Elladistan
I turned my lyrics about Greek public life into a vertical musical satire styled after a 1990s Saturday-morning cartoon.
Brief
I wanted the satire to work as a song first. I wrote the lyrics around recognisable parts of Greek public life, then planned a short cartoon in which each verse could carry its own visual gag.
The final piece had to feel like the opening titles of a 1990s Saturday-morning programme while remaining legible as a vertical social film.
Constraint
Each scene began as a separate still, so recurring faces, costumes and objects could drift between shots. The music also fixed the duration of every beat before I animated a frame.
What I built
I made one original song and a complete 9:16 film. The cut uses generated cartoon scenes, character animation, timed captions and sound design around the finished track.
How I built it
I wrote the lyrics first. I then used Suno to test melodies until the song found the right register, a brassy 1990s Saturday-morning cartoon theme.
Next, I generated every key image in Nano Banana. I treated each picture as a storyboard frame and carried the character details from one scene into the next.
Grok Imagine turned those stills into motion. I selected the takes that preserved the drawing and matched the lyric timing, then assembled the film, captions and final audio in CapCut.
Stack, stage by stage
- Writing
- My original lyrics
- Music
- Suno
- Key images
- Nano Banana
- Animation
- Grok Imagine
- Edit
- CapCut
Where it landed
I published Elladistan as a self-initiated vertical short. The full film plays on this page.