Skywhale Airways · Colophon

How this was dreamed

The stills were dreamed in Midjourney,
the songs summoned through Suno,
the motion coaxed from Veo —
then we built an airport around them,
out of light and scroll.

A Psychedelic Airport for Time Travelers began as a prompt: the AI Film Club's Retro challenge, June 2026. We wanted an airport for lost decades — a place where fish move like aircraft, the clock refuses ordinary time, and a traveler departs with one bag and arrives with more time than she left with.

The look came first. Hand-painted gouache frames — the golden skywhale, the Time Traveller in her dark suit, the terminal where fish drift through the ceiling like constellations — were generated in Midjourney and curated down to ten keyframes. The score grew alongside them in Suno: whale sky god, Beneath Skywhale, and Airline Brochure, a retro-futurist lounge bed for a narrator from a film that was never made. The animation itself was coaxed from Veo, scene by scene, then cut into a 53-second web film.

This site is the airport we built to hold all of it. It is a single hand-written page: a WebGL shader (Three.js) melts each painting into the next as you scroll, generative fish drift in parallax, and the soundtrack drives the distortion so the images breathe. Nothing here is a stock template; it was assembled the slow way, by hand, the same way you'd build a set.

We're transparent about the tools because the methodology is the art — a small crew, AI as a brush and an instrument, and a lot of taste applied on top.

Manifest

Stills

Midjourney — 10 hand-curated gouache keyframes

Songs

Suno — whale sky god · Beneath Skywhale · Airline Brochure

Animation

Veo — in progress, scene by scene

Airport

Vite · Three.js / GLSL · vanilla JS, built by hand

Merch

Gemini image generation, the keyframes as reference

Decade

retro · all of them · none of them