty seconds. One consistent hand.

Four seconds each, no filler. A megacity at sunrise, a Rolex crown in macro, a sprinter leaving the blocks, a tiger walking straight down the lens, a rocket lighting inside its gantry — fifteen briefs that would normally take fifteen different crews.

The constraint was deliberate. Holding one look — deep charcoal blacks, restrained teal shadows, warm amber highlights — across fifteen unrelated subjects is harder than nailing any single one of them, and it is the part that actually transfers to client work.

01

Storyboarded before a frame was generated

Every scene locked to a four-second slot with its framing and camera move defined up front. The board drove generation, not the other way round.

02

Cut for momentum

Paced so no scene outstays its four seconds and each one lands on a different energy — macro stillness against high-speed tracking, so the reel keeps accelerating instead of settling.

03

One grade across every subject

A fixed palette and light logic applied to macro, aerial, track-level and interior work alike, so the reel holds together as one piece of photography.

02Storyboard — 15 scenes

The board, shot for shot.

A silhouetted figure emerging from darkness, edged in rim light with particles drifting through the beam
01 Hero Opening 0–4s

A figure emerges from darkness; particles and rim light establish intrigue.

Framing
Extreme close-up
Camera
Slow push-in
An aerial view of a dense futuristic city at sunrise, towers receding into haze
02 Futuristic Environment 4–8s

A sunrise megacity establishes technological scale and world-building range.

Framing
Aerial ultra-wide
Camera
Descending drone fly-through
Extreme macro of a Rolex crown winder against the fluted bezel, polished steel in near-monochrome
03 Luxury Product 8–12s

A Rolex crown fills the frame — knurled edge, coronet, fluted bezel raking away into shadow.

Framing
Extreme macro, 100mm
Camera
Controlled rotating reveal
A model in burgundy couture crossing a vast concrete plaza, the train trailing behind
04 Fashion Editorial 12–16s

A couture model crosses monumental architecture; the fabric drives the motion.

Framing
Low full-body tracking
Camera
Slow-motion lateral track
A sprinter mid-launch from the starting blocks, spikes biting the track
05 Sports Performance 16–20s

A sprinter explodes from the blocks — muscle tension, sweat, spike contact.

Framing
Track-level close-wide
Camera
High-speed lateral tracking
A humanoid robot in a laboratory cradle, panel light across its face
06 Sci-Fi Character 20–24s

A humanoid robot awakens inside an advanced laboratory cradle.

Framing
Three-quarter close-up
Camera
Subtle orbital move
An animated boy in a blue shirt standing over a football in a dusty backyard pitch at sunset, bottles and sticks marking the goal
07 Animation — The Dream Kick 24–28s

A boy squares up over the ball on a backyard pitch of dust and bottle-markers, last light behind the hills.

Framing
Eye-level wide
Camera
Locked-off hold
A cliffside house opening onto an infinity pool above the ocean
08 Architecture 28–32s

A cliffside home opens toward an infinity pool and ocean horizon.

Framing
Interior architectural wide
Camera
Glide from interior to exterior
A Bengal tiger walking toward camera through jungle foliage in shafts of light
09 Wildlife 32–36s

A Bengal tiger prowls toward camera through jungle foliage and god-rays.

Framing
Medium telephoto, 200mm
Camera
Eye-level slow push-in
A ballerina lacing a pointe shoe in the wings, a second dancer lit on stage beyond
10 Ballet Backstage 36–40s

A ballerina laces her pointe shoe in the wings as a second dancer takes the light.

Framing
Medium-wide stage-side
Camera
Slow dolly forward
A car half graphite wireframe, half photoreal bodywork, seen in profile
11 Transformation 40–44s

Graphite design lines transform into a fully realized photoreal vehicle.

Framing
Three-quarter vehicle profile
Camera
Elegant orbit with morph
A flower opening in extreme macro, droplets on the petals and pollen suspended in the air
12 Macro Bloom 44–48s

A flower unfolds in accelerated slow motion; droplets slide, pollen hangs.

Framing
Extreme botanical macro
Camera
Slow microscopic push-in
A silver heavy-lift rocket igniting inside a steel launch gantry
13 Aerospace Launch 48–52s

A silver heavy-lift rocket ignites inside a towering launch gantry.

Framing
Wide 24mm, low angle
Camera
Slow push-in with tilt-up
A towering moss-covered forest creature standing among redwoods in dawn mist
14 Creature Reveal 52–56s

A colossal moss-and-bark forest guardian emerges among redwoods in dawn mist.

Framing
Wide 24mm, low angle
Camera
Slow push-in
A lone figure in a studio facing a curved LED wall showing the reel’s scenes
15 The Creator 56–60s

A creative director faces a modular LED wall showing the reel’s worlds, in a real studio.

Framing
Wide 35mm, eye-level
Camera
Slow pull-back
03Process & credits

Boarded as fifteen four-second beats, generated frame by frame against a fixed palette, then cut for pace. Sixty seconds, fifteen disciplines, one consistent hand.

Direction · Pipeline
RISCA
Storyboard
15 scenes · 16:9 · 60 seconds
Generative production
Higgsfield
Year
2026
Work with me

Building something at the edge of AI and media?

Get in touch