“Drive Like Your Future Depends On It” is a self-initiated experimental music-video-style ad created to explore how generative AI could support fast, high-impact creative production. This piece reimagines the experience of learning to drive across different decades, from the 70s to today, combining AI-generated imagery, an original AI-generated song, and traditional motion design polish.The experiment aligned with Aceable’s growing interest in AI-powered workflows and demonstrated how a single creator could concept, write, art-direct, and produce a fully AI-assisted video from scratch.

Aceable was beginning to explore AI as a potential solution for faster, more cost-efficient creative production, but had not yet established processes, tools, or expectations for AI-driven storytelling.

As a motion designer deeply interested in AI’s creative potential, I saw an opportunity to prototype something ambitious:
Could a single person develop an entire ad, story, visuals, lyrics, and soundtrack, using AI as the production engine?

One unexpected challenge came from the “camera motion” inside AI-generated footage. Because Sora simulates perspective rather than capturing real optical movement, certain frames can distort during zooms or tracked moments. To place the Aceable app screen onto the phone convincingly, I manually motion-tracked the shot and fixed subtle distortions frame by frame, tiny details the eye wouldn’t normally catch, but essential for believability.

The overall challenge became proving what was possible without sacrificing narrative clarity, emotional cues, or brand personality.

This was a solo end-to-end project created outside of my regular responsibilities, with full creative ownership across...

Concept · Scriptwriting · Lyric Writing · Prompt Engineering · Visual Direction · AI Image Generation · Music Direction · Editing · Animation · Finishing

While there was no formal team, I shared early explorations with Aceable’s creative and leadership groups, which helped them visualize the potential of AI-driven media.

The initial inspiration came from Wistia’s AI-driven music video commercial (Complete Control). I was curious whether similar results could be achieved with tools available to individual creators, and how far the concept could be pushed visually and narratively.

I wanted the final piece to feel:

• Fun and current
• A little nostalgic
• A little futuristic
• And crafted with intention, not randomness

To highlight the evolution of learning to drive, I built a multi-decade structure:

• 1970s: grainy, bright film textures
• 1990s: camcorder aesthetic and saturated colors
• Modern day: clean, cinematic, high-contrast visuals

Each decade had its own visual and musical identity.

All visual generations were created in Sora, following a scene-by-scene plan.

I used ChatGPT heavily for brainstorming structure, refining story beats, shaping lyrics, and building prompts with precise visual cues to maintain character and scene continuity.

After generation, I assembled and enhanced everything in After Effects, adding:

• Color correction for decade accuracy
• Light grain, analog distortion, and VHS effects
• Transitions and pacing adjustments tied to the music
• Motion tracking in the final scene
• And I used Photoshop for small frame-by-frame fixes where Sora needed help

This project was a full AI-assisted pipeline:

• ChatGPT: brainstorming, writing lyrics, refining tone, and prompt engineering
• Sora: generating all scenes in the music video
• Suno: generating the entire song, beat, vocals, structure, and decade-shifting style

The biggest challenge was character consistency, especially across multiple decades.

Through experimentation, I learned how much a single word could shift tone, style, silhouette, or lighting. So prompts became increasingly precise, incorporating:

• Clothing details
• Hair style
• Car model
• Color cues
• Lighting
• Time-of-day indicators
• Shot size and lens characteristics

By the final sections of the video, I needed far fewer iterations to achieve the desired output, showing how quickly the workflow improved.

After assembling a full cut, I shared the piece internally. The immediate reaction was extremely positive — “OMG!! I love this so much!” — with early discussions about using it for marketing once copyright considerations were clarified.

Although legal restrictions prevented a formal release, the piece became a reference point internally for what AI-assisted creative could look like at Aceable.

The final result is a fun, polished, music-video-style ad that moves through time, switching photography styles, musical genres, and visual language as decades progress, all powered by AI.

Despite being generated with AI, the story feels cohesive, with an empowering, catchy chorus that connects the emotional journey of learning to drive with Aceable’s modern approach.