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A digital character in a blue puffer jacket and gold chain, orange glasses pushed up, stands in a sunlit forest.

Life of Confidence

Sanlam needed financial confidence to feel like a place. Worldbuild built the environment.

  • Unreal
  • Sanlam
  • Silver Loerie
  • 3× Gold Bookmark

Sanlam, 2023

A place, not a slogan.

LI:FE of Confidence was Sanlam's launch experience. Worldbuild contributed the environment art and the worldbuilding.

The production was with Black Ginger and King James Group, Accenture Song, on an Unreal lineage.

Loeries
Silver, 2023. Category: Digital, Use of Metaverse, AR and VR.
Bookmarks
Three Gold IAB Bookmarks in 2023, plus six Silver and three Bronze.
Gold categories
Influencer Marketing, Social Media Innovation, and Online Video Series.
Worldbuild
Environment art and worldbuilding. Not the whole campaign.

What it had to prove

The message had to survive being walked through.

Insurance stories usually flatten into slogans. This one asked whether a place people can move through could carry the message without turning into a slideshow.

Lighting, the props, and the pace of walking were part of the brief.

Credits

Environment art and worldbuilding
Worldbuild
With
Black Ginger
King James Group / Accenture Song
For
Sanlam

The record

The awards and the campaign page are public.

To talk to Worldbuild about the world, write to Dale.