Check out our award-winning work in digital, commercial, print and emerging media.
This is our collection of 360 branded campaigns, social, live events + OOH, iterative advertising, digital marketing, animation, visual effects and immersive experiences.
In addition to established marketing content – we’ve embraced new technologies and experiential advertising to connect and communicate with a rapidly evolving audience.
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Claude VonStroke - Who’s Afraid of Detroit?
Lusine - Just A Cloud
Anxiety sucks! For those afflicted, it can feel like an irritating FLY trapped in your brain – making all that is peaceful, calm and serene – sick, worried and tormented. Produced with the AMHA and debuted for Mental Health Month, “Fly Guy” is a surreal imagining of this struggle and is for anyone who deals with generalized anxiety disorder.
Created with 3D scans, models, and live action miniatures – the film is a mix of CG and practical elements.
Video Released by Claude Vonstroke for his collab with Marc Houle on Dirty Bird records.
Written and Directed by Damien Christian D’Amico
Original music by Damien Christian D’Amico
Narrated by Peter Baker
Produced by Melody Misiaszek
Audio by Jason Martinez
Produced by Vaylian studios
Opening title sequence the for television show, JC Tha Barber. Series features DJ Khaled, 2 Chainz, Chris Brown, NBA stars, and celebs, including Amber Rose. Symbolically, the opening titles build on JC's rise to fame. Project includes custom 3D Modeling in ZBrush, Cinema 4D character animation, and motion tracking.
Directed by Damien Christian D'Amico, Vaylian
Produced by Bud Brutsman, BCII
Post-production by Vaylian
Song Title: MAHARAJA
Claude Vonstroke, acclaimed producer and founder of one of the top indie electronic music record labels in the world––Dirtybird, approached Vaylian to create a music video for the release of his new track “MAHARAJA.”
“MAHARAJA” is the first single off Claude’s album “Live In Detroit,” which was recorded during his headline set at Movement in the motor city.
Inspired by the classic electro break sound of his Detroit heritage, the official video of Claude’s genre-blending “Maharaja” features mind-bending visuals and dancers evoking imagery of a cross between Salvador Dali, Tron and Beat Street.
Directed by: Damien Christian D'Amico, Vaylian
Executive Producer: Melody Misiaszek
Produced by: Christopher Pitcher
Director of Photography: Dave McDonald
Camera Operator: Brennan Towle
Dancers: Kaycee Jannino, Girvan ‘Swirv’ Bramble, Victor Guillen & Kenan Kreis
Post-Production by: Vaylian
CC Attribution: Miguel Bandera - Graffitied Stairs scanned/modeled
Collection of Social and National Campaign spots for Taco Bell – including the 2019 MLB World Series “Steal a Base, Steal a Taco” campaign. 14M+ views
Collection of work includes:
Psychedelic Veggie Kaleidoscope campaign directed by Damien – for Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
National commercials and social compliments for World Series ‘SABSAT’ campaign.
Social Media ‘Party Pack’ spots
Director of VFX for Vegetarian Menu broadcast commercials.
Direction of Motion Graphics/ VFX by Damien D’Amico
Produced by Deutsch | Steelhead
For Deutsch Telekom’s TMTM 2020 event, Damien D’Amico was brought on to direct the show opener and interstitial graphics program. A CG fly-through of T-Mobil’s achievements and accolades was viewed on large scale (6K) LED projections as a backdrop to a live orchestral performance.
Damien led a team of animators and modelers to produce this 2 min, wide-format motion graphics spot marking the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Directed by Damien Christian D’Amico
Produced by Vossler Media
Epic Games launched a brand new season of the insanely popular Fortnite video game. Damien D’Amico lead the initiative to ‘tease’ it’s arrival in the most epic way possible: A Times Square takeover!
Emotions ran high throughout the gaming world, when Fortnite was literally sucked into a black hole. This caused pandemonium and outrage from Players unable to access the game for 48 hours.
During these two days Times Square was taken over by the ominous black hole, projected across every major digital billboard in sight.
Damien brought the experience out-of-home, creating large scale media exports across a variety billboard sizes.
On the final day, a “sneak peak” of the new Season 11 was broadcast across all the Times Square billboards, just as Fortnite went back online around the globe.
Damien and his team – under extreme secrecy – had just a matter of days to create, prepare, and export the large format media content for the OOH launch.
Director, Motion + VFX - Damien Christian D’Amico
Produced by Steelhead
Winner of the 2018 Lumiere Award for “Best Brand Experience.” Featuring Denis Leary | 4M + views
Captured in full 360º for the first time ever, is the journey of a stock Ford F-150 Raptor for the Baja 1000.
To capture this race, production lasted over 50 straight hours. Filming lasted through the pre-race, the entire 1000-mile trek, and even after the event ended. Just as the racers endured no sleep, so did the film crew.
Over twenty large-format cameras were installed and running during key parts of the race, along with environment capture from 360º drone footage and spatial photogrammetry. Preparations for such an ambitious project involved photo scanning both the truck's interior and exterior, to support an involved post-production workflow of compositing, rotoscoping, and visual effects.
To bring the vibrant night-scapes to life, a layered process of capturing scenes with multiple exposures, all taken at the same time, was applied. For the viewer, this means seeing bright starry night skies, coupled with properly exposed race vehicles.
Narration by Denis Leary
Directed by Damien D'Amico, Vaylian
Produced by Greg Glass + Bud Brutsman, BCII
Managed by GTB
Post-Production by Vaylian
We conceptualized, designed and executed Johnson Controls’ campaign for the AAPEX + SEMA shows in tandem with Microsoft’s MRPP.
Johnson Controls, the world’s leading automotive battery manufacturer, commissioned booth-wide marketing content for their largest event of the year. Including video, print, giveaways and a holographic experience viewed on the Microsoft HoloLens.
This was the first ever branded narrative experience for the Microsoft HoloLens and was the center piece of the AAPEX/SEMA show floor. Ushering in a whole new way to visualize the inner-workings of JCI’s premium batteries, the mixed reality HoloLens program brought the 100 year old company into the future while showing attendees products still in their concept phase.
In addition to the HoloLens program, we produced supplemental advertising video and booth wide holographic installations which drew lines of attendees - creating buzz through-out the entire event.
The program was a smash hit at the AAPEX show, it was nominated for an Auggie Award, won a Fox Sports Media Award, earned Vaylian a place within Microsoft’s MRPP and introduced the next wave of brand edutainment to a captive audience of hundreds of thousands over five days.
Creative Direction + Art Direction by Damien D’Amico
App Design, Development, and Architecture by Damien D’Amico
Produced by Greg Glass + BCII
Coding by Distant Point
Vaylian worked with Volvo to create their first ever live-streaming Augmented Reality search results, for the new Google Lens feature.
Google is launching an entirely new modality of search to seamlessly blend digital content into the real world. If someone searches for a Volvo vehicle, now they could pull up an AR-enabled photorealistic model of a car, and place onto their driveway, to preview the vehicle at life scale!
Vaylian Studios and Slash Dynamic turned the Volvo S90 into a live-streamable AR-ready search asset, to publicly launch with Google at their 2019 I/O conference. You can read more about the search feature, here.
Project Lead: Damien Christian D'Amico, Vaylian
Produced by: Tanya Cohen, Slash Dynamic
Vaylian Studios accepted the exciting challenge of building a first-ever Augmented Reality teeth previewing app for the Dental Industry.
This was a complete 360 campaign – building not only the client’s product, but also designing and producing the web site, business cards, brochures, videos, animations and banners for all live events and sales initiatives.
The Janus Health AR App was designed exclusively for the latest version of the iPad Pro, to allow for full facial recognition and scanning. This allows the App to virtually place fully 3D teeth models directly onto the face of the App User, for a live-streaming real time pre-visualization of dental restorations. This allows Dentists to share a competent visualization of what their patients will look like after the dental procedure has been completed, during the consultation phase! Now patients that have missing or severely damaged teeth can INSTANTLY see what their new veneers or implants will look like before they commit to the dental work.
The software lets patients try on a variety of smile styles. Dentists and patients can easily adjust the shade, lip line and color of the teeth. The App utilizes the iPad’s infrared facial tracking to generate complete 3-dimensional sets of teeth that conform to each patient’s unique features. This enables the 3D “implants” to move with the patient’s head and articulate with their jaw – making for the most dynamic example of dental pre-viz software ever released.
Vaylian loves helping enterprise business reach their goals by bringing ‘shoot-for-the-moon’ ideas to life, and enhancing them beyond the original scope to make them the best they can be.
Creative Directed and Art Directed by Damien D’Amico
These experiences mark the first-ever interactive 360º videos for the popular social media platform, Thrillist.
Supporting the launch of the 2018 Toyota 86, we created a fully immersive piece on the new web platform Viar360. This was a live-streaming, choose-your-own-adventure style experience that allowed you to pick the roads you wanted to drive and click to discover different places to explore. Plus, you get an inside scoop on where to eat.
Shot during the wettest season California had in decades, some digital magic had to happen for that sunny coastal feel. The production process involved hood-mounted 360º video capture, which was later composited in scene with a CG car model. Brining the scene to completion, we composited both the Driver and Passenger into the car which were shot on two separate interior mounted cameras. Shot at the time of the year when days were at their shortest, night to day conversion was applied to key sections of the tour.
Directed by Damien Christian D'Amico, Vaylian
Produced by Spectacle VR
Post-production by Vaylian
We helped BFGoodrich create a spectacle at SEMA.
In addition to video content, installations and giveaway merch, we created the BFG - App complete with two VR experiences.
These commercial pieces were premiered at the SEMA tradeshow booth in Las Vegas and developed for the Samsung GEAR VR headset.
One of the VR spots has you riding shotgun with legendary racer and four-time Baja 1000 champaion, Rob MacCachren, through the raw Mexico terrain.
Combatting the vibrations and shake that comes from driving off-road at 110MPH, was not the easiest thing to pull off. Custom rigs and cinema-grade camera configurations were carefully applied. We worked with Rob's race team to weld solid mounts directly to the vehicle, to ensure the best stability possible for the Baja 500 project.
The second VR experience puts viewers behind-the-wheel of two different vehicles, for a run through the test track at their "Are you Driver Enough?" event in Boston Massachusetts.
Directed by Damien Christian D'Amico, Vaylian
Produced by Greg Glass, BCII
Post-production + VFX by Vaylian
Hit attraction of the 2016 SEMA show, Vaylian and BCII created a fully immersive stereoscopic VR experience for OPTIMA Batteries. OPTIMA commissioned six virtual reality pieces to draw in booth visitors for the annual auto show.
Five of OPTIMA's Power Pro Ambassadors took viewers on a virtual ride along in their race or sport vehicles. From burning rubber on the M1 Concourse to gliding across Lake Vermillion, each spot is a different experience. In addition to these five pieces, a travel through the history of OPTIMA as a company, was also created.
Vaylian also designed and developed a VR App to make the viewing experience that much more streamlined. Recently nominated as the 'Best VR App of 2017' by Cynopsis Media Awards. This App is available on the Oculus Store for GEAR VR, Google Play, and the Apple Store.
Directed by Damien Christen D'Amico, Vaylian
Produced by Greg Glass, BCII
Post Production + VFX by Vaylian
This short film blends reality and fantasy as it journeys through one man’s mind as he attempts to rid himself of his own creativity.
Carrot is a winner of a Best Shorts Competition Award and has screened at several festivals including the London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantasy Film, Hollywood Reel Independent, and ZEDFest. The film also toured in Europe with distributor Kinolife.
Written and Directed by Damien Christian D'Amico
Supporting a large marketing campaign for Magnaflow, multiple commercial pieces were designed for broadcast and online consumption. Additionally, an environmental display was created to premiere at the 2015 SEMA show in Las Vegas. This looping video stretched across three large vertically arranged LED screens, mounted to the Magnaflow booth.
The 3-Screen SEMA Display takes full advantage of the format, and brought a whole new viewing experience to the show floor.
Commercial spots feature legendary motorcycle designer Arlen Ness and champion drifter Von Gittin Jr. Both one-minute and 30-second versions were created for the campaign, along with docu-style shorts that offer a close up look at these brand ambassadors.
Directed by Damien Christian D'Amico
Produced by Bud Brutsman | Greg Glass, BCII
Post-production by Vaylian
The Oakland-based band Lecherous Gaze wanted a video that matched the dark and otherworldly sonics of their vocalist Zaryan Zadi and guitarist Graham Clise.
The music video for the song "New Distortion" takes viewers on a David Lynch-inspired drive by haunted roadside memorials, where corpses fly and heavy riffs ride.
Shot guerrilla style in a variety of locations including a derelict oil refinery and an abandoned train station built in the 1800's.
The ghostly corpses were created through displacement mapping. Photographs were taken of actors and broken into several layers, to create Francis Bacon-esque moving images.
Directed by Damien Christian D'Amico
Production and Post-production by Vaylian
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To support the global launch of luxury transportation service, a cinematic 30-second "reveal" commercial was created for Bearing.
Directed by Damien Christian D'Amico, Vaylian
Produced by Greg Glass, BCII
Written by Grenadier
Post-Production by Vaylian