LUCID — AI Production Pipeline by Simone Paradiso

Cinema-grade production, from brief to final cut — in days, not months.

I'm Simone Paradiso. LUCID is my AI production pipeline — a complete video production concept where direction, prompting, image systems, editing, sound design and delivery move as one continuous process, in one pair of hands.

For agencies and brands this means cinematic campaigns, social-first reels, short films and vertical formats delivered at a fraction of traditional cost and time — with full creative direction and a visual language rooted in 90s and 2000s film culture.

Everything on this page was generated, directed and finished inside the pipeline — including the tools it runs on.

VERTICAL FASHION

00 / IMAGE SYSTEM Bloom Protocol

01 / VERTICAL Lucid

FILMS

Go Home — four teenagers in a dark industrial corridor

02 / SHORT MOVIE — 14 MIN — REPLY AI FILM FESTIVAL FINALIST Go Home

Written, generated and edited by one person: a standalone short movie with original sound design, original music direction and complete cinematic assembly. English subtitles.

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Simone Paradiso on stage presenting Go Home at the Reply AI Film Festival — ON STAGE WITH GO HOME — REPLY AI FILM FESTIVAL, VENICE 2026

FESTIVAL / 2026

Go Home is one of the ten finalists of the Reply AI Film Festival.

Selected among the top 10 films of the 2026 competition and presented on stage in Venice, in front of the festival audience. A fourteen-minute film made end to end inside the LUCID pipeline — the proof that one director and the right system can deliver festival-level cinema.

GRUB — The baddest creature in the universe

03 / SHORT MOVIE — DARK FANTASY — 19 MIN GRUB

On a stripped planet, a human dealer and the last of his kind sell the memory of Earth. A dark fantasy short conceived as the pilot of a series — one planet per arc, every world with its own look. English subtitles.

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CEUTA — two figures walking along a road through cactus fields

04 / SHORT MOVIE — DRAMA — 18 MIN CEUTA

Europe is close enough to see — that is what makes it unbearable. A drama inspired by the Ceuta border crisis of 30–31 July 2026, online six weeks after the facts. Spoken in darija and French, English subtitles.

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05 / SHORT MOVIE 1200 AD

Medieval battle at cinematic scale: atmosphere, mud and steel — an AI production directed like a period epic.

SOCIAL REELS / SELECTED WORK

01—04

06 / SOCIAL REEL War & Chaos

07 / SOCIAL REEL Don't Be

08 / SOCIAL REEL Trust

09 / SHOWREEL Hey Human!

PROPRIETARY TOOLS / R&D

The pipeline runs on instruments I build myself.

10 / BROWSER TOOL

LUCID LAB

A dither & motion design studio, built from scratch, that runs entirely in the browser — no install, no license, no plugins. Load any image or video and transform it through 50+ engineered dither algorithms and signature effects: Orb Flow, Particle Dissolve, Neon Trace, Matrix rain. Still frames become moving loops, every parameter is tunable in real time, and the result exports as clean SVG or WebM — ready for an edit, a social post or a screen installation.

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11 / BROWSER TOOL

LUCID FX

A real-time video effects engine built on WebGL2 — professional GPU processing inside a browser tab. Import your footage and stack cinematic, engineered effects: pixel sort, datamosh, time warp, echo trails, cyber tracking, liquid distortion. Everything previews at full frame rate while you tune it, and the final result exports as ready-to-post video. What normally takes After Effects, plugins and render time happens live, in seconds.

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CUSTOM TOOLS MEAN CUSTOM LOOKS — SIGNATURE EFFECTS NO TEMPLATE CAN REPRODUCE, BUILT FOR THE PIPELINE AND APPLIED TO CLIENT WORK.