We were asked for a distinctive, high-impact video opening for the company's 2026 website. We were free to use whichever AI tool we chose. The video should deliver a strong attention-grabbing visual element behind the typography instead of a standard production reel intro.
The sequence moves from a vibrant underwater world through ocean life to a distant island, across its wildlife-filled landscapes, and finally transitions upward into a city where the camera zooms into a giant screen revealing the showreel.
The main challenge was to integrate the several videos generated in Runway into one cohesive sequence. Each of those videos were created through prompting images (first and last frames) as well as prompting text as main direction to the motion and camera movement desired.
AI Image GENERATION TOOLS:
Krea, Flux, Nano Banana, Photoshop, Chatgpt, Runway
Underwater
"Camera pans through a vibrant underwater environment, revealing corals and colorful marine life."
"Camera pans through a vibrant underwater environment, revealing corals and colorful marine life."
Surface
"Fish break the surface as an island appears in the distance."
The first idea of the fish breaking the surface was later abandoned. The obvious challenge was the seamless integration between shots, where the water/fish elements were too volatile for the AI video generation to process.
Island Beach
"The camera reaches the island’s beach, featuring exotic birds."
"The camera reaches the island’s beach, featuring exotic birds."
An initial idea of a close-up of one of the birds flying through was not integrating sufficiently with the rest of the video. A brief connection fly-by between beach and lake/forest ended in a better result (last image, below).
Island Vegetation
"Movement continues into dense vegetation with colorful tigers and leopards."
"Movement continues into dense vegetation with colorful tigers and leopards."
The early idea of having the bird fly-by near this lake proved difficult because of the bird's position.
Ended up having the bird only carry us to the lake and disappear to reveal the clearing were the iridescent leopard would appear (last two images, below).
Transition to City & Showreel
"The camera pans upward from the island and mountains, zooming into a distant city and finally into a giant screen playing the showreel."
