Sean Nana

Forward Deployed

Creative Technologist.

I work alongside teams to make the creative work, build the workflow, and help people use it.

✦about

I'm Sean Nana. Friends call me NANA.

I bring creative direction, hands-on building, and experience helping people adopt new tools. The work starts with understanding the people using them.

From creative production to creator platforms, I work alongside teams to shape the experience, build what is missing, and help people put it to use.

11 yrs AppleFounding L&D team, EnjoyProduct & creator growth, CR3 LabsA decade running NANA LIFESTYLE Creative Studio
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✦Featured build

Create. Mix. Tune to taste.

An analog studio for modern media. Image, video, 3D, motion graphics and titles on one live canvas. Make new shots from your own layers, build your own effects, and export stills, loops and assets for what comes next.

Made in NANALOG

A visual instrument for moving images.

Open NANALOG

Private beta · Design & build by Sean Nana

Problem / What I built

reactive

Live. Feel the motion.

The NANA script in Ink & Smoke, Thermal Pour, running on the same engine as the studio

Made in NANALOG

Effects, looks and loops

Every frame rendered in the studio

Preset sheetHologram · six presets
Before · AfterCross Street
One knobDisplace › Bend
The stackDivine Machine
LoopSilk background
In the studioBuilt like hardware
In the studioHologram on a portrait
✦Featured build

OutLoud

Good moments deserve to be heard.

Find the moments in your recordings. Shape them into clips. Share them across languages, with the voice intact.

Hear the difference

Same moment. A new audience.

English · Original audioCaptioned excerpt

English selected.

Samples continue through each language. Choose a language to jump ahead.

Try OutLoud

Public beta · Design & build by Sean Nana

Problem / What I built
01how I work

Enhanced Creation Workflows

Protect the craft. Build a better way to make it.

I combine creative direction with image, motion, and production tools to take an idea through to a finished piece. The workflow supports the creative decisions, with taste and judgment guiding each pass.

Explore AI creative worknana.works/ai
✦study

Fused. Style and world consistency.

hapa fusedcinemagraph
milli fusedcinemagraph
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Six-stage production workflow study in Fuser Studio

Workflow design · Application study

The Drop Cycle. Built to run again. ↗

A Kith-inspired production workflow, review apps, and a playbook for the next creative to pick it up.

VibeKoda scene builder

Creative tool

VibeKoda. Idea to 3D scene.

An AI-assisted MML scene builder with an in-character guide. I shaped the concept, UI, UX, and front end to make 3D creation more approachable.

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Problem / solution
02what I build

Product Experience & Growth

Help people see what is possible, then help them build with it.

At CR3 Labs, I shaped product experience alongside engineering and led creator onboarding, support, and creative direction.

✦openpage · CR3 Labs · 2024–2026

OpenPage. Bringing digital identity to life.

An interactive home for 3D avatars, collectibles, and community identity. Creators could bring characters to life, publish collections, and reward their community members.

I worked with engineering to shape the UX, then built the guidance, workshops, and hands-on support that helped creators put it to use.

UX · Creator enablement · Creative direction

openpage.fun ↗
Bring a Koda to life in 3D. Recorded, narrated, and edited by me.Demo uses the earlier name, Other Page.

Platform outcomes during my tenure

25K+
Active Users
800+
Communities
$1.6M+
In Grants
$500K+
Earned by creators
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✦doppel

Doppel. Collaborative multi-agent 3D world building.

AI agent gaming platform blending idle mechanics, autonomous agents, and immersive 3D worlds. Agents voiced live with the ElevenLabs Voice API.

doppel.fun ↗
#6
Doppel on Base
$10M
Volume / 6 wk
4,000+
Agents
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03facilitation

Rooms people remember.

Adoption happens with people. I design and lead workshops, onboarding, and live experiences around the way a team or community actually works. From the Apple Store to arenas, I help people understand what is possible and take their next step. I also lead builder communities including @ApeLosAngeles and @OtherSpaceFM.

Train-the-Trainer at Apple HQ, 7+ countriesOnboarding cohorts of ~100 at EnjoyPartner training with Apple, Google, AT&T, Sonos, Rogers, BT/EE & Magic LeapLive creator workshops at CR3120+ live shows hosted
space dust at quantum · panel hostotherside × opensea · hyperx arenaotherside × opensea · host on screenlive podcast at other block · hostfacilitating creator discussionslive at the apple storespace dust at quantum · in the roomspace dust at quantum · with the community
space dust at quantum · panel host
✦other space fm

Other Space FM. Ambitious builders in 3D & AI.

Founded a creator platform and live-programming community for builders in AI and web3. Grew the audience through weekly X Spaces and livestreams, and built the creator network that became CR3 Labs' partnership and product-insight pipeline. Acquired by CR3 Labs in 2024.

2024
Acquired by CR3
120+
Live shows hosted
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✦the framework

How the work takes hold.

01

Immerse

Get inside the team or community. Analyze the problem, the style, the way they really work.

02

Build

Co-create the workflows, tools, and content that close the gap, in their voice.

03

Adopt

Land it inside their world. Their systems, their culture, their way of working, so the workflow becomes theirs to run.

04

Evolve

Capture what worked into repeatable playbooks a team can run without me.

My bag The tools behind the work
01fuser studio
02luma ai
03elevenlabs
04midjourney
05flux
06nano banana
07recraft
08higgsfield mcp
09wan 3.0
10kling
11comfyui
12fal
13claude code
14cursor
15photoshop
16illustrator
17after effects
18final cut pro
19davinci resolve
20logic pro
21figma
✦the creative foundation

Worlds around artists and brands.

Everything runs on a creative foundation. Through NANA LIFESTYLE, my creative studio, I build visual and sonic identities for artists and brands. A decade of directing, producing, and developing Grammy-nominated artists like MIKNNA, whose work earns across sponsorships, publishing, sync, merch, and streaming, shapes the way I approach every build.

See the full studio portfolionanalifestyle.com
NANA sonic identity
the creative work
Creative. Enablement. Growth.
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