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Fashion

2026

Global campaign assets generated in 24 hours.

Global campaign assets generated in 24 hours.

Adidas: scaling lookbook imagery

Adidas: scaling lookbook imagery

24h

Delivery time

95%

Production cost savings

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The Challenge

Need for rapid creation of global campaign assets across multiple channels without organizing expensive physical shoots.

The Solution

Build a custom content system that works before a single product photo exists, using only CAD and production files as input.

Most content pipelines assume product photography as a starting point. This client didn't have that yet. The products were still in production, and only CAD and production files existed at the time. Waiting for physical samples and a full photo shoot would have meant losing weeks of lead time before any lookbook content could exist at all.

Full Story

The challenge was immense: launch a global campaign with thousands of product variations across multiple regions, all while maintaining strict brand consistency and data security. Traditional photography was too slow and expensive. Generic AI tools couldn't handle the specific product details or the security requirements.


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The process:

  1. Input. CAD and production files are fed directly into the pipeline. No physical product, no photography, no sample unit required.

  2. Model training. Two custom AI models were trained specifically on this data, learning the product's exact geometry, materials, and finishes from technical files rather than photographs.

  3. Generation. The models generate mood and lifestyle imagery, placing the not-yet-photographed product into real-world settings and lighting, built for internal lookbook use ahead of the actual pre-shooting.

  4. Output. 70 mood lifestyle images delivered from CAD data alone, giving the internal team a working lookbook before a single physical unit was ever shot.



Integration of Clo3D files

Automation of colorways

Completely local and data-secure

Integration of Clo3D files

Automation of colorways

Completely local and data-secure

Integration of Clo3D files

Automation of colorways

Completely local and data-secure


The result: internal teams get lookbook-quality visual reference before pre-shooting happens at all, closing the gap between "the product exists on paper" and "the product exists in a photo."

Why it matters: this flips the usual order of content production. Normally photography comes first and everything else follows from it. Here, the visual system exists before the product does, which matters most for any brand working with long lead times between design and manufacturing.

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