It all started with a single image.  A simple AI prompt (2025/8/5)

English translation: "Can you generate an image that evokes the world of the 1980s? With a sports car, a sunset, and a young man carrying a machine of his own invention, in the style of Joe Dante's Explorers, all in photorealism?"

I had spent several months working on a video game concept called WalcoreBlade, using AI to deeply expand its lore and create a large body of visual concept art.
Then I saw this image — a teenager standing in front of a red car, holding a strange machine.
Something about it instantly clicked.
I wanted to pull the thread, to uncover and tell the story that this single picture seemed already to be telling on its own.

From that moment, FlashDrive 1987 began to grow:  a nostalgic, cinematic adventure blending coming-of-age energy, 80s sci-fi vibes, and a touch of dreamlike wonder.

What is FlashDrive 1987 ?

It's both a film project and a creative experiment. 
Set in a retro-futuristic 1987, it follows Rudy, a young genius who accidentally connects his AI-powered red Nissan 300ZX (CHIP) to a mysterious signal, one that doesn’t seem to come from Earth.

With his friend Yaho, Rudy discovers Karune, a strange and luminous world that might not be so different from ours after all.

The entire script was completed before the visual work began. Every capsule you see is based on a scene from the screenplay. A way to test its rhythm, tone, and atmosphere before full production.

How it's made

FlashDrive isn’t a traditional production.  It’s a visual and musical exploration, built through a mix of :

• AI-assisted visuals  (Dall-E, Mistral, Midjourney, Hedra)
• AI voices (ElevenLabs)
• Original music composed in Renoise & SynthV,  sometimes on hardware synthetizers.
• Scripting & storyboarding using FadeIn

Rather than replacing creativity, these tools act like a concept sketchbook, allowing scenes, moods, and emotions to take shape quickly, as if glimpsing a movie that might exist someday.

Each Capsule is a small piece of that imagined film, a fragment of narrative, a melody, a memory.

The Sound of FlashDrive

Music is the heartbeat of this project. 
Each capsule is built around its soundtrack: a mix of synthwave, ambient layers, and cinematic harmonies inspired by the dreamlike optimism of 1980s cinema.
Sometimes the music leads the story.  Sometimes the story follows the sound.

What's next

In this DevLog, I’ll be sharing:

• Behind-the-scenes looks at how each capsule is made
• Thoughts on creative process and storytelling
• Musical sketches and visual experiments
  

If you love retro sci-fi, vaporwave atmospheres, or the emotional pulse of 80s adventure films, you might feel right at home here. :)

Welcome to FlashDrive 1987 —  a dream that began with one image.

NB: The goal isn’t to make a full AI film, but to use AI as a creative tool — a way to explore, visualize, and share the feeling of a story before it fully exists.