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DARSProperty development · 2025 · delivered

No apartments yet. New Year's already arrived in them.

Developer DARS's New Year video: a yarn house spirit waves a pencil to decorate the apartment, ornaments fly onto the tree, a family walks in. No shoot, 15 seconds, 4K.

Made the video with ASTRA PRODUCTION: the character, scenes, animation and the 4K master.

DARS

Nothing to film. Something to show.

The final video, 15 seconds
What a developer has before handover
  • A construction site instead of an apartment
  • Static interior renders
  • A holiday these walls have never seen
What the video showed

The house spirit flicks its pencil and the apartment decorates itself: ornaments jump onto the tree, an adult and a child in winter clothes walk through the door. The future home is alive, and it has its own keeper.

No shootOne character in every shot4K, 24 fps

How to stage a holiday in a home that isn't built

01One house spirit in every shot

A generator draws the character slightly differently each time. The yarn on its head, the orange shirt and the bag with the DARS logo had to match from wide shot to close-up.

02Two passes at one scene

The first pass was a warm living room with string lights, the second bright interiors. Over twenty eight-second scenes. The best from the second pass made the cut.

03It has to read as real footage

Soft light, bokeh from the string lights, carpet pile and yarn texture. Scenes were generated at 1920 px and upscaled to a 4K master.

What's in the video

The video scene by scene
The video scene by scene
Ornaments fly onto the tree
Ornaments fly onto the tree
The character in close-up
The character in close-up
Two passes at the scenes
Two passes at the scenes
Character

A yarn house spirit with a branded DARS bag.

Pencil magic

A pencil instead of a magic wand, sparks and flying ornaments.

A family at the door

At the end, new residents walk into the apartment.

Ready for a series

Two more scripts: new apartment keys and a flight on a lettuce leaf.

Three tracks to choose from

We tried three winter music themes under the video.

15 seconds

Ad length, 4K master at 24 fps.

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