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Cookies, Craft & New Possibilities. 🍪
Exploring new concepts, visual languages, and possibilities with AI — without the typical generative look.
Direction, craft and attention to every frame.
The macro shots of the cookie texture almost don't read as AI at all, which I'm guessing was the whole point. What's your process for avoiding that generic AI sheen everyone's gotten tired of?
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A full shoot, built from a single product photo.
I started with one flat e-commerce packshot, the same asset any brand already has, and built the rest: fabric detail, styling, and the product worn, on two models, across front, profile and back. One coherent world, one locked direction.
It works two ways: as pre-production, to explore several directions before a shoot and decide with something real in front of you, and as final, campaign-ready visuals for social and e-commerce, refined down to the detail.
And it scales in every direction: more products and full looks, several models in a single frame, different sets and moods from the same starting assets, and motion.
Find out more at https://lnkd.in/eXN3mFQE
Self-initiated project on EME STUDIOS pieces, not affiliated.
I’m closing my calendar for the coming month. If this could fit your brand, my inbox is open 📬
These are beautiful!