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[YT VIDEO] With Envato variants were generated. Human judgment turned it into the real promo campaign. In collaboration with my big br @Yanush Zetea.
For the Human by Design Challenge, we created DABLZ promo, a conceptual bag brand campaign inspired by Berlin nightlife, urban fashion, and rap culture.
Using Envato, we built a lot of video scenes which were transformed into 30-second teaser.
To make a complete promotional campaign we created:
- Posters
- Social content
- Sound design
- Landing page (DABLZ.SITE) - made with Codex help
AI helped us explore scenes and compositions, but the key decision was changing the first concept from a music video into a real product story.
Knowing what to keep, change, and remove made the difference.
Kudos to people from @Envato and @Contra!
Wow bro, absolutely love it 🔥
We came up with a quite unusual idea, but we liked the result. Hope you'll like it, too 🙌
god bless my goated big br
wow! love the atmosphere in this clip, especially the wide angle shots 🔥
thanks bro! we wanted to play around with the shots!
thanks maaaan!
really cool intro
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awesome! XD