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AI is a production tool. Taste is still the job.

Campaign-quality imagery and film, without a full production budget.

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/01What it is

Campaign-quality imagery and film, without a full production budget.

The tools are the same for everyone, which is exactly why the output is not. Cheap AI content is a briefing problem, not a technology problem: without a brand world to work inside, a generative model will produce the average of everything it has seen.

So we build the world first, then generate inside it. Palette, casting, light, texture, framing and tone, written down and enforced. That is the difference between AI content that looks like your brand and AI content that looks like everyone's.

01Generative campaign imagery
02AI film and VFX
03Custom brand models
04Product visualisation
05Volume content systems
06Direction and QC
/02Illustration

Not every brand world is photographic.

Illustration is the other half of this.

A drawn world can go places a shoot cannot: a character can be recast, aged, dressed and re-staged for the price of a brief, and it never ages out of a contract. For brands with a cast rather than a spokesperson, that matters.

The studies below are self-initiated. The character set is our own, and the run from illustration to product to photography is there to show the same idea holding its shape across all three.

An illustrated character cast in AndMelo-branded clothing, lined up against a studio backdrop
A cast, not a spokesperson
The same illustrated characters staged in a dark apartment interior watching a news broadcast
The same cast, re-staged
Illustration study: a figure in tailoring riding a winged horse through a pastel city
Rendered illustration
Line-led illustration study: a cyclist passing a low white building
Line-led, flatter register
Illustration of a character on a bicycle wearing the printed tee and carrying a paper-round bag
The idea, drawn
Photographic frame of the same printed tee worn on the street
The same idea, photographed

Self-initiated illustration studies. Not commissioned by, affiliated with or endorsed by any brand.

/03The Built Environment

High-quality AI imagery for the built environment.

Some sectors have almost no usable library.

Property, facilities management and services businesses tend to be stuck with the same few thousand stock photographs, which is why so many of them look identical. Shooting the alternative means access to buildings that are occupied, in use and often private, plus crews, permits and insurance.

So we build the environment instead: lobbies, workspaces, atriums, plant and residential interiors, with the right people doing the right work in them, generated to a brand’s own palette and uniform rather than to a stock library’s.

A commercial lobby atrium with turnstiles and a full-height glazed elevation
Commercial lobby
A uniformed operative cleaning a reception turnstile in an occupied building
Front of house, in use
Two operatives working across an occupied office floor with a city skyline behind
Occupied workspace
An operative with a backpack vacuum working a glazed office corridor
Circulation space
An operative cleaning a dark residential kitchen
Residential
An operative running a rotary floor machine across a school hall
Public sector

Generated imagery, made for brands that cannot easily shoot the spaces they work in.

We kept the working out.

Before any of this was a service line it was an experiment. GENESIS is an open archive of 191 concepting pieces from that phase, published with the prompt fragments that produced them — not as portfolio, but as a record of how the art direction was actually arrived at.

It is a fair way to judge whether someone knows what to ask a generator for, which is most of the job.

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