A man crouched by a villa pool as a small white dog leaps for a tennis ball, made with VantageKV

Case study · White villa with planted terraces and a pool

The garden villa and the dog

A reference shot indoors with the wrong dog, moved outside to a villa garden and recast in plain words: shirt buttoned, shih tzu jumping for the ball.

First session: 3 min
Runs: 6
Key visuals: 8
Credits: 960

In short

This key visual was made from one CGI render of a white villa with planted terraces and one reference photo of a man playing with a big brown dog indoors. VantageKV moved the moment outside to the villa’s pool terrace, then recast it in plain words: “make the dog a shih tzu”, “close his shirt”, “jumping to catch the ball”. The first version took about 3 minutes of focused work; the whole study is 6 runs and 960 credits.

What went in

The original CGI render: a white villa with trailing plants over its terraces, the garden empty

The reference: a man playing with a large brown dog on a living room floor

The first thing typed

“Take the light, mood, photography style and action from the reference. make the dog a shih tzu”

Word for word, typos and all. Claude turned it into a full art direction from the render; the building itself was never described.

Building: White villa with planted terraces and a pool
Look: Editorial, then Film stock

The session

Every run, in the words that made it.

0 min
“Take the light, mood, photography style and action from the reference. make the dog a shih tzu”
The reference was indoors, with a big brown dog. The play, the low camera and the warmth came across; the room and the dog did not.
2 min
“make the dog a shih tzu, make it happy and playful”
Switched to the Film stock look for a warmer, grainier grade. Better, but the open shirt was not right for the brand.
Three days later
“close his shirt, make the dog standing and happy”
Morning light from the time of day strip. Asking for a standing dog brought the reference's breed back, so it was specified again.
Same session
“close his shirt, make the dog a shih tzu, jumping to catch the ball”
The hero. The dog in the air, the ball an inch from its mouth, the villa sharp behind them.

Before a credit was spent

The art direction, in five lines anyone can check.

Claude writes a full art direction for the image model, and the Studio shows it back as five plain lines. Any line can be switched before rendering. These are the five lines behind the final key visual.

Camera: almost on the ground, wide, looking up
People: one man playing with a small dog
Light: mid morning sun, crisp and clear
Motion: dog mid jump, slight paw blur
Colour: warm film tones, soft greens

The campaign

One session. Everywhere the launch runs.

The garden villa and the dog

Site hoarding, 21:9

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Stories, 9:16

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Feed post, 1:1

The residence

The garden villa and the dog

Brochure spread, 3:2

Layouts are mockups built from this session’s frames, cropped to fit. In the Studio every format, 21:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 3:2, is rendered at its own shape, so nothing important is cut off.

What made it work

Recasting is a sentence.

The breed, the shirt and the action all changed by asking, with no reshoot and no retouching.

Say everything you still want.

When the dog stood up it went back to the reference's breed, because the brief no longer named it. Keeping every wish in the brief keeps every wish in the image.

Pets sell homes.

A garden is a list of square metres until something plays in it.

Questions