Sidebar Speaker Series: Stand Out With AI Videos: Create a Holiday or Resume Cartoon Video with Danny Beck
This holiday season, skip the stress of family photo shoots, postcard designs, and mailing lists—and create something far more memorable: a personalized Holiday Cartoon Video starring your family.
In this session, you'll learn how to:
Craft a simple storyline
Use AI to design characters that actually resemble you and your family
Generate animated scenes with modern image and video models
Stitch those scenes together into a fun, shareable holiday video
You’ll leave with:
A step-by-step workflow you can reuse
Recommended tools for image and video generation
Prompt templates tailored specifically for visual storytelling
This talk was inspired by Danny’s experience building a Cartoon Resume Video using AI. While we’ll focus on creating a holiday video, the same approach can help you create your own cartoon resume—an eye-catching way to stand out with recruiters, hiring managers, and on LinkedIn.
Speaker Bio:
Danny Beck is the Founder of Pastell, an AI platform that turns spoken family stories into illustrated picture books for kids. He is a product executive with 15+ years of experience leading AI-driven software and software-powered hardware products, with early roots in investment banking and corporate strategy. His background spans Autonomous Vehicles (Monarch Tractor), eCommerce (Rivian, Volkswagen Group), and FinTech (Capital One).
Danny specializes in building and scaling new products from zero to one and beyond—launching multiple businesses that have generated more than $100M in revenue. He has built and led teams across product, design, engineering, and analytics, and is known for bringing deep customer empathy and technical rigor to complex AI and robotics problems.