Chris Harris Free Concept

Chris Harris.

Freelance creative for

15+ years of digital design, illustration, animation, and video craft. I direct commercials and trailers, design brand identities and album covers, render 3D worlds, compose music, and write. Solo. AI-accelerated. Directed by taste.

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Launches / Commercials / Trailers / Animation / Worldbuilding
Video & Motion

Six lanes of motion craft.

Where I direct film. Six categories covering launch systems, brand storytelling, entertainment IP, animation, long-form, and archive restoration. Click any card to see the portfolio inside.

A

Launch & Commercial

The moment a product goes public. Built to move markets on day one.

  • Launch adverts
  • Product demos & SaaS demos
  • Commercials & TV spots
  • Performance creative
  • Direct-response video ads
  • Social ad creative
  • UGC-style & creator-style ads
  • Product launch films
  • Teaser campaigns
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B

Brand & Product Storytelling

Stories worth telling twice. Films that reposition companies and elevate perception.

  • Company & corporate brand films
  • Founder story videos
  • Kickstarter & crowdfunding videos
  • Pitch videos
  • Brand storytelling films
  • Explainer videos
  • App demo videos
  • Event & presentation visuals
  • Promo & campaign videos
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C

Trailers & Entertainment

Where curiosity is manufactured. The cinematic assets that make audiences lean forward.

  • Film trailers
  • Book trailers
  • Game trailers
  • TV & streaming teasers
  • Episodic & season trailers
  • Cinematic story trailers
  • Title & opening sequences
  • Proof-of-concept shorts
  • Concept & teaser films
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D

Animation & Visual Development

The universe before the shot. Character, world, and style pinned before production begins.

  • Motion design & motion graphics
  • Stylised & cartoon animation
  • Animated explainers & trailers
  • Character design
  • Environment & concept art direction
  • Visual world design
  • Storyboard visual development
  • AI-assisted art direction
  • Cinematic concept visuals
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E

Long-form & Studio Development

Bigger worlds. For founders, publishers, and IP holders building beyond a single film.

  • Branded short films
  • Animated shorts
  • Pilots & web episodes
  • Episodic content
  • Episode trailers
  • Proof-of-concept films
  • Creative development for series
  • Visual development for film, book, game IP
  • Worldbuilding visuals
  • Franchise & universe direction
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F

Restoration & Reanimation

Bringing archives back to life. Old material, restored, coloured, and reanimated into cinematic new form.

  • Old photo restoration & enhancement
  • Document & archive restoration
  • Damage repair, denoise & upscale
  • Black-and-white to colour conversion
  • Vintage footage remaster to 4K
  • Still-to-motion animation
  • Archival stills into cinematic film
  • Family & heritage film restoration
  • Historical & documentary reanimation
  • AI-assisted colour grading & regrade
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Design & Art

The rest of the creative universe.

Beyond film — brand identity, illustration, album covers, book covers, posters, pitch decks, web design, and 3D worlds. Fifteen years of digital design under one director.

01

Brand identity & logo

Logos, systems, marks, and visual identities. A brand that reads as a single continuous thought across every surface.

Logo · Wordmark · System · Guidelines
02

Illustration

Digital and traditional — line, painterly, character, concept. Trained artist, ten-plus years of commissioned work.

Digital · Traditional · Line · Character
03

Album cover design

Best-known for this. Cover art for musicians and labels — from painted portraits to abstract mood pieces. Musician myself, so I speak the language.

Vinyl · Digital · Streaming · Physical
04

Book covers & print

Book covers, posters, magazine spreads, editorial layouts. Published author myself — I design as a reader first.

Book covers · Posters · Editorial · Print
05

Pitch decks & presentations

Investor decks, sales decks, keynote visuals. Story-led — I write and design them as a single object.

Investor · Sales · Keynote · Story
06

Website & UI/UX

Figma-first product and marketing sites. This site is one of them — direction, layout, code, motion, all mine.

Figma · Marketing · Product · Motion
07

3D render & environment

Architectural visualisation, product renders, cinematic environments. Lumion, Twinmotion, Unreal — the tools plus the eye.

Lumion · Twinmotion · Unreal · Cinematic
08

Apparel & tattoo design

T-shirt graphics, uniforms, streetwear prints, and one-off tattoo designs. Line, character, texture — anywhere art meets the body.

T-shirt · Streetwear · Tattoo · Merch
Also

Music & scores

Three self-produced albums. Original scores for film, ads, and product launches. Composer, engineer, mixed and mastered in-house.

Writing

Published author. Long-form fiction, brand copy, scripts, and director's statements. Story is the discipline underneath every other one.

Photography & retouch

Location and portrait work, product photography, and heritage photo restoration. Fifteen years behind the camera and inside Photoshop.

About

One director.
One creative universe.

Chris Harris

I'm Chris Harris — a freelance creative with fifteen-plus years of digital design, illustration, animation, and video under my belt.

I trained as an artist first — traditional media, life drawing, painting — before moving into digital. The through-line is the same: taste, composition, story. What I bring to a launch film is the same eye I bring to a book cover, a logo, or an album sleeve.

I'm also a musician — three self-produced albums, recorded and mixed at home, and composer for film scores and music videos. And a published author. And a traveller, curious about nature, open to whatever's next.

Which means when I take on a brief — video, brand, illustration, deck, world — you get one accountable line to the work: mine. No agency layers. No handoffs. Just craft.

15+Years of practice
3Albums released
1Published book
∞Disciplines, one voice
Why work with me

Six reasons the work lands.

01

A cinematic look, by default

Every frame is directed, composed, and graded by me. Nothing looks like a template — because nothing is one.

CRAFT
02

Strategy-led creative

Before I roll a single frame, I lock the angle, the audience, the offer, and the ask. Craft without strategy is decoration.

STRATEGY
03

AI-accelerated production

I use generative tools where they compress time — pre-viz, iteration, motion, mattes — never where they compromise taste.

SPEED
04

Built for hero moments

I'm not a content mill. I build the piece that anchors a launch, opens a season, teases a world, or reframes a brand — the one asset the rest of a campaign is built around.

FOCUS
05

Premium without the overhead

No agency tax. One director, one creative universe, one accountable line to the work — me.

MODEL
06

Directed by a human

AI accelerates the middle. Taste, restraint, and story stay with me. That's the whole point.

DIRECTION
04 Method / Process
How it works

Six moves, one hero piece.

  1. STEP01

    Brief

    Day 1
    You submit the free concept form. I study the brand, the product, the audience, the competitive lane, and the launch stakes. Before I sketch, I understand.
  2. STEP02

    Concept

    Day 2
    I return a directed concept — angle, tone, structure, key frames, and a written director's statement. This is the artefact you receive for free.
  3. STEP03

    Build

    Day 3
    Production. Motion, footage, generative frames, macro, VO scratch, edit, sound design. The hero film takes shape as one continuous creative universe.
  4. STEP04

    Refine

    Day 5
    Two rounds of directed revisions, colour grade, final sound mix, mastering, delivery formats for paid, organic, web, and press.
  5. STEP05

    Ship

    Day 7
    Ship day. Hero film, cutdowns, poster stills, and paid variants — coordinated across every surface. What you paid for is what shows up.
  6. OPT.06

    Refresh

    Ongoing
    Optional ongoing collaboration: new angles, new cutdowns, seasonal campaigns, iterations on winning creative. Book me for one project or come back for the next.
$0 The free concept · yours to keep, either way
The invitation

Send the brief.
Receive a directed concept —
on the house.

Tell me about the product, the launch, and the audience. Within seven days, I'll return a real directed concept — angle, tone, structure, key frames, and a written director's statement. Not a template. Not a sales deck. A concept I would ship.

Tell us what you need

Free Concept
Package.

The brief I'll give you a Script & Storyboard Concept
Attachments — optional
    Brief received.
    Your directed concept lands within seven days. We treat every brief as confidential.
    You'll receive one directed concept within seven days. Every brief is confidential.
    08 Questions / Answers
    Frequently asked

    Things worth
    answering plainly.

    Q · 01 What kinds of videos do you make?
    Everything from launch adverts and product demos to trailers, animation, worldbuilding, and archive restoration. I specialise in cinematic short-form — the piece that anchors a launch, a campaign, an IP, or a story.
    Q · 02 Who is this for?
    Founders, brands, publishers, and storytellers with ambition — from premium D2C and Kickstarter creators to SaaS teams, indie filmmakers, book publishers, and game studios.
    Q · 03 What do I get in the free custom concept?
    A directed concept for your launch film: angle, tone, structure, 3–5 cinematic reference frames, and a written director's statement. Returned within seven days. Yours to keep, whether or not you hire me.
    Q · 04 Do I need existing footage?
    No. I regularly build films entirely from generative and motion craft, macro pickups, and licensed material. If you have existing footage, product shots, or brand assets, I'll integrate them — but nothing is required.
    Q · 05 Can you help with messaging and creative direction?
    Yes — that's the point. Strategy and direction come before craft. I'll help you find the angle, the language, and the story that make the launch land. It's how every project starts.
    Q · 06 How is AI involved?
    I use generative tools where they compress time — pre-visualization, iteration, motion, mattes, plates — never as a replacement for taste. I direct every frame. Speed comes from process; craft comes from judgment.
    09 Testimonials
    What clients say

    Directed like a film.
    Delivered like a launch.

    Founders, publishers, and product teams on what it's like to work with Chris.

    ★★★★★
    "Chris understood the launch before we did. What came back wasn't a pitch — it was a concept we shipped almost word-for-word. Our best-performing paid ad ever."
    Maya Reyes
    Founder · OBELISK Kitchenware
    ★★★★★
    "Chris's free concept was worth what most studios charge for a full deck. Then the hero film outran our own launch page's conversion rate by 3.4×."
    Daniel Lang
    CMO · Northgate Optics
    ★★★★★
    "I came to Chris with a rough Kickstarter idea. He gave it a universe. Funded in 48 hours — 612% of goal by close."
    Aïcha Sørensen
    Creator · Halcyon Press
    ★★★★★
    "Four weeks, one director, zero back-and-forth. Chris delivered a launch that looked like it came out of a studio ten times our size."
    Tom Okonkwo
    Co-founder · Loomstate SaaS
    ★★★★★
    "Every reference I sent, Chris beat. The trailer felt like it belonged in a cinema, not a launch email — and the audience noticed."
    Clara Vance
    Author · The Ninth House IP
    ★★★★★
    "Taste, restraint, judgment. Rare combination in a market full of template merchants. Chris is now our default director for every hero asset."
    Close

    A first impression is a
    one-shot moment.
    Make it unforgettable.

    Send me the brief. In seven days, I'll return a directed concept for your film — free. If it's right, we build it. If it isn't, the concept is yours to keep.

    Submit your brief