Kittl, VEO & the Art of Animated Text

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Back to regular programming… From static words to moving stories, this week is all about text in motion. We’re spotlighting Kittl, the AI design tool that brings branding into real-world context, plus a quick hack to animate your text using Reve and MidJourney. You’ll meet filmmaker and technologist Albert Bozesan, explore the cinematic power of VEO 3.1, and settle into the ambient expanse of Carbon Based Life Forms Radio. Let’s get into it.

Feature of the Week: Kittl

Kittl is where branding meets real-world context. Its AI tools make it effortless to place logos, typography, and brand assets directly onto lifelike images, and make them look like they belong there.

Smartboards turn the creative process into a living workspace: you can test dozens of brand directions side by side, refine styles, and see how your designs feel in the real world, from packaging to storefronts to digital campaigns.

With Kittl’s background removal, image cleanup, and vector AI, designs stay sharp and consistent wherever you place them. It’s design that moves fast, is flexible, and built for creators who want their ideas to live beyond the canvas.

Creative Hack: Text Animations

Want to bring your text designs to life? Reve and Midjourney make it effortless. Here’s how:

• Start in Reve: create your text image exactly how you want it to look. This will serve as your first and last frame for the animation

• Next, upload it to Midjourney and prompt the AI to animate it. You can guide the motion and prompt a style that fits your project, whether it’s clean corporate, comic book bold, or retro graphic animation

• Midjourney then handles the rest, generating smooth transitions that feel intentional and professional

In seconds, your text moves with style. This is perfect for titles, intros, or social videos that need motion with personality.

Community Spotlight: Albert Bozesan

Albert Bozesan is a filmmaker and creative technologist exploring where storytelling meets AI. As Creative Director at Storybook Studios, an AI-first media house, he’s redefining how film and technology come together to create new forms of narrative. Before AI, Albert built his career writing and producing award-winning series like the Amazon and Audible Original Schund und Schmutz, and creating media content for brands like Paramount+, fritz-kola, and ProSiebenSat.1. Today, he channels that experience into experimenting with tools like ComfyUI, Blender, and DaVinci to push the limits of visual storytelling. Blending a background in filmmaking with a curiosity for emerging tech, Albert is one to watch.

This Week’s Flow State: Carbon Based Life Forms

Immerse yourself in the expansive soundscape of Carbon Based Life Forms Radio on Spotify. A deep blend of ambient electronic textures, spacious downtempo rhythms, and reflective instrumentation creates a rich, immersive backdrop for work or contemplation. Whether you’re coding, writing, or simply letting your mind wander, this playlist offers profound calm without ever fading into the background. Press play and drift into the ambient horizon.

AI Trend: VEO 3.1

Meet VEO 3.1, the next evolution in AI video generation, giving creators cinematic control like never before. With richer realism, natural audio, and enhanced image-to-video capabilities, VEO 3.1 transforms imagination into motion. Create scenes from multiple reference images, define start and end frames, or extend clips into full sequences with seamless transitions and real-world physics. Now part of Flow, VEO 3.1 lets you reimagine any shot, refining elements while preserving perfect scale, lighting, and sound. From subtle details to cinematic moments, this update pushes creativity beyond limits.

AI vs. Reality: Can You Tell the Difference?

This week, we’ve got a brand-new pair of images to test your perception again. Think you can tell which is AI-made and which is the real deal? Take your guess and we’ll reveal the answer in the next issue!

Last week, we kicked off our AI vs. Reality face-off with some nature shots, and now for the moment of truth, if you guessed the right one was the real deal, you got it right. The left image was created with MidJourney showing off the program’s impressive ability to generate natural images.

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Stay curious,
David and Ross