Walking with Giants

A speculative campaign for Tesla built around a single question: how does a legacy industrial era end? Not with destruction, not with replacement. With something quieter and more inevitable. The piece imagines the moment a new world arrives without announcing itself, while the old giants are still standing.
Hand-drawn storyboards came first: forty-four frames mapping every shot before any pixel was generated. From there, AI cinematography rendered the world in anamorphic 2.39:1, the format we designed for from the start. The film was cut and finished in Premiere Pro. Sound design carried the philosophical weight: no combustion at all, only EV recordings, EMF textures, Shepard tones, and a custom narrator we called The Chronicler. Matheus Bertin built the score around silence as much as sound.
The directorial idea was simple: giants don't fall. They get walked past. Steel. Fire. Power. The film shows a world built in their shadow, and the small, quiet machine that no longer needs them. The mood is myth, the medium is cinema, the underlying truth is engineering.
A sixty-second cinematic brand film built without a traditional production crew, at the scale and finish a Tesla launch would demand. Old giants still standing. New giants quietly arriving. The work is the argument.
Silver47th Annual Telly Award · Non-Broadcast · Craft–Use of Generative AI · View on Telly Awards ↗
- DirectorAndrew Vado
- Executive ProducerDanny Quick
- Sound Design & MixMatheus Bertin
- StudioLittle Rebel Studios
- PipelineHand-drawn storyboards · Nano Banana · Photoshop · Veo 3 · Premiere Pro