Shapeshifter Creative Ltd  ·  Est. 2011  ·  Job no. 0422 and counting

Anyone can
generate it.
Making it land
is the job.

Twenty years of motion design. Twelve years directing corporate film. Four hundred productions for the brands below. Now pointed squarely at the thing almost everyone is getting wrong about AI video.


400+

Productions delivered

20

Years in motion design

12

Years directing corporate film

8

Days to deliver an AI film


0422 Most recent · 2026

0422_SevernTrent

Turn Up To Eleven

AI conference opener

Full film on request

Severn Trent

A full AI film delivered in eight days for an internal comms conference. Briefed as a stock-footage assembly. Delivered as something the client did not know was available to them.

Format
AI conference opener
Delivered in
8 days
Pre-AI equivalent
Not producible
01 The method

The Ten-Point AI Content Check

Ten failure modes that make AI video read as cheap. Every one is observable, gradeable — and none of them can be spotted by the team that generated the content, because spotting them is what the twenty years were for.

  1. 01

    3D spatial continuity

    Geography breaks between shots. The room quietly reassembles itself and the viewer stops believing the space.

  2. 02

    Actor performance

    Faces that emote at nothing. Gesture without intent. The uncanny stillness behind the eyes.

  3. 03

    Scene continuity

    Props, wardrobe, weather and time of day drifting shot to shot.

  4. 04

    Voice-over consistency

    Tone, pace and mic character shifting mid-film, so the narrator becomes several people.

  5. 05

    Character consistency

    The same person, subtly different every time they appear. Audiences clock it instantly.

  6. 06

    Colour grade consistency

    Every shot looking like it came from a different film — the single fastest tell of AI assembly.

  7. 07

    Story structure

    No spine. A sequence of impressive images that never becomes an argument, so nothing lands.

  8. 08

    Joins in long shots

    Visible seams where generations were stitched to reach the required duration.

  9. 09

    Iteration control

    Fixing one detail destroys everything that was already working. The most expensive failure on this list.

  10. 10

    Motion graphics control

    Type and motion that cannot hit brand specification, a beat, or an accessible contrast ratio.

See audit packages — from £450

02 Content created for

Professional services

  • PwC
  • Deloitte
  • Accenture
  • CGI
  • Infosys
  • Grant Thornton

Technology & telecoms

  • Cisco
  • Vodafone
  • BT
  • Openreach
  • Softcat
  • Toshiba
  • Ricoh
  • Epson
  • Panasonic
  • Xbox
  • Amdocs

Financial services

  • HSBC
  • AXA
  • Barclaycard
  • Schroders
  • Prudential
  • BNY Mellon
  • FTSE Russell
  • Old Mutual
  • Quilter
  • Allianz
  • State Street
  • Direct Line

Utilities & energy

  • Severn Trent
  • Scottish Water
  • ExxonMobil
  • BP
  • Castrol
  • EDF
  • British Gas

Healthcare & pharma

  • Stryker
  • AbbVie
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Bupa
  • Norgine

Consumer & retail

  • McDonald's
  • Domino's
  • Kellogg's
  • Mondelez
  • Danone
  • Campari
  • Estée Lauder
  • New Balance
  • Adidas
  • Levi’s
  • BMW
  • Audi
  • Subaru
  • Specsavers
  • Virgin Active
  • The Body Shop
  • Pets at Home
  • FedEx
  • DHL
  • Royal Mail
  • TUI

Media & institutions

  • CNN
  • CNBC
  • Thomson Reuters
  • BuzzFeed
  • United Nations
  • Formula 1
  • Goodwood
  • Weber Shandwick
  • VCCP

03 Selected work
All work

04 Disciplines

Craft

The twenty-year foundation

  • Full video production
  • Direction
  • Video editing
  • VFX
  • 3D animation
  • Motion graphics
  • Colour grading
  • Graphic design
  • Illustration

AI-native

What that foundation now unlocks

  • AI film production
  • AI content audit
  • Content rescue & rebuild
  • AI content standards
  • Concept & previsualisation

Digital

Built and managed in-house

  • Web design
  • Managed websites
  • Brand identity
  • Presentation & event graphics

Craft first.
AI second.
Never the other way round.

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