Roger Rangel

Roger RangelMay 5, 2026

I gave Luma 1000 years of forgotten history. And it didn't just generate. It understood. I'm building a cinematic series on the Slavic and Baltic nations — the people who stood between civilizations and refused to disappear. This film was built entirely with Luma's Uni-1: a multimodal reasoning model that thinks before it renders. Not just a generator. A creative collaborator that holds context, reads intent, and keeps your world coherent across hundreds of generations. Viking raids from the north. Mongol fire from the east. Teutonic crusades from the west. Ottoman expansion from the south. Pagan gods watching it all burn. These nations fought on every front, for centuries, and history barely remembers their names. The visual challenge is brutal: every shot needs period-accurate architecture, ethnic context, correct costumes, historically grounded characters. One wrong generation breaks the entire world. Most AI tools fail here because they generate. They don't think. Uni-1 is different. It understands intention, responds to direction, and thinks before it renders a single pixel. Give it a reference board and it locks your world — characters stay consistent, style holds, cultural context doesn't drift. Intelligent. Directable. Cultured. That's not a tagline, it's literally what historical filmmaking requires. And as of today, it's available via API. You can wire this reasoning core into every stage of your pipeline — from story research to final VFX — and build cinematic worlds that actually stay coherent. Less artificial. More intelligent. Build with Uni-1: https://lnkd.in/g9xuWNkQ 🔮 If you're a filmmaker, developer, or creative director — drop a comment! Which nation's history surprised you most in the film? What would you build if you had access to this reasoning model in your pipeline? I'm documenting the full workflow — prompting strategy, animation pipeline, post-production — happy to share specifics if there's interest. #AIFilmmaking #LumaAI #AIFilms #AIAgents #Poland #Baltics #AIHistory #Uni1

Roger RangelMar 12, 2026

🎬 Episode 1 — An AI Historical Espionage Series The story follows Karol — a man arriving in the mysterious city of Harbin in the early 20th century, after escaping Siberia… and unknowingly entering a world of espionage. But this project is not just about storytelling. It’s also about exploring a new format of historical cinema powered by AI workflows. Creating this episode required combining multiple techniques: • 3D worldbuilding with Raelume • prompt engineering and cinematic direction Google • node-based AI workflows with Weavy • generative video experimentation across several tools Special thanks to ByteDance for giving me access to Seedance 2.0 — which will appear in future episodes. This project was also inspired by several creators pushing AI filmmaking forward. Last year, I was deeply inspired by the work of Krystian Wydro, Matt Subieta, PhD and the team at Muzeum II Wojny Światowej w Gdańsku, who showed how powerful AI can be for historical storytelling. From a technical and narrative perspective, Kavan Cardoza’s series The Chronicles of Bone also pushed me to experiment with what episodic AI cinema could become. And shoutout to PJ Accetturo whose films last year helped inspire the visual direction ✌ This episode is just the beginning. The goal is to explore a new type of AI-driven historical series combining: • cinema • geopolitics • generative storytelling • and experimental filmmaking workflows. If you’re working in AI film, creative tools, or historical storytelling — I’d love to hear your thoughts. Voice performance: AI-generated voice (style inspired by Mirosław Zbrojewicz) using ElevenLabs 🌎 Built by one creator using multiple GenAI workflows. Episode 2 coming soon. #AI #AIFilmmaking #AIHistory #Polska #Poland #AIFilms

Roger RangelJul 16, 2026

$100K in prizes to make an ad for a product that doesn't exist 🦄 This is my entry for Runway's Another Big Ad Contest: a 20-second spot for VERO Blood Orange, a soda that doesn't exist, set inside a variety show that never aired, somewhere in Brazil 🇧🇷 The cast demanded scale, so we hired accordingly: 🦓 A zebra frontman in a terry-cloth tracksuit 🦁 A lion crooner with a gold medallion 🦛 A hippo approving from the studio jacuzzi 🦎 Two iguanas with better singing skills than me 🦒 And one diva giraffe who only drinks through a straw Every generative video shot was made inside Runway. The hardest shot? Getting a soda to be consistent across all frames. The easiest? The hippo. He was born for television. What I keep learning with every AI Commercial: the model gives you the pixels, but the comedy lives in the edit: the deadpan hold, the cut that comes one beat too late, the predator who never quite reaches the gazelle. Think you can out-weird a dancing zebra? Another Big Ad Contest is live on Runway now: https://lnkd.in/gFuDXDfD 🔮   Submissions close July 31.  Get 30% off 1 month of any runway plan using code ANOTHER  💰 $100K in prizes — $50K grand prize, 15 winners — to make an ad for a product that doesn't exist. Which cast member gets a spin-off? Wrong answers only👇 Made in partnership with Runway #RunwayBigAdContest #AIAdvertising #Runway #MadeWithRunway