Case 01 — Self-initiated concept

AVELUM

A reveal engineered so the world would want a car it had never seen move.

Vertical
Automotive — EV hypercar
Role
Direction, WebGL, build
Year
MMXXVI
Status
Self-initiated concept

01 — The problem

A stealth EV startup had one attempt to matter: a 1,400 bhp hypercar from a company nobody had heard of, revealing against marques with a century of mythology behind them. A spec sheet would have been compared. A film could be believed.

The brief we set ourselves: make a car nobody has driven feel inevitable — before a single journalist touches it.

02 — The creative bet

Never show the car until the visitor has earned it.

We treated the reveal as cinema, not catalogue. Aerodynamics, torque and silence — the three arguments for this car — are dramatized as light and motion long before sheet metal appears. The silhouette stays unseen; the visitor assembles desire from evidence.

03 — The experience

Frame 01

Airflow

Scroll-scrubbed streamlines wrap an unseen silhouette. You read the body from what the air does to it — drag, rendered as light.

Frame 02

Assembly

At the climax the car builds itself panel by panel in one held shot, each element arriving with the weight of a door closing.

Frame 03

EV quiet

A near-silent chapter. The interface stills, the soundbed drops to room tone, and the only motion left is a slow heartbeat of headlight. Silence, staged as a feature.

Airflow study — the body read from what the air does to itFIG. 01 — STREAMLINES / SCROLL-SCRUBBEDSILHOUETTE WITHHELD

04 — The outcome

42,000

reveal-day reservations

4:50

average session length

0

photographs — the car was code

Concept work — outcomes are modelled targets, not measured results.

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