> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.thedaringcreatives.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Alex Viegas Started Writing The Sower in the 1980s. Now He Films It With AI - URL: https://www.thedaringcreatives.com/creator-stories/alex-viegas-the-sower-ai-films/ - Published: 2026-11-06T18:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-07T11:25:10.000Z - Description: Alex Viegas (@alexviegasoficial) started writing a sci-fi saga called The Sower as a kid in 1980s Brazil. He spent the next decades in trade and a fragrance business, then picked it back up with AI in 2024. Now he sketches each hard scene by hand, generates it shot by shot, plays The Sower - Author: William Smith - Tags: Creator Stories, artist profile, ai filmmaking, music video, sci-fi, electronic music, midjourney, kling, leonardo ai, brazil, #medium:Whole worlds, #method:Mixed, #handle:@alexviegasoficial, #tool:Midjourney, #tool:Kling, #tool:Leonardo, #issue-2026-11, opinion When [Alex Viegas](https://www.alexviegas.com.br/?ref=thedaringcreatives.com) was a boy in Brazil in the 1980s, he used to study the billboards on his way to school. "When I got home, I'd recreate their visual designs on paper, glue them to small wooden boards, and set them up in our garden," he told us. He built tiny versions of the sets from the TV shows of the day, too, and when Carnival came around he made little floats so the kids on his street could hold their own parade. Around the same time, he started writing a science-fiction story called The Sower. It took him about forty years, a career in trade and a fragrance company to get around to filming it. Today he's a Brazilian filmmaker and electronic music producer. He runs Bryan Stenler Studios, which he founded in early 2025, and through it he makes The Sower as a string of AI music videos and short films with his own soundtracks. He posts them as [@alexviegasoficial on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@alexviegasoficial?ref=thedaringcreatives.com) and [@alexviegas.oficial on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/alexviegas.oficial/?ref=thedaringcreatives.com). He wrote to us at length about how he got here, and sent the hand-drawn sketches he still makes before the hardest shots. ## The boy with the miniature sets He was the kid who drew all the time, and his art teachers told him he had a future in it. The shows in the garden drew his first audience. "The neighborhood kids would come over to watch the little performances I put together," he wrote. "I was hooked on visual storytelling long before I knew it could ever be a career." His other obsession was astronomy, and that's where The Sower came from. He spent hours thinking about the cosmos and the origin of life, and by the 1980s he was writing a mythology about other worlds and ancient civilizations. He knew even then it was a big film. "The trouble was, I had the imagination to create it, but not the millions of dollars needed to film it." ## Forty years of making a living So the story waited while he worked. He studied computer science, and at 22 he went into international trade, building businesses and negotiating with clients overseas. In 2010 he founded Perfubrasil, a fragrance company that became the center of his working life. "The Sower remained stored away with me, even when I had to pour all my energy into making a living," he told us. The pandemic hit the business hard. To stay afloat he started studying and trading in the financial markets, and by 2021 he'd noticed how much money was going into NVIDIA and the hardware behind AI. That sent him into reading about AI and what it could do for creative work. "When generative tools became accessible, something clicked on a deeply personal level: the realization that I could finally bring to life the stories I'd carried inside me since childhood." He started making experimental videos in 2024\. The studio followed in early 2025\. The way he puts it, the story came first and the tools came much later: "I didn't create The Sower because artificial intelligence became available; I embraced artificial intelligence because I had spent 40 years waiting for a way to bring The Sower to life." ## Why he built virtual actors The studio is named after Bryan Stenler, the first of several recurring characters he generates with AI. Viegas says the reason was money. "The original motivation was practical: I couldn't afford to hire a full cast, construct physical sets, fund massive VFX, or maintain the infrastructure a sci-fi universe of this scale would traditionally demand." He also wanted characters who come back. A one-off AI face appears once and is gone, and he wanted faces an audience would recognize from one film to the next. Bryan plays The Guardian, a protector in the saga, and [The Sower Universe page on his site](https://www.bryanstenler.com.br/bryan-stenler-studios-cinematic-ai-virtual-talent-creative-production/the-sower-universe?ref=thedaringcreatives.com) lists the rest of the cast: a villain called Lunther Malakar, Enzo Ravenwood, the last survivor of a fallen world called Orion, and a baby gargoyle called Billy. In [a column he wrote for shots](https://shots.net/news/view/the-character-outlives-the-campaign-can-ai-keep-up?ref=thedaringcreatives.com), he says the test is whether a returning character still feels like the same one: "When a character returns in a new scene, the question is whether the audience recognises the same presence, not whether we can generate an attractive substitute." ## He plays The Sower himself The lead role is his. Viegas plays The Sower, the traveler at the center of the saga, as a digital version of himself. He told us why. "Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to act in films, but I was always very shy." His Sower speaks very little and always wears the same black blazer over a black turtleneck. "I suppose I ended up carrying my shyness right onto the screen... haha." He started revealing the cast on YouTube with [a short set to his track "The Sower,"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5mfxkhp0G4&ref=thedaringcreatives.com) which introduces him as "the main figure in the dark science fiction saga." Alex Viegas as The Sower, set to his track "The Sower" (2026), on YouTube ([@alexviegasoficial](https://www.youtube.com/@alexviegasoficial?ref=thedaringcreatives.com)) In "Lunther – Stone by Stone," the Sower finally meets the villain. The credits under [the film on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah0KLU5EVMk&ref=thedaringcreatives.com) list Viegas as writer, editor, artistic director, VFX and soundtrack, with "Alex Viegas as 'The Sower'" in the cast. Alex Viegas — "Lunther – Stone by Stone" (2025), on YouTube ([@alexviegasoficial](https://www.youtube.com/@alexviegasoficial?ref=thedaringcreatives.com)) ## A sketch first, then hundreds of generations The notebooks from the 1980s are gone. "Unfortunately, most of the early sketches were lost amidst the many house moves I went through over the span of 40 years." He still draws, though, and now it's part of making each film. "What I have today are concept sketches and drawings that I usually make for certain characters and more complex scenes when needed—mostly because the greatest challenge is still getting AI to capture the precise emotion I want in a scene." He sent us four short videos of the drawings turning into finished shots. In one, a lighthouse in colored pencil, with a spiral of blue sky over it, becomes a lit tower under a storm of blue cloud. ![Left, a colored-pencil sketch of a striped lighthouse under a swirling blue sky; right, the finished AI-generated shot of the same lighthouse under a glowing blue vortex of cloud](https://storage.ghost.io/c/4b/dc/4bdc4be6-5abc-4e80-986d-59016a3f1831/content/images/2026/11/alex-viegas-confrontation-sketch-to-shot.jpg) From sketch to shot: the lighthouse from his teaser for "The Confrontation." Courtesy of Alex Viegas Each shot starts with him picturing the scene the way a director would: where the camera sits, what the light is doing, what the character is feeling. Then he generates the image in Midjourney and Leonardo AI, two image generators, and the hard part is keeping Bryan's face the same. He told us hundreds of versions get made at this stage, and he picks through them by hand. "It is a mentally exhausting process; I often spend an entire day just locking down a single shot." Once a still is right, he moves it into Kling AI, a tool that turns a still image into a video clip. "Once I have the right image, I use Kling AI to bring cinematic motion to life." That step breaks often. "An animation can introduce unwanted facial alterations, unnatural movements, inconsistent anatomy, or visual artifacts." He throws out the bad clips, changes the prompt and runs it again, sometimes dozens of times for one shot, then edits the keepers together against his music. Kling is also the tool behind [Simon Meyer's lip-synced AI music video](https://www.thedaringcreatives.com/creator-stories/simonmeyer-director-ai-music-video-lip-sync/), if you want to see it pushed toward a singing performance. ![Left, a pencil drawing of a bald figure in a dark coat with a golden arch behind his head; right, the finished shot of a pale figure with glowing orange eyes in front of a ring of gold lights](https://storage.ghost.io/c/4b/dc/4bdc4be6-5abc-4e80-986d-59016a3f1831/content/images/2026/11/alex-viegas-golden-arch-sketch-to-shot.jpg) From sketch to shot: the villain Lunther and the Golden Arch. Courtesy of Alex Viegas He keeps the drawings on purpose, and his shots column explains why: "We retain original hand-drawn concepts and production-development material, not simply for a making-of reel, but as a record of creative choices." His own short version of the job is this: "Technology generates possibilities. My responsibility is deciding which possibilities belong to the film." Tools he credits himself Midjourney · [Kling AI](https://klingai.com/?ref=thedaringcreatives.com) · Leonardo AI From his emails to us, November 2026\. The sketches are pencil and colored pencil on paper. ## The music comes from him too Viegas is a composer and producer as well, and he writes and produces every soundtrack in The Sower himself. [His bio page](https://www.bryanstenler.com.br/bryan-stenler-studios-cinematic-ai-virtual-talent-creative-production/alex-viegas?ref=thedaringcreatives.com) files the music under melodic techno, EDM and dark pop, and some of the tracks carry the story. He wrote "Sick Humanity," for one, about the collapse of society on Earth. When we asked which piece readers should hear first, he picked "In the Shadows," a three-minute music video from 2025 set on the dunes and an empty beach at sunset. He described it to us like this: "In the video's narrative, Bryan Stenler discovers a rare illness and, following that discovery, begins to reflect on the true meaning of life while walking through dunes." Alex Viegas — "In the Shadows" (2025), on YouTube ([@alexviegasoficial](https://www.youtube.com/@alexviegasoficial?ref=thedaringcreatives.com))