Tom Mackellar.
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The work, finished and in full.

Three real pieces, shown here start to finish — the finished ad, and a look at how each one was actually made. All three are self-directed demonstration work, built around real products as creative case studies rather than commissioned briefs — none of the brands shown asked for, endorsed, or are affiliated with this work, and no client relationship should be assumed.

Kindred Skin — Green Studio

12.5 seconds · 1920×1080 · 24fps · delivered 2026-07-21

A product ad for the facial-oil brand Kindred Skin, built around one idea: a single drop’s journey — bottle to air to skin and back to bottle — through a warm, golden-hour forest-green studio world. No face, no hands shown; the product and the material carry the whole piece.

How it was made

The brief locked a single through-line before anything was generated — one drop’s journey from bottle to skin and back — shot as four continuous camera moves (a push-in, a macro fall, a tracking bloom, a settle) with no hard cuts, joined by a literal match-cut between the falling drop and its landing. The first cut came back with notes — more camera movement, a faster feel, and a landing that didn’t yet read as contact — so the revision added movement to every shot, tightened the pace, and rebuilt the landing to visibly detach, fall, and land; that revised cut, carrying a bespoke cello-and-strings score built for the piece, is what’s shown here.

Production still: the amber Kindred Skin bottle centred in the forest-green studio, fine dust catching the warm key light.
Production still — the hero shot’s locked framing.
Production still: an alternate take of the hero shot, the bottle lit by a harder raking beam from the upper left.
Production still — an alternate lighting take.
Case study — self-directed demo

Dyson Supersonic — Hypermotion

8–10 seconds · 1080×1920 · vertical

A self-directed demo piece, not a Dyson commission — built to prove that Higgsfield’s hypermotion generation can produce a premium-commercial-grade cut from a locked product and brand reference, using Dyson’s own real product photography as that reference. No model, no lifestyle set — the hardware itself, shot like precision engineering, carries the whole ad.

How it was made

Built on Higgsfield’s hypermotion preset, conditioned on Dyson’s own real product and brand photography as locked reference. The camera language mirrors the product’s own function — an orbit reveal of the bladeless motor and halo ring, then a push straight through the ring itself, selling “engineered airflow” kinetically rather than as a caption — before a beat on a strand of hair staying glossy and undamaged, the actual claim behind the piece. Trimmed to the strongest 8–10 seconds, closing on a locked pack shot with the tagline “Fast drying. Without extreme heat.” and a fully procedurally-synthesized sound design, not a licensed track.

Exo Hand — Hypermotion

10 seconds · 1920×1080 · 24fps · delivered 2026-07-21

A technical product-showcase piece for a cable-driven hand exoskeleton, built to demonstrate its precision, articulation, and dexterity. Nine shots in ten seconds, cut hard and fast, on a clean, cool-lit studio void — the mechanism is the hero throughout.

How it was made

A nine-shot, ten-second hypermotion reel, every shot image-conditioned on the same reference hardware to hold it identical throughout — an extreme-macro cold open on the wrist actuator and a taut cable, then a run of grip demonstrations (a power grip on a bottle, an envelope grip on a ball, a precision pinch on a thin peg) intercut with a bullet-time freeze on a single knuckle joint and a speed-ramped rotation reveal of the full assembly. Kinetic, HUD-style readouts (“15 articulated joints,” “full range · 1:1 tendon drive”) snap on and off with the cuts, and the reel closes on a locked pack shot under the end card “Engineered dexterity” — cut to exact timing with hard cuts and two whip transitions, scored with an original, procedurally-synthesized track built for the piece.

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