VFX

Genjutsu Experiments

Same camera, same motion, a different world. A dog becomes a dragon, a sneaker becomes a lobster and a talking head becomes an alien.

Genjutsu keeps a clip’s camera and motion and rebuilds what it shows. I ran more than thirty logged tests across eighteen clips to learn exactly where it breaks, then wrote the findings into a playbook: which mode suits a recast and which suits a product swap, why timestamps work better than shot numbers, and how to shoot a source clip so the transformation lands.

The result is a set of before-and-afters, and a method I now use on client footage.

Made for Higgsfield’s Genjutsu contest in September 2026. In each clip the original is at the bottom and the result is at the top.

Client
Higgsfield Genjutsu contest
Year
2026
Role
Director, VFX, Research
Tools
Higgsfield Genjutsu, Seedance
Sneaker to lobster, a product spot
Talking head to alien ad
One throw through history
Anime and live action