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Dark Mediterranean

An in-progress hospitality study for a real estate agency, where the resort is hypothetical but its geometry is not: the building is modelled first, and every generated frame has to agree with the model it came from.

Year
2026
Kind
Image
Role
Concept, art direction, generative production
Frames
9:16 stills and 3x3 editorial grids

The constraint

The same building in every frame.

The set is generated from one 3D massing model, so the roofline, the step of the terraces and the position of the pool are settled before a prompt is written. Distance and light are free to move. Geometry is not, because an agency is selling something that has to be buildable.

Dusk view through dark foliage of a stepped blue lime-washed resort building on a forested hillside, one warm-lit doorway reflected in a narrow lap pool.
Camera 01 / the approach, from outside the boundary
Blue corridor of receding portals framing a candlelit lounge with white cushions, terracotta vessels and a low carved table at the far end.
Camera 05 / the entrance corridor, held on axis
Three-by-three grid of blue-hour resort frames moving from the hillside approach and pool terrace to lit windows, a laid dinner table and a single lantern.
Curated grid / nine camera positions, in order of approach
Alternate three-by-three grid of the same blue resort with sea-facing terraces, a table set against a blank wall, and a parasol standing in still water.
Superset / positions that broke continuity and were cut
A frame that flatters the site but moves a wall is worth nothing to an agency, so every image here traces back to a camera position on the model. The set is meant to be read as a document of one building, not as a mood board about blue.

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Workflow Runway / team access required

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Structure

Establishing to intimate.

The nine positions are set on the model as a walk a buyer could actually take, which is also the order an agency needs: the site first, then the building, then the room being sold.

  1. Row I

    The hillside

    The resort seen whole, through trees, from outside its own boundary. The row that has to prove the site.

  2. Row II

    The threshold

    Windows and doorways, each one a lit interior read from the cold side of the wall. The row where the elevations have to hold.

  3. Row III

    The table

    Dinner laid, loungers turned out, a lantern left on. Occupied, and empty. The row that sells the room.

How it is being built

Pipeline.

Built as a Runway workflow so the model does the deciding. The massing render conditions every generation, which leaves the prompt responsible for light and mood and nothing structural.

Model

The resort built as 3D massing first, with site, levels and sightlines resolved before any frame exists.

Position

Camera positions set on the model and numbered, so each final frame has a coordinate rather than a description.

Condition

Each position rendered out and passed into the workflow as the reference the generation has to agree with.

Verify

Frames read back against the model and cut when a wall, a level or a sightline has moved.

Grade

Warm interiors protected so they survive as the single accent against the blue.