# @i_knew_it_studio on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DeDmddfMW4p
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71285455-i-knew-it-studio-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-10-04T03:00:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Bri (@i_knew_it_studio) — https://gondola.cc/i_knew_it_studio

## Caption

AMARA — PART ONE 🕯️

New Orleans. 1850s.

A young enslaved woman named Amara begins passing from household to household under increasingly strange circumstances.

She doesn’t threaten anyone.
She doesn’t accuse anyone.
She barely speaks.

She simply looks.

And wherever her attention settles, buried truths have a way of finding their way into the light.

This is a first look at a larger visual series I’ve been developing around Amara — Southern Gothic, psychological horror, hidden histories, scandal, power, and the unsettling question of whether she is causing any of it… or simply seeing what everyone else has tried not to.

This first scene is really a test run for the larger story I plan to rebuild and tell from the ground up, scene by scene.

And I’m very curious whether you want me to keep going.

Because the next question is:

What is Amara staring at?

And once they finally look…things get ugly.

Story inspiration: inspired by the fictionalized Amara story shared by “Before The Story” on YouTube. This series is my own visual reimagining and adaptation of that inspiration.

Huge thank you to my incredible animation instructor alchemissa for helping me completely rethink character continuity, environment building, performance, camera movement, and cinematic AI animation. If you want to learn more, head over to her page and check the link in her bio to learn how you can make animated videos like this. 

This entire series was created entirely with Seedance 2.5 in higgsfield.ai 

Visual adaptation, character development, direction, animation, and original music by me.

Should I post Part Two and show you what they find? 👀

#AIFilm #AIAnimation #SouthernGothic #higgsfieldai #Seedance

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aifilm, higgsfieldai, aianimation, seedance, southerngothic

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