FLOAM WORLD
It’s a Floam World and we’re all just floating in it.
Combining humor and absurdity to create surreal narratives across film, fashion, and art using 3D media and Generative AI.
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Everyone is Chair
Everyone Is Chair is a short film about a woman whose obsession with inflatable chairs leads to a bizarre phenomenon.
Year: 2024
Tools: Runway Gen-2
2024 TRIBECA FESTIVAL AI Shorts Screening
Welcome to Shell
This mini-series explores the terrible “Monstrosities” that happen to lovely natural shells taken from their habitat —mostly found on online marketplaces. Because in FLOAM WORLD there are consequences to be had for hot-glue gunning our cutest creatures.
Year: 2024
Tools: Runway Gen-3, Suno, Elevenlabs, 3D Assets
The Collector
Ellie, a gifted yet struggling sculptor, secures a coveted artist residency with NovaForm in Upstate New York. NovaForm, celebrated for merging technology and art, sculpts lifelike creations that blur the line between art and reality. Ellie's initial excitement turns as she discovers their true nature.
Year: 2023
Tools: Runway Gen-2, 3D Assets
OFFICIAL FINALIST Runway GEN:48 competition
R U There?
R U There? is a 4-part video series that explores the meaning of connection. The series follows a bioluminescent whale using echolocation, whale songs and vocalizations as it journeys through different worlds in search of deep connections.
Year: 2024
Tools: Runway Gen-2, Runway Gen-3, Dall-e3, Midjourney, magnific.ai, and 3D tools.
The Call, Part 1
The City, Part 2
The Desert, Part 3
The Answer, Part 4
ExoEmo
ExoEmo is a speculative apparel line that integrates exoskeleton technology with human emotion.
Embedded electrodes monitor the wearer’s authentic emotional state, allowing the exoskeleton to respond and make decisions that move the wearer into action, always in alignment with their best interest.
Year: 2023
Tools: Generative AI, 3D Assets
FloamWave Styler
Ads for a fictitious hair styling product used to create enormous volume and style. Things take a dark turn as customers grow to love their product and discover they can’t live without their Floam Wave Styler.
Year: 2023
Tools: Generative AI, 3D Assets
FloamWave Styler Part 1
FloamWave Styler Part 2
Delivery Included
Delivery Included is a film that imagines a fictional ad for a puffer jacket, with a playful twist on the term "delivery included." The film features drone-to-doorstep delivery, even if that doorstep is perched high up in a canyon.
Created using Runway's Gen-3 Early Access Text to Video and relying solely on text prompts, the film explores cloth simulations, weightlessness, and tests how the new model handles 3D textured letters.
Year: June 2024
Tools: Runway Gen-3
“Shiny whales, puffy clothing, surreal fluidic creatures with hair, lots of hair. This is @floamworld, Leilanni Todd’s playground with underlying messages. The raw material it’s all made of is Floam, a fictional mix of technological waste and ocean plastic.”
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Caterpillar Core
Why is it that some of the cutest critters can also pack a deadly punch? Caterpillar Core is a digital apparel line that takes inspiration from the patterns and textures of nature's adorable yet potentially deadly creatures.
Cute, but deadly.
Year: 2023
Tools: Generative AI, 3D Animation
Pocket Pet Floam
Pocket Pet Floam is a project that reimagines the concept of the pet rock—a playful nod to the absurdity of marketing literal dust as a product.
Unlike its inanimate predecessor, Pocket Pet Floam is sentient, offering a quirky twist on the original idea. This small, animated companion provides both good and bad advice, adding an element of unpredictability and humor. The project explores themes of consumer culture, value, and the peculiar ways we form connections with the objects we own.
Text-to-speech just released, and this was a way of experimenting with the tools.
Year: 2023
Tools: Runway Text-to-Speech. Gen-2, Generative AI, 3D Software
Pocket Pet Floam
Pocket Pet Floam Teaser
Solid as a Rock (Pocket Pet Floam LOVE this song)
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Seabird
"Seabirds" are mutant creatures made from discarded ocean plastics and debris. This film captures a moment of exhilaration and glimpse at freedom.
Year: 2023
Tools: Generative AI, CGI, 3D Animation
Flotsam
The Flotsam Spring/Summer 2023 collection takes inspiration from the marine terms ‘Flotsam and Jetsam’, which describe discarded items found in our waterways and on our beaches.
The collection transforms ocean plastics and debris into wearable garments and accessories using 3D printing and upcycling technologies.
The aim is to raise awareness about the critical issues of pollution and climate change, specifically the impact on our water through sustainable fashion practices.
Kiss the Fish!
A cheeky dating game set in an alternate future reality where humans and aquatic life coexist.
Year: 2023
Tools: Generative AI