Never Look
Down
From a thought to reality: a fully AI-creative-directed short film. Conceived, directed, and produced entirely solo — using Midjourney for visual development, Kling, Clawbot, and Nano Banana for AI video generation, Adobe Creative Suite for compositing and finishing, and Hugging Face models for generative elements that pushed the work beyond what any single tool could achieve alone. No crew. No client. No infrastructure. Just the film that needed to be made.
When Technology Catches Up With Imagination
In 2025, what once required a studio, a budget, and an army of collaborators could finally live inside one person with a vision and the tools to execute it. Never Look Down was the proof — a short film that existed only because the technology had finally caught up.
The piece was created in direct response to the 2025 LA fires — as an act of contribution to a community that gave fifteen years of a creative life, and as a tribute to the Do family and the countless others who lost everything. Art as the only honest answer when words aren’t enough.
Fifteen Years of Other People’s Visions
Underneath the fires, this film is about something older. The artist who spent years making brilliant work for everyone else — for brands, for briefs, for other people’s visions — while his own voice waited.
Never Look Down is what happens when that voice finally gets the room.
Solo Production Stack
Concept, direction, generation, compositing, edit, and final output — every stage handled by one person across a hybrid AI/traditional pipeline.
Featuring KAWS
Never Look Down features design and visual development rooted in work originally created for KAWS collectible figures via Dispatch. Concept sketches, 3D modeling in Rhino, and turnaround renders — bridging art and commerce for one of the most recognized names in contemporary art.
The design language developed for KAWS — from top-down proportion studies to production-ready CG renders — became part of the visual foundation for the film.
Concept sketches — top-down proportions and form language
Final production render — KAWS via Dispatch