Oct 31, 2025
Blender
Generative AI (Flora, RunwayML)
The Signal
a 3D and AIGC animation created by Jaye.D
This is the trailer for "The Signal".
Following a mysterious transmission from a long-lost space station, an astronaut steps into a blinding light and falls into a time loop stitched together by liminal spaces, only to realize he has become the signal itself.
Technically, Signal is not generated directly from text prompts. Instead, I first construct a set of key still frames: core images of Chase, the interior of the station, and a range of liminal spaces. These stills—designed through drawing, collage, and compositing—serve as “perceptual nodes” that are then fed into an image-to-video AI model. The model extrapolates motion, noise, and lighting changes between frames, producing short temporal segments with a built-in sense of hallucination. In this workflow, AI functions less as a simple image generator and more as a “time interpolator” or hallucination amplifier, translating static images into flowing time while injecting its own instability and drift.