01 · Autoreset: Student Crew

01 · Autoreset: Student Crew

*Currently being revisited and redeveloped.
*Currently being revisited and redeveloped.

Metadata

Client

Year

2026

Autoreset’s Student Crew recruits students as hikers, the people who drive rental cars back to where they started.

Autoreset’s Student Crew recruits students as hikers, the people who drive rental cars back to where they started.

Standfirst

Autoreset’s Student Crew recruits students as hikers, the people who drive rental cars back to where they started.

Role

Campaign concept, copy, ad creation, AI video production and animation. Art direction developed with my creative lead.

Made at

Small Giants

Scope

Campaign concept

Copy

Art direction

Motion

Generative video

Duration

4 weeks

Background

The job is flexible, easy and pays well, and almost nobody has heard of it. It sits against horeca, delivery and flyering, and has to beat them with an audience that scrolls fast and skips faster. The brief was to make signing up feel obvious, on TikTok and Instagram, inside a second or two.

Approach

Selling the function was never going to move this audience, so the campaign sells the feeling. Being a hiker means moving through the country on your own terms, driving new cars, setting your own hours and getting paid for something that does not feel like work. Freedom, motion and easy money became the idea, carried by fashionable young adults, sleek cars and open roads, and pushed well past anything Autoreset had made before. It runs across three funnel phases. See is built for attention, with short animated ads on lines like “Waarom zwoegen in de horeca”. Think introduces comparison, putting the job beside the alternatives and the viewer behind the wheel. Do converts, with benefit-led copy and clear routes to signing up. Video at this volume was not affordable conventionally, so I built the production in Weavy. Each shot starts as a directed prompt specifying lighting, lens and framing, those images become the start and end frames of a generated clip, and the pipeline compiles the results with the brand assets in place.

Outcome

The campaign is yet to launch. The client responded enthusiastically to the work and the visual language pushed well beyond what Autoreset had produced before. A scalable campaign system ready to go the moment it hits the platforms.