The ask
Savior Heat makes Bluetooth-controlled heated gloves, built for people who need their hands warm in genuinely brutal cold. The brief was a 30-second film for a US audience, built around two scenes that had to feel cold on sight: a woman riding a motorcycle through snow, a man skiing through a whiteout. The catch: no travel budget, no snow within reach, and a deadline that didn't allow for weather.
The approach
We shot the parts that had to be real, and generated the parts that didn't need to exist yet. Talent and product were filmed in-studio against green screen for the close and mid shots. The one physical effect on set was a wind machine. The wide establishing shots were never filmed as footage at all. They're generated entirely from still images captured during that same studio session, turned into motion by AI. The two techniques were then cut together into one continuous 30-second film. The hardest problem wasn't making the snow look convincing. It was making sure live-action and AI-generated footage looked like they came from the same camera on the same day, solved with a shared grading pass and LUT so skin tone, cold-light temperature, and contrast hold steady shot to shot.
Why it matters
This wasn't a one-off trick shot. It's a repeatable production path. Any product whose story depends on an environment (winter apparel, outdoor gear, adventure kit) can be filmed against the same studio wall and dropped into whatever climate, terrain, or season the brief calls for, without waiting on a weather window, a location scout, or a flight. The studio becomes the only fixed variable. The world around it is built to order.
The path to launch
- 01 Green-screen talent & product (close/mid)
- 02 Wind machine for motion and cold
- 03 Stills captured in the same session
- 04 AI-generated wide/establishing shots from stills
- 05 Shared grading / LUT across live-action and AI
- 06 Final 30″ cut
Outcome
- 1 × 30" Campaign film delivered
- Zero Location shoot days