Ziyan Xia
Illustrated portrait in a dark restaurant interior

Design & AIGC

Generative image and motion work — prompted, art-directed and cut by hand.

Mandarin Oriental New York

I took a photograph in the hotel’s dining room, then rebuilt it as a 90s Batman-inspired Dark Deco scene in Kling AI 3.0 — and the hotel wrote back.

01 · Initiative Instagram story turning the hotel photograph into a Dark Deco scene
My own photograph of the room, reimagined as a Dark Deco scene and posted to story.
02 · Outcome
The finished five-second film.
03 · Process
Prompt, start frame and end frame — the shot specified as camera move and performance, not just subject.
04 · Feedback Mandarin Oriental New York replying on Instagram
Mandarin Oriental New York, unprompted, on Instagram.

Creativity at its finest.

— @mo_newyork, Mandarin Oriental New York

Other Shots

Holding a gaze, then letting it go — the performance written into the prompt rather than found in the edit.
A different room, lit magenta. Before and after, side by side.

Motion

Product Design & UX

Watch Studio Co-Design

Invited participant · Product design workshop at Google

  • A co-design session on making a watch that reads as personal to its wearer. Time spent on the research and product-design side of the craft, alongside the analytics work.
Watch Studio Co-Design workshop session