Origin: AI-powered cinematic microsite generator using Gemini 2.5 Flash

Short summary

Origin is a weekend-challenge project that turns seven user answers about a passion into a cinematic microsite with an origin story, timeline, 3D character card, AI movie poster, and voice narration. Built with Next.js 16, Gemini 2.5 Flash for story generation, and ElevenLabs for narration, it features zero-API-key demo mode, framework-agnostic core logic, and progressive 3D degradation. The project showcases practical patterns for validating AI output and graceful fallbacks.

• •Seven-question input generates full cinematic microsite with poster and voice narration
• •Gemini 2.5 Flash handles structured story generation with Zod validation and auto-repair
• •Zero-API-key mode with mock generation enables full-flow testing without quota burn
• •Framework-agnostic core logic separated from React for reliable unit and property testing

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.