NFT-inspired anime trailer

Problem:

In February 2020, anime NFT project The Sevens was exploring every aspect of Web3 utility. Metaverse events, a tokens and staking program, a weekly poker tournament, and much more. NFTs brands trying to do it all isn’t anything new, with Bored Apes contemplating their weed and firearm ventures in the headlines every week. But for the public, a jack of all trades is a master of none.

The Sevens came to us to develop a positioning that would set The Sevens ahead of its competition to boost the brand's long-term value and promote their upcoming second season.

After surveying the Discord community and Sevens’ core team, our creative solution was to anchor The Sevens as an anime entertainment brand - a universe of NFT-inspired films, series, and merchandise designed to keep NFT enthusiasts in the brand's ecosystem for the long haul.

With two months till their upcoming drop, we analysed the brand’s 10K+ NFTs, established key story characters, developed a cinematic story, and established an animation art style. But this didn’t feel like enough.

The average NFT buyer is hard to excite. With daily Twitter and Discord announcements from hundreds of NFT brands, it’s become numbing. With the clock ticking, we needed to create a piece of content that built excitement for the future state of the brand within a short timeframe. Whatever we created, it needed to be short and impactful.

We created a frame-by-frame teaser trailer. With only a few seconds to hook our viewers, we designed three dramatic character scenes. Each one gives the viewer an insight into the complex world of a post-apocalyptic LA we created. To ensure that our design embodied the brand's personality, we studied thousands of Sevens NFTs and developed a unique anime-meets-the-west artistic style. This style was brought to life with fast-paced animations, detailed character designs, and a cinematic soundscape.

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Results:

Within a week of their second NFT drop, 7,000 NFTs were minted and The Sevens made US$471K.

With two months till their upcoming drop, we analysed the brand’s 10K+ NFTs, established key story characters, developed a cinematic story, and established an animation art style. But this didn’t feel like enough.

The average NFT buyer is hard to excite. With daily Twitter and Discord announcements from hundreds of NFT brands, it’s become numbing. With the clock ticking, we needed to create a piece of content that built excitement for the future state of the brand within a short timeframe. Whatever we created, it needed to be short and impactful.

We created a frame-by-frame teaser trailer. With only a few seconds to hook our viewers, we designed three dramatic character scenes. Each one gives the viewer an insight into the complex world of a post-apocalyptic LA we created. To ensure that our design embodied the brand's personality, we studied thousands of Sevens NFTs and developed a unique anime-meets-the-west artistic style. This style was brought to life with fast-paced animations, detailed character designs, and a cinematic soundscape.

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Results:

Within a week of their second NFT drop, 7,000 NFTs were minted and The Sevens made US$471K.

GreenLight is listed at a US$1.2B valuation despite the headwinds and will be bringing its first product to market in the coming year.

NASDAQ: GreenLight Biosciences

Structuring highly technical information for sophisticated biotech investors for a NASDAQ listing

Problem: GreenLight Biosciences develops RNA solutions for some of the world’s existential problems: famine, disease and environment. They have a unique problem; their breakthroughs to previously insurmountable scientific problems were so novel, it was difficult to believe.

With the Theranos scandal unfolding daily on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, and SPACs decidedly “on-the-nose”, the investor presentation not only had to diligently capture the facts, but present the science in a way that captivated sceptical minds.

Together with the GreenLight corporate affairs and science teams, we worked around the clock (literally) and combed through close to 1,000 pages, reviewing every single image, table and graph to make sure that the information was as clear as possible. If not, we built new visualisations of the data so that it was comprehensible with the least amount of cognitive load. On completion, a distillation of 56 slides was provided to investors and the SEC.

HUTCHMED’s Hong Kong listing opened at US$537M and saw a jump in share prices of 53%.

HKEX: HUTCHMED

Attracting retail investors with an innovative scientific pipeline

Problem: HUTCHMED creates drugs for patients suffering from rare cancers, offering relief to those with few options to turn to. Their innovation team of scientists have developed groundbreaking drugs. But the average investor wants to invest in a company they understand, not distant, complex science.

With 10 in-house developed drug candidates, over 40 global clinical trials, and a company of 4,600 employees, we needed to present the company’s many achievements in an accessible video for their Hong Kong listing.

Working with HUTCHMED executives, we executed a brand film from start to finish. We developed a script with a clear structure that showcased the company’s impressive science but focused primarily on the dedicated team who makes it happen. We catalogued HUTCHMED’s library, made up of 20 years of footage, which we then utilised throughout the film. We also directed shoots across Hong Kong and China to showcase the capabilities of the executive team. We brought all these assets, including sleek animations from our in-house animator, together for a five-minute video that was published along with the company’s listing.

Within a week of season two launch, 7,000 NFTs were minted and The Sevens made US$471K.

NFT Drop: The Sevens

Building an engrossing narrative for a Web3 company’s NFT drop

Problem: The Sevens was one of the biggest NFT projects ever upon their launch. However, an error in the minting process allowed one user to purchase 1,000 Sevens NFTs. The intended limit was one NFT per person. Despite the honest mistake, this destroyed trust in the brand and gave them the dreaded label of “rug-pull.”

However, The Sevens had no intention to take the money and run. They came to us to develop a long-term positioning for the brand that would help restore trust and promote their upcoming second season.

After surveying the Discord community and core team, we pinpointed the next stage for The Sevens; an anime-inspired entertainment universe. We would provide concrete value to the public with a compelling story that pulled on their heartstrings. With two months till the season launch, we analysed the brand’s 10K+ NFTs, established key story characters, developed a cinematic world, established an animation art style, and created an animated teaser trailer that featured all these components. This long-term brand direction is meant to repair perceptions about The Sevens, and establish more meaningful brand connections with NFT buyers.