MPHX/001 · PUBLISHED
For All Humankind
We don’t chase the stars to escape the Earth.
ABSTRACT
Sky lanterns have carried wishes into the dark for centuries. We wanted to see that ritual at planetary scale – not paper and flame, but metal, fire, and faith. Starship as lantern. Launch as offering. Humanity lifting light into the void.
The spot follows lanterns rising from every corner of Earth – remote islands, frozen frontiers, mountain peaks – until they become something else entirely. Metal. Fire. A rocket ascending. The same human impulse, expressed through engineering.
METHOD
A fully AI-generated 45-second spot. Keyframes generated in Midjourney and refined in Photoshop, then animated through Kling, Minimax, Runway, and others – all orchestrated through Flora’s node-based pipeline. The script, voiceover, and music are AI-generated as well.
What required traditional compositing was the craft: layer builds, color correction, glow, cleanup. AI gave us 75% of the image. We added the rest.