Solara.
An AI-generated short film set in a post-collapse desert world, following a lone survivor with kinetic powers through the ruins of a fallen civilisation.
00 · Overview
Survival, power and solitude in a fallen world
Solara is an AI-generated short film set in a post-collapse desert world. A lone woman with kinetic abilities navigates the remnants of a fallen civilisation: crashed spacecraft half-buried in sand, watchtowers draped in tattered flags, mechanical horses at the edge of the dunes. The film explores survival, power, and solitude through a cinematic language of wide establishing shots, extreme close-ups, and dynamic levitation sequences.
01 · Challenge
One character, every kind of shot
Maintaining visual consistency for a single lead character across wildly different shot types — extreme macro portrait, wide environmental, dynamic levitation, and intimate dramatic moments — all within a cohesive warm ochre palette, without the frames feeling generated.
02 · Approach
Anchored in a desert epic
Art direction anchored in desert-epic references with a sci-fi layer. The protagonist's layered desert robes serve as the visual constant across all shots and distances. Each image was iterated for lighting coherence, costume accuracy, and environmental scale before moving to motion.
03 · Solution
Concept to cinematic frame
The concept and world are developed with Gemini, then cinematic stills and motion sequences are generated with Google Whisk and Veo3. The result is a series of production-ready frames spanning character close-ups, wide world-building shots, action sequences, and dramatic scene work.
04 · Outcomes
Status
In production.
Medium
Cinematic stills and motion generated with Google Whisk and Veo3.
Year
Current active work.
Format
Post-collapse desert sci-fi.
05 · Gallery
