A slide can describe an experience. A film can make someone feel as though they’re already there.
In a pitch, a creative might see that film clearly. They know the place, the emotion, the moment that would make the idea land. Then the deadline and budget close in. The film never gets made, and the vision goes back into a few slides.
Nobody decided the idea was bad. It simply ran out of ways to be made.
That is the gap I want AI to close.
For years, creative work has depended on who can operate which tools, and who has enough time to do it. People who master those tools bring judgment as well as technical skill. But the need to operate a whole production system can also stop someone with a powerful idea from testing it.
That starting point is beginning to change. Comfy Agent can build and run workflows from a description in Comfy Cloud. Krea Agent can plan steps across creative tools from a brief. These are early examples, but they suggest a different question for a team: what do we want to make?
As an Executive Creative Director, I want that change to help us make better work. A pitch film could let people experience an idea instead of only hearing it explained. It could help a team stand out and win work. More importantly, a creative with a vision might get the chance to show what they mean while the idea still has energy.
Creativity is the almost invisible transfer of a feeling. Something begins in one person’s head and reaches someone else: excitement, laughter, sadness, anger, wonder. The tools matter because they help carry it. They should not decide whether it gets the chance to travel.
Perhaps the next question for a creative is less “Which software can you use?” and more “What can you imagine, and what do you want someone else to feel?”
That is the golden age I can see coming.
Colin Melville is an Executive Creative Director. These views are his own.
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