RA Moving images / close reads

Richard Adair, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

From idea to final frame

One person. The whole pipeline.

  1. 01Concept
  2. 02Research
  3. 03Script
  4. 04Character
  5. 05Generate
  6. 06Composite
  7. 07Edit

Every Bruddah Bigfoot film here was created independently from concept through final edit and release.

  • MoodIsolation + scale
  • LightVolcanic / practical
  • ToneDocumentary
DepthFocus: human + environment
  1. Haliʻi Poaka Part 2 story map with five acts and nine storyboard scenes Storyboard Haliʻi Poaka / Part 2
  2. Headmaster Arroyo starting frame at Kamehameha Schools with a glowing green staff Starting frame Headmaster Arroyo
  3. Finished composited face-off frame from the Blumdermort sequence Finished frame Blumdermort / face-off
One real artifact from each stage. Different films, same pipeline.

Creative storytelling brought to life with AI.

A composite from my Blumdermort sequence. Four time-coded notes, each one labeled with the timing or motion I would change.

BLUMDERMORT / SOURCE 02ORIGINAL AUDIO

  1. Energy, caption and portraits all move at once. Nowhere for the eye to land.

    Hold the caption until the energy starts.

  2. The bands hold continuity fine. The portrait underneath keeps changing and steals the reaction.

    Freeze the portrait until the reaction lands.

  3. Several near-identical poses in a row. The sequence stops moving.

    Pick the strongest one and get to the face-off sooner.

  4. Composite, title and end card land in one beat. The payoff gets buried.

    Land the face-off first. Title and end card after.

Organizing creative thoughts into finished stories.

From the first idea to the final mix, every stage of it mine.

  1. Concept

    Coming up with the ideas is half the fun.

    Haliʻi Poaka, Part 101:59
    Blum against the Dark Lord
    Blumdermort against Kamehameha Schools
    Haliʻi Poaka, the warrior
    Blumdermort against the headmaster
    The campus, wide
    Blumdermort against a Hawaiian warrior
    Lava guardian, early sketch

  2. Researching and planning

    King Kamehameha, The Prophecy Begins01:24
    Research summary separating Kamehameha prophecy sources from biography research
    Research corpusProphecy / biography / linkage

  3. Story architecture

    Haliʻi Poaka, Part 202:51
    Five-act storyboard for Haliʻi Poaka Episode 2, with nine scene panels beneath it
    Haliʻi Poaka, Ep 2

  4. Boards and references

    Open a frame for a closer look.

  5. Character design

    Captain Cook01:10
    Front, side and back turnaround for Bigfoot Kamehameha
    Turnaround
    Warriors and chiefs at sunrise bay
    Warriors and chiefs
    Pele
    Pele
    Bigfoot Kamehameha
    Kamehameha
    Captain Cook
    Cook
    Chef Harry
    Harry
    Koa warrior brothers
    Koa brothers

  6. Prompt engineering

    SIDELINE TRACK / FORM WEDGE / CHARGE
    Pele the Fire Goddess01:00
    • Close
    • Wide
    • Used
    • Wide

    Four takes, one beat.

    Headmaster Arroyo starting frame at Kamehameha Schools with a glowing green staff
    Starting frame / location + character
    Staggered side-profile reference for the Kamehameha football warrior charge
    Motion reference / formation + direction

  7. AI video engineering

    Jurassic Carter Subaru Seattle01:34
    The Haliʻi Poaka Filmora timeline with layered video and audio clips visible
    Haliʻi Poaka timelineFilmora
    Finished Haliʻi Poaka face-off between Blumdermort and Headmaster Arroyo
    Finished Haliʻi Poaka frame

    Subaru concept films. Open any cut to play it.

Every film, start to finish.

Move across a frame to skim it. Open any film to watch.

Haliʻi Poaka.

The Hawaiian Harry Potter parody, in two parts.

  1. Haliʻi Poaka, Part 101:59 52K views
  2. Haliʻi Poaka, Part 202:51 3,223 views
  3. Kamehameha Schools Montage00:38
  4. Kamehameha Schools Under Attack, Part 300:45

Jurassic Subaru.

One idea, four finished cuts. Unofficial genre exercises; Universal Pictures did not commission or produce them.

  1. Subaru Prehistoric Adventurers01:25 Archive master
  2. Jurassic Subaru, Highlight01:00 Archive master
  3. Jurassic Subaru, Alternate Cut01:23 HDR source
  4. Jurassic Carter Subaru Seattle01:35 Archive master

Commerce.

Brand films, UGC ads and explainers for the Couch Kingdom line.

  1. Couch Kingdom02:25
  2. Kingdom of Sheen02:39
  3. The Velvet Paw Decree01:38
  4. Emerald Sofa Bed Review, Take 100:15
  5. Emerald Sofa Bed Review, Take 200:15
  6. Couch Kingdom Explainer00:12
  7. ASMR Paws Prototype00:08
  8. The Last One Up00:52

Bruddah Bigfoot.

  1. Where Is the Boto?00:46 190.1K views
  2. Best Poke on Oʻahu01:00 60.8K views
  3. What Is Okole Puka?01:10 52.7K views
  4. Hanabata Boto or Mahu Mahu?00:21 28.5K views
  5. What Does ‘Haole’ Really Mean?01:29 27.6K views
  6. Boto Island, Part 101:00 18.2K views
  7. Boto Island, Part 201:00 4,371 views
  8. Day 2 Hawaiʻi Vlog, Part 101:15 6,461 views
  9. Kamehameha vs Cook, Part I01:11 8,474 views
  10. Kamehameha: The Prophecy Begins01:24 15.5K views
  11. Pele the Fire Goddess01:00 6,451 views
  12. Kamehameha Origins: The Prophecy01:47 1,269 views
  13. Bruddah Bigfoot, Episode 102:35
  14. ABC Haole01:29
  15. Braised Boto or Mahu Mahu01:33
  16. How to Make Malasadas02:32
  17. Nalo Party01:00
  18. Hulas01:18
  19. Inside Hulas, Waikīkī07:21
  20. Zippy's Breakfast Prank01:11
  21. No 1 Hawaiʻi Tourist Must See01:00
  22. Cloudy With a Chance of Boto01:00
  23. Captain Cook01:10
  24. Captain Cook Goes Ashore00:58
  25. Chief Alapaʻi and the Kahuna01:24
  26. Alapaʻi Hears the Prophecy01:46
  27. The Birth of Kamehameha01:31
  28. Kamehameha vs Cook, Part II01:00
  29. Koa Warrior Kamehameha01:11
  30. Don't Mess With Filipino Tito01:00
  31. How to Order Foodland Poke01:56
  32. Kupuna Tricked Us02:43
  33. What Is Kupuna?00:45
  34. Is It Kawika or Kaweka?00:33
  35. Day 2 Vlog, Part 101:15
  36. Day 2 Vlog, Part 200:42
  37. Day 2 Vlog, Part 301:03
  38. Day 2 Outtakes01:11
  39. Keoni and the Poke Squid00:24
  40. George Fiji Veikoso, In Memory01:34

33 public Bruddah Bigfoot posts. The counts say how far each one traveled.

6,065
followers
30,730
likes
190.1K
top video views
Open the Bruddah Bigfoot channel Live public TikTok snapshot checked August 17, 2026. Counts continue to change.

The tools, and what I do with them.

Filmora and CapCut finish every Bruddah Bigfoot film. The rest handle the research, the still images and the generations.

Generate
  • Higgsfield
  • Kling
  • Veo
  • Google Flow
Research
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • NotebookLM
  • Gemini
Finish
  • Filmora
  • CapCut
Craft
  • Layered compositing
  • masking
  • background removal
  • motion tracking
  • keyframe animation
  • speed changes
  • color correction and grading
  • sound design and mixing
  • transitions
  • captions
  • motion graphics

If you want one of these for your own thing.

Every film above is mine, start to finish, and nobody paid for any of them yet. Tell me what you sell and roughly what you want people to feel, and I’ll tell you straight whether video is worth your money.

richard@adairlabs.com
Film library1 / 56
Choose play when the film is ready. WEB MASTER ORIGINAL AUDIO

Selected film

Film player

Select a film from the list.

    Open video file
    Image viewer

    Selected image

    Open image