Ad Campaign · Atelier Noir · 2025
Atelier Noir — Fragrance Film
A 30-second cinematic film for a luxury fragrance launch — entirely AI-generated, finished in-house.
- Client
- Atelier Noir
- Year
- 2025
- Category
- Ad Campaign
- Scope
- 5 deliverables
A house known for its restraint asked us to translate a single word — patience — into thirty seconds of moving image. The result is a quiet, almost devotional film: glass, breath, amber light, and the suggestion of a body without ever showing one.
The brief landed in late autumn. The perfumer had spent two years on the formula and wanted the launch film to feel like the scent itself: warm, slow, and a little secretive. We spent the first week not generating a single image — just listening, smelling, reading the brand's reference library, and writing.
From there we built three visual directions and carried one forward: an interior shot in winter light, with a single bottle catching late afternoon sun. Every hero frame was generated and re-generated until the glass behaved like glass — the small inaccuracies that betray AI imagery were chased out one by one in a five-pass refinement loop.
Motion was the final layer. We treated the still frames as plates, animated transitions between them with controlled camera moves, and graded the final piece in DaVinci Resolve to a custom score by an in-house composer. The film shipped on time and ran across paid social, the brand's homepage, and a 90-second cinema cut for selected European markets.
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Process
- 01
Concept
We translated the perfumer's brief into three visual directions, anchored in scent memory and material texture.
- 02
Style frames
Twelve hero stills were generated, then graded against the brand's reference palette of bone, ash, and amber.
- 03
Motion
Selected frames were animated into seamless loops and edited to a custom score, then finished in DaVinci Resolve.
- 04
Delivery
Master file, six paid-social cutdowns, hero stills, and a 90s cinema cut delivered in a single drop.
It's the first launch film we've made that I want to keep watching. They understood the brand before they touched a single tool.
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