Maximus Strategic
Investor marketing for early and growth-stage companies, rebuilt in marble — the brief in one line: if the old design was paper, they wanted marble.
A monochrome world of stone, bronze and brass for a firm that tells companies' stories to investors: a site that scrolls like a film, a thirty-second film at its heart, and a marble statue for every letter it publishes.
Details
Client: Maximus Strategic
Medium: Film
Models: Seedance 2.5, GPT Image 2, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
Date: Sep 29, 2026
Making
Step 01: One Seedance 2.5 take, 30 seconds
Step 02: A cover concept for every letter
Step 03: Covers on GPT Image 2
Step 04: Scenes on GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
One take, thirty seconds
The film is a single Seedance 2.5 take: one constant-pace glide from the bronze doors, past the pedestals and the busts, through the library bay and past the mossy window, to the garden door.
A statue for every letter
Each of the firm's letters got its own cover concept, acted out by a marble statue — a craftsman kneeling over an unrolled plan, brass compass and set square in his hands, on a plinth in a vast unfinished hall of columns.
Four shelves, one world
The letters sit on four shelves — capital, markets, audience and founders — each cover a different statue and a different idea in the same stone.
Halls and deities
The chapter pictures — wide halls, a library, gardens, and portraits of the deities behind each idea — were generated in the same style rather than cut from the film: 2560 wide for the heroes and bands, 1536 × 1920 for the portraits.
What the model refused
One brief — two marble statues guarding a threshold — was refused by the image model's safety system as sexual. It was rewritten with urns, busts and drapery.
