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2023 ADC Awards - Artificial Intelligence

Help Changes Everything

Agency Paul + GoFundMe + AKQA / San Francisco + ArtClass

Client GoFundMe

Category

AI / Execution

Annual ID

ADC102_ART010M

About the Work

‘Help Changes Everything’ is a street-mural-inspired film, illustrating the positive impact that GoFundMe donors have on the world around them. To represent the diverse communities across America, the campaign’s visuals give a universal sense of purpose and belonging, depicting donors and recipients as heroes in ever-evolving streetscapes, where history seems to be unfolding in real-time. But alongside the beautiful spirit of generosity in the storytelling is something equally compelling; a groundbreaking step forward in artificial intelligence based animation.

As outlined in GoFundMe’s Year in Help report, in 2022, a donation was made on GoFundMe every single second. To celebrate this, the brand worked with design and innovation agency, AKQA, to create a visual narrative that would show how kindness has the power to help people, and bring real change at the community level.

The team worked with a pioneering LA-based director, Paul Trillo of ArtClass, to generate the campaign’s visuals using a combination of cutting-edge technologies, which helped the audience imagine the impact they’re having on real communities.

The groundbreaking film production included using a combination of DALL-E for composite layers of visual assets, and Stable Diffusion’s Image-2-Image for frame regeneration of a hand painted aesthetic. It is a bold first from a major brand to take a leap of faith and base their large-scale, paid marketing project on A.I-generative art.

This brave and innovative approach is testament to GoFundMe’s role in pushing the world forward throughout the year, with its community helping to provide essentials during record-high inflation, advance educational dreams, and uplift people whose lives were affected by natural disasters, war and loss. In 2022 alone, 28 million people from across the world started a fundraiser or made a donation on GoFundMe.

2023 Awards

Total Points: 3

Merit Honor

Credits

Agency

Akqa

Client / Brand

GoFundMe

Production Company

ArtClass

Publisher

Bmg
Resevoir Media

Chief Marketing Officer

Musa Tariq

Creative Director

Emlyn Allen

Editor

James Boger

Executive Creative Director

Chris Eckardt
Tim McDonnell

Executive Producer

Heather Harlow

Artist

Paul Trillo

Producer

Julie Sullivan

Associate Art Director

Carol Benito

Executive Creative Director / Partner

Jean Scofield

Executive Creative Director / Partner / Arranger

Stephan Altman

Senior Art Director

Hunter Patrick

Senior Producer

Andrew Johnston

Senior Strategist

Lauren Buniva

Sound Designer / Mixer

Casey Chester

2D / 3D Animator & Compositor

Amit Chachek
Gil Gavish

2D / GFX

Eric Van Buskirk

Associate Producer

Christina Mihaljevic

Creative Producer / Partner

Kristoffer Roggemann

Flame Artist

David Hannah
Eric Pascua

Head of Post Production

Brian Keegan

Machine Learning Engineer / AI Animation

John Steinmeyer

Managing Director

Corwin Carroll

Managing Director, EP

Rebecca Niles

Managing Partner

Geno Imbriale

Post Coordinator

Rylee Axner

Project Manager

Alex Clewell

Senior Client Director

Jon Phillips

Senior Director, Brand & Media

Alex Anderson

Song writer

David Mallett

Technical Director

An Doan

Vocalist

Stella Webb

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