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Senior Creative Technologist at .Monks — 15+ years making machines creative, interactive, and human.

Generative AI LLM Pipelines Real-time Visuals Creative Coding Machine Learning
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Google Walmart Chile Adidas Pharmaton Charité

Lider × Omnicom

Freelance AI consultancy for Omnicom Media Chile's local team — unblocking AI video creation for Lider's social campaigns: character consistency across generations, and advising on an API-based model pipeline so the team can answer client demands fast.

client
Lider (Walmart Chile)
agency
Omnicom Media Chile
my role
Freelance AI Consultant
format
16:9 film · 9:16 social
pipeline
Image refs → AI generation
01 · día del niño — the film
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ai film · 58s

Día del Niño — AI Film

A fully AI-generated film for Lider's Día del Niño campaign — no cameras, no 3D. Built with Google's Omni model and NanoBanana in a pipeline designed for iteration: every shot stays editable, so a change at any point — a character, a prop, a look — propagates through previous and upcoming shots instead of forcing a regeneration from scratch. The final sequences were merged into one continuous story and upscaled with Topaz to broadcast quality.

role · AI pipeline consultancy & consistency stack · Google Omni · NanoBanana · ElevenLabs · Topaz
02 · canela — where it started

Canela, the cashier cat

This is where the collaboration began — a proof piece to show the team that AI could hold a consistent character and tell a story. The brief called for a generic cat; as a cat owner, I used photos and the name of my real one instead. The client loved her, the audience responded, and Canela became a recurring character. No 3D, no rigging: identity held together purely by reference frames.

canela · 01
On checkout duty — "pay with meow or purr" enabled.
canela · 02
Restocking the pet aisle — same character, frame to frame.
03 · ciby — the comeback

Ciby, back from the archives

The second engagement with OMD Omnicom: bringing Lider's classic mascot back to life. Working only from past campaign imagery, I guided NanoBanana to reconstruct Ciby's identity in consistent hero frames — then generated a new set of pieces that put a character from the archives back on screen, without redesigning a thing.

ciby · 01
Brand identity held steady from past-campaign references.
ciby · 02
Same style guide, new scene — coherent frame to frame.

Creative Process

Characters before content — every piece starts from a personality, not a product shot.

01

Ground the character in something real. Canela began as photos of my actual cat — name included; Ciby began as Lider's existing mascot from past campaigns. Real references give AI characters a soul generic prompts can't.

02

Give each character a job in the store world — Canela works checkout and restocks aisles, Ciby runs missions. Scenes are written as story beats, so every video is a small episode rather than an ad.

03

Lock "hero frames" with the client before generating any motion — canonical stills that define look, wardrobe, lighting, and brand fit. Sign-off happens on frames, which are cheap to iterate, not on videos, which aren't.

04

Let the audience steer. Canela was meant to be a one-off generic cat — client and audience response turned her into a recurring character.

Technical Pipeline

A modular image-to-video pipeline where every stage stays editable after the fact.

01

Curate reference sets — real photos for Canela, past campaign frames for Ciby — covering angles, lighting, and expressions the character will need.

02

Generate hero frames with NanoBanana, iterating until identity holds across contexts: same face, same wardrobe, same brand palette in a checkout, an aisle, or a spaceship.

03

Drive video generation with Google's Omni model from those frames. Because shots are generated from shared references, changing a character or prop at any point propagates through previous and upcoming shots — no regenerating from scratch.

04

Finish like a film: Topaz upscale to broadcast quality, voice and sound with ElevenLabs, then subtitles, motion graphics, and audio mix in post. Delivered as 16:9 film and 9:16 social cuts.

AI Pipelines & Experiences

Building real experiences where AI does something genuinely useful — or genuinely surprising.

AI Chef System
multi-model AI · NLP

AI Chef System

A multi-model pipeline that generates complete, personalized recipes — the right dish for the right person, with imagery to match. LLMs handle the cooking logic; image models plate it.

role · pipeline design & prompt systems stack · LLMs · image generation
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AI Photobooth
stable diffusion · real-time

Real-time AI Photobooth

One of the first live Stable Diffusion photobooths — before this was a product category. Walk in, get photographed, walk out as generative art. Latency tuned until the magic felt instant.

role · concept & full build stack · Stable Diffusion · TouchDesigner
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earlier work · 4× FWA awarded

Creative Technology

Interactive work spanning AR, physical computing, accessible design, and brand installations.

Pharmaton Kids Website
FWA · accessibility · web

Pharmaton Kids — Accessible Web

Inclusive design for children with reading disabilities — adaptive UI, simplified navigation, and accessible interactions.

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Parkinson's Campaign
FWA · 3D printing · health

Printed by Parkinson's

Tremor data translated into 3D-printed objects — making an invisible condition tangible.

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FWA · AR · volumetric video

AR Christmas Card

Web-based volumetric video experience — a holiday message you could walk around.

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FWA · installation · motion

Adidas Originals Launch

Motion-sensor installation for the Deerupt launch — real-time graphics driven by how you move.

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About

I'm Luis — theguaz online: Guajardo + Díaz, a handle I coined back when Hotmail was the new thing, and never let go. A Chilean creative technologist based in Hilversum, working at .Monks. I started in interactive websites and physical installations over fifteen years ago, and moved into generative AI early — building one of the first real-time Stable Diffusion photobooths back when that required duct tape and conviction.

My favorite brief is the one without a reference. I prototype fast, mix physical computing with AI models, and obsess over the last 10% — the part people actually feel.

Also: my cat Canela is now a Walmart Chile brand character. Possibly my proudest production deploy to date.

base
Hilversum, NL · CET
experience
15+ years
recognition
4× FWA awarded
currently
Senior Creative Technologist @ .Monks
availability
Open for freelance · remote worldwide
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