Paper World: an AIart poetic universe built entirely from the world’s lost love letters

AI handmade dream of paper, love, and artificial imagination. Paper World is my latest AIart generated video artwork — a fragile, poetic universe built entirely from the world’s lost love letters. Inside a small shoebox, a world unfolds: streets, houses, creatures, and an angel made of paper and ink, guarding the remnants of human emotion. Here, the boundaries between art and technology dissolve, giving birth to a miniature cosmos where every gesture, texture, and breath feels handcrafted yet born from code.

This project began with a question that’s haunted much of my artistic work: what happens to human emotion once it’s forgotten? What if every love letter ever written — every unfinished sentence, every ink-stained confession — could be reborn as a living world? Paper World is that answer: a universe woven from longing, nostalgia, and imagination, shaped by the invisible hand of algorithms but beating with a deeply human heart. Between the Handmade and the Digital

Although it exists entirely in the digital realm, Paper World feels tangible, almost touchable. Its aesthetic language draws from stop-motion miniatures and cardboard dioramas — imperfect, tactile, deeply human. Every wall, creature, and street is imagined as if cut, folded, and glued by hand.

The concept lives between the material and the immaterial: a handcrafted dream simulated by machines. Through this contrast, Paper World becomes a metaphor for our era — a reflection on how technology can both preserve and reinterpret the fragile traces of human feeling. The Creative Process

The project began with MidJourney, where I built the style: visual foundation of this paper-made universe. The character design — whimsical, childlike, yet deeply symbolic — was developed through iterative collaboration between MidJourney and Leonardo AI, merging the spontaneity of hand-drawn aesthetics with the precision of digital composition.

The environments — streets, interiors, skies made of cardboard and scribbled paper — were generated and refined frame by frame to maintain a cohesive visual narrative. Each element carries traces of human touch: pencil lines, smudges, folds, and wrinkles that evoke the materiality of forgotten letters. The Sound of Fragility

For the musical score, I used the ElevenLabs Music Model, an experimental AI designed to generate emotive soundscapes. The resulting composition feels both mechanical and organic. The music doesn’t merely accompany the images; it animates them, suggesting that even silence, in this universe, has texture and memory. Animating the Impossible

To bring this world to life, I combined multiple AI video generation platforms — Kling, Veo3, and Seedance. Each tool contributed a different layer of realism and movement: Kling provided the handcrafted motion feel, Veo3 added cinematic depth and fluidity, while Seedance helped refine transitions and environmental coherence. Together, they turned static imagery into a living diorama — a moving collage where paper creatures walk, dance, and breathe within a world made of words. A Story About Love, Memory, and AI

At its core, Paper World is not a story about technology, but about memory. It is a meditation on fragility — on the persistence of love even when forgotten, on the transformation of human expression into something new through artificial means.

The paper beings are metaphors of our emotions: fragile, imperfect, yet luminous.Their world — sealed in a shoebox and guarded by an angel of ink — becomes an archive of feeling, a tender reminder that even in the age of algorithms, the essence of art remains profoundly human. Festival Submission

The full video of Paper World has been submitted to the Chroma Awards, an international competition celebrating innovation in AI-driven creativity. You can watch it here!

Visual Concept & Worldbuilding: MidJourney

Character Design: MidJourney + Leonardo AI

Video Generation: Kling, Veo3, Seedance

Music Score: ElevenLabs Music Model Creative Direction & Postproduction: Francesca Fini