A cinematic expression exploring resilience, experience
and forward momentum within the ever-changing financial
landscape of Baillie Gifford.

BLMRS was brought on to help shape the final look and compositing approach with the team at Revenant, refining the visual language of a conceptual marble run designed to express Baillie Gifford’s resilience, experience and forward momentum. Working across lighting, textures, materials and final composites, our role was to help bring cohesion, atmosphere and clarity to a world that balanced precise art direction with the unpredictability of simulated motion.

Our approach was built around the idea of predetermined resilience, expressed through the world of a marble run. At the centre of the film is a seasoned, hard-wearing marble that moves through a demanding and unpredictable landscape with confidence and precision. While the other marbles feel more impulsive and unprepared, our protagonist carries a sense of experience, intelligence and control, navigating each obstacle with purpose and emerging unscathed.

Light and shadow played a key role in shaping the final visual language. We used long shadows, dappled lighting and an undefined spatial setting to create a feeling of time passing without placing the film in a specific era. This helped us speak to Baillie Gifford’s history, experience and longevity, while still allowing the visuals to feel contemporary and forward-looking. The result was a world that felt timeless, quietly confident and rooted in experience.

In crafting the final look and composites, we wanted the motion to feel believable while placing it within an environment that balanced natural textures with carefully designed, man-made structures. These elements helped bring order to the chaos of the marble run, giving rhythm to the edit, scale to the camera work and context to the action. The environment was developed using a combination of 3D scans, sculpted geometry and detailed look development to create a world that felt tactile, grounded and cinematic.

CREDITS

CLIENT - BAILLE GIFFORD
CREATIVE AGENCY - EYEBOLLS
PRODUCTION AGENCY - REVENANT
CREATIVE DIRECTOR - KEV MCCRAE
3D ARTISTS - CRAIG SIMMERS, DANIEL HARPER & OLAF BLOMERUS
EDITING & COMPOSITING - OLAF BLOMERUS

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A cinematic expression exploring resilience, experience
and forward momentum within the ever-changing financial
landscape of Baillie Gifford.