A dirt-bike rider in a white number 47 jersey races down a misty forest trail through shafts of light.

Creative studio — Toronto — 6+ years in multimedia design

Human-directed. AI-powered.

Campaign film and stills. Human direction sets the idea, AI renders it, and every frame is perfected by hand with 6+ years of design.

See the work

Self-initiated concepts, plus client work for Amstaff and XForm.

Human-directedRendered by AIPerfected by hand6+ years of design behind itThe same brand in every frame

The gap

Studios are slow and costly. Raw AI is sloppy. Sanvorra works in the gap.

Six weeks of schedule before the first frame.

Speed
Craft
First frame
About six weeks
Frame 40 vs frame 1
Matches, after a reshoot

Beautiful work, but slow and costly: six weeks, a crew, a location and a reshoot budget before you see a frame.

An early generation: a young man eats ice cream among older spectators in flat daylight.Another early generation: a different cast under different light, headline 'Made for the Moment'.

What no rig looks like: two early Wurdy's generations. New cast, new light.

Speed
Craft
First frame
Minutes
Frame 40 vs frame 1
Rarely the same person

Fast, and sloppy. Warped type, bent hands, a look like everyone else's feed, and frame twelve has forgotten frame one.

The photo your competitor found first.

Speed
Craft
First frame
An afternoon of searching
Frame 40 vs frame 1
Different shoot, different people

An afternoon of searching for a photo your competitor already licensed.

Finished Wurdy's frame: 'Scoop On.', the woman in the headscarf with the green tub.A second finished Wurdy's frame, 'It has to be Wurdy's': the same woman, seat and light.

Two finished frames, one rig. Same woman, same seat, same light.

Speed
Craft
First frame
48–72 hours
Frame 40 vs frame 1
Locked in the rig

Both fixed. Human direction sets the idea, AI renders it fast, and every frame is perfected by hand. The speed of AI, the craft of a studio, the same brand in every frame.

AI brings the speed.
The craft stays human.

Aston & Vance ad: a red-bearded man in a green overcoat and tweed suit sits in a carved chair in a wood-panelled study, backgammon and chess at his feet. 'Unapologetically crafted.'
Odynis ad: a knight's steel helmet in profile wearing lilac Odynis headphones.

Recent work — Aston & Vance, Odynis.

Who does what

Human-directed. AI-rendered.
Human-perfected.

Not one prompt and done. The thinking before and the craft after are human, built on 6+ years of hands-on design, on site and in the studio, long before AI. In between, AI does the heavy lifting.

Who does the work

Who is in charge

Before AI · Human

The thinking.

  • The concept and the creative direction, worked until one idea is worth a whole campaign.
  • Cast, wardrobe, light, lens and grade, locked in a rig before anything renders.
  • The core decisions: what the brand says, and what it never says.

In between · AI

The heavy lifting.

  • Every frame rendered against the locked rig, not a loose prompt.
  • Every format: 16:9, 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16.
  • Stadiums at night, flipping taxis, knights in armchairs: shots no normal shoot budget could stage.
  • A human chooses which frames survive. Most don't.

After AI · Human

The perfecting.

  • Edited by hand in Photoshop: warped type rebuilt, bent shapes and hands corrected.
  • The product checked against the real thing: label, colour, proportions.
  • Graded, typeset and signed off at professional grade, one frame at a time.

AI renders.
Everything else is human.

Selected work 03

Three campaigns. Zero drift.

Amstaff is client work. Wurdy's and SKÖG are brands the studio invented to stress-test the rig, held to the same standard. Every asset was finished by hand. Open any card for the full case.

01 / Food & beverage / Concept / 2026

Wurdy's

Make a tub of vanilla the only thing worth watching.

11
Stills
1
Film
4
Formats

The callNight, not daylight.

A dark grandstand of spectators in hats and sunglasses; one woman in a headscarf eats ice cream from a green tub.

02 / Beauty / Concept / 2026

SKÖG

A Scandinavian serum that should look grown, not made.

2
Stills
1
Film
16:9
Format

The callForest floor, not a studio sweep.

An amber SKÖG serum bottle with an oak cap stands on wet moss in a forest.

03 / Fitness / Client / 2025

Amstaff

Sell a weighted vest to people who already think they train hard.

18
Assets
3
Formats
0:39
Hero film

The callA ridge, not a gym.

A runner in a black weighted vest on a mountain ridge at golden hour.

The range

Same cast. Same light. Every format.

Campaign ads, film, concepts and vertical cuts. Every campaign keeps one cast and one light, whatever shape the frame is, and every frame was signed off by hand. Click any of them.

Wurdy's landscape ad: a woman in a silk headscarf eats from a green tub in a dark, unmoved grandstand. Headline 'Scoop On.'
Flavor Cloud ad, square cut: a freckled woman bites into a dripping cheeseburger with the Flavor Cloud logo printed on the bun.
The Wurdy's grandstand frame cut to 9:16 for stories.
Wurdy's film: the grandstand crowd sits still while one woman eats ice cream.
Terra Nova Outdoors ad: a woman sits in the mouth of a sage-and-rust tent at dusk, a copper cooler beside her and a 4x4's headlights behind. 'Beyond the horizon.'
Square Wurdy's ad: 'It has to be Wurdy's.'
Wurdy's concept: a fairy carries a giant tub across a meadow at sunset.
Wurdy's 4:5 feed ad: 'Scoop On.'
Wurdy's meadow film.
Vertical Wurdy's ad: 'It has to be Wurdy's.'
Aston & Vance ad: a red-bearded man in a green overcoat and tweed suit sits in a carved chair in a wood-panelled study, backgammon and chess at his feet. 'Unapologetically crafted.'
HOKA film: the runner sprints down a city street as a taxi flips behind her.
HOKA, vertical cut of the street sprint.
Chronos ad: a man in a charcoal suit and sunglasses sits in a carved chair in a wood-panelled study, books stacked beside him. 'The elegance of timeless design.'
Vylon ad: a knight in full armour with lilac headphones and a gold chain lounges in a steel-framed leather armchair, in white socks and black loafers.
XForm product film: a man lifts adjustable dumbbells by a bright window.
Enduro motion study: a forest trail cut through shafts of light.
Gridiron motion study: the field seen from inside a football helmet.
SKÖG serum with an oak cap, laid on wet moss from above.
SKÖG film: the bottle standing in moss in a misty forest.
Odynis ad, 4:5 cut: a knight's steel helmet in profile wearing lilac Odynis headphones.
SKÖG film still: the label up close in forest light.
VELA lifestyle still: a woman uses a massage gun on a living-room floor.
VELA product film: a hand works the massage gun.
SKÖG film still: a golden drop of serum above an open jar.
Nordic Skyn macro study: balm and forest moss.
Thirteen brands, three rows. 16:9, 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16, stills and film, each held to one look per campaign. XForm is client work. HOKA is an unofficial concept, not affiliated with HOKA. The other eleven are brands the studio invented. See the three full cases →

How it's made

Four steps.
AI gets one.

AI is the fastest camera ever built. 6+ years of design decide where to point it, and when to say no. One campaign, start to finish:

  1. HumanBefore AI01 / 04

    Direct

    It starts as a sketch. Rough frames first, until one idea is worth a whole campaign. Nothing renders before that.

    A sketchbook page: four rough pencil thumbnails of the grandstand. The night version is circled twice, with the green tub coloured in. The daylight version is crossed out, 'daylight, too pretty'. Notes read 'tub = only colour', 'nobody reacts', 'NIGHT, crowd goes flat'.
    Wurdy's — the sketch stage, where the campaign gets decided. Daylight lost.
  2. HumanBefore AI02 / 04

    Lock

    Then the rig gets written: cast, product, set, light, grade, and the one rule the idea lives or dies by. Every frame after this is checked against it, not against memory.

    Cast: the woman in the patterned silk headscarf and cat-eye sunglasses.
    Cast
    Product: the green Wurdy's tub, wrap A.
    Product
    Set: the dark grandstand, rows of spectators who don't react.
    Set
    Light
    Night. One hard key from above.
    Grade
    Blacks crushed. Only the green survives.
    Rule
    Nobody reacts.
    Palette
    Night black, rust, tub green, scarf teal.
    Wurdy's — one woman, one tub, one grandstand, one light.
  3. AIIn the rig03 / 04

    Render

    Once the idea is locked, AI renders it inside the rig: the frame from the sketch in hours, not a six-week shoot. Every render is reviewed by hand. Most don't make the cut.

    The raw render of the grandstand frame: the woman in the headscarf eats from the green tub, untouched, ungraded, with no type.
    Wurdy's — straight from the machine. No retouch, no grade, no type.
  4. HumanAfter AI04 / 04

    Perfect

    Then 6+ years of multimedia design takes over. In Photoshop, by hand: warped type rebuilt, bent shapes and hands corrected, every frame graded, typeset and recut for each format. Nothing ships until it's perfect.

    The finished Wurdy's ad: 'Scoop On.' set left of the woman, the Wurdy's lockup to her right.
    'It has to be Wurdy's' at 16:9.
    'Scoop On.' at 1:1.
    'Scoop On.' at 4:5.
    'Scoop On.' at 9:16.
    Wurdy's — finished, typeset, cut to 16:9, 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16.
A sketchbook page: four rough pencil thumbnails of the grandstand. The night version is circled twice, with the green tub coloured in. The daylight version is crossed out, 'daylight, too pretty'. Notes read 'tub = only colour', 'nobody reacts', 'NIGHT, crowd goes flat'.
Wurdy's — the sketch stage, where the campaign gets decided. Daylight lost.
Cast: the woman in the patterned silk headscarf and cat-eye sunglasses.
Cast
Product: the green Wurdy's tub, wrap A.
Product
Set: the dark grandstand, rows of spectators who don't react.
Set
Light
Night. One hard key from above.
Grade
Blacks crushed. Only the green survives.
Rule
Nobody reacts.
Palette
Night black, rust, tub green, scarf teal.
Wurdy's — one woman, one tub, one grandstand, one light.
The raw render of the grandstand frame: the woman in the headscarf eats from the green tub, untouched, ungraded, with no type.
Wurdy's — straight from the machine. No retouch, no grade, no type.
The finished Wurdy's ad: 'Scoop On.' set left of the woman, the Wurdy's lockup to her right.
'It has to be Wurdy's' at 16:9.
'Scoop On.' at 1:1.
'Scoop On.' at 4:5.
'Scoop On.' at 9:16.
Wurdy's — finished, typeset, cut to 16:9, 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16.

Receipts

Drag it. Sketch to finish.

Left: the sketch. Right: what shipped. Human direction at the start, AI in the middle, a hand finish at the end.

The finished Wurdy's ad: the woman in the headscarf eats from the green tub in a dark grandstand, 'Scoop On.' to her left, the Wurdy's lockup to her right.
A rough pencil sketch of the same frame: the crowd as blank ovals and scribbled shadow, the woman in sunglasses at the centre, the tub circled, 'SCOOP ON.' and a boxed 'WURDY'S' lettered in.

On the page

  • The woman dead centre. The crowd is a dark wall.
  • Type planned left and right of her face from the first line.
  • The tub circled: the only colour allowed in the frame.

In the finish

  • Same woman, same seat, same tub as the sketch.
  • Graded until the green tub is the only colour left.
  • Headline set in the brand face, checked at thumbnail size.

Self-initiated concepts. Wurdy's and SKÖG are invented brands. HOKA is unofficial and not affiliated with HOKA.

Film index 07

More film.

Product films and motion studies. Click any row to watch.

Self-initiated concepts, plus client work for XForm. Not affiliated with HOKA.

Pricing

Public prices. Fixed turnaround.

No proposal deck, and no call before you see a number.

What are you planning?

Pilot

Ten frames, one rig

Price
$1,500USD, flat fee
Turnaround
5 daysbrief to first delivery

See the rig hold on your product before you commit to a full launch.

  • 10 assets
  • 2 formats
  • 1 round of revisions
  • Full commercial rights
Start with a Pilot

Campaign

The default

One launch, fully covered

Price
$4,500USD, flat fee
Turnaround
7 daysbrief to first delivery

Forty assets from one locked rig, so every placement in the launch reads as the same brand.

  • 40 assets
  • 3 formats of your choice: 16:9, 1:1, 4:5 or 9:16
  • Up to 3 short film loops among them
  • 2 rounds of revisions
  • Full commercial rights and source files
Start a Campaign

Monthly

Every launch, same rig

Price
$8,500USD per month
Turnaround
7 daysper drop

For brands that ship every month and need every month to look like the same brand.

  • 80 assets a month, in two drops
  • New products added to the rig
  • 2 rounds of revisions per drop
  • Pause between months
Go monthly

Everything the studio makes, for the record: campaign stills, product film, UGC-style cuts, motion studies, art direction.

Prices in USD. Every tier: a direct line to the creative director making the calls, and full commercial rights on final payment.

Who this isn't for

  • Budgets under $1,500. That's the floor, and it's public.
  • One lucky hero image. The job is a set that matches.
  • Media buying, PR or long-form copy. You'll get a referral to someone good.
  • Approval chains longer than the turnaround.
  • Anyone who wants the prompts instead of the pictures.
Alyosha Kim, smiling and looking off to the side, in a dark corduroy jacket against a warm amber backdrop.
Alyosha Kim — Founder, Toronto

The studio · 43.65° N, 79.38° W

Founded by Alyosha. Toronto.

6+ years in multimedia design, most of it before generative AI existed. AI in the workflow since 2024.

At Sanvorra, AI didn't replace any of that. It gave it a superpower. The tools got faster; the standard didn't move. Direction, every call and the final polish stay human, and the person who directs your campaign is the person you talk to.

6+ yrs
Multimedia design, on site and in the studio
2024
AI added to the kit, built around the craft
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Steps done by hand, on every job
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Straight answers.

How is this different from a traditional studio?

A traditional studio is built around a shoot: crews, locations, weeks of lead time. Sanvorra is built around a rig. Your campaign is directed by a human, rendered by AI inside the rig, and perfected by hand, so you get studio craft without the six-week wait.

And from a freelancer with an AI tool?

Judgment and consistency. A prompt gives you one good frame. 6+ years of multimedia design and a locked rig give you forty that look like the same brand. Cast, light, lens and grade are decided before anything renders, and every frame is signed off by hand.

Will people be able to tell it's AI?

Some will, if they go looking. What they'll notice first is that it's consistent and on brand: every asset is finished by hand and checked against the rig before it leaves the studio.

How long does it take?

First delivery lands 5 days after a confirmed Pilot brief, and 7 days after a Campaign brief: forty assets, three formats. On the monthly plan, each drop takes 7 days. Revision rounds come after first delivery. Bigger rollouts get a quote and a fixed schedule before they start.

Do I own the work?

You get full commercial rights to every asset on final payment, with no licensing fees and no ongoing dependency on the studio. Campaign and Monthly also include the layered source files.

Where are you based?

Toronto, on Eastern Time. Sanvorra works with brands across the US and Canada, fully remote: the brief by email or a short call, delivery by link.

What's out of scope?

Media buying, PR, long-form copywriting and physical manufacturing. For anything outside the work shown here, you'll get a referral to people the studio trusts.

What are you launching?

Case study

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