Projects
Skylions Studios
A media company is judged on production values within seconds, so the site had to show the work rather than describe it.
- Client
- Skylions Studios
- Field
- Media production & advertising
- Services
- UX/UI Design, Web development
- Year
- 2026
The brief
Skylions Studios is a Zimbabwe-based media company producing film, video and advertising, including Afro-futuristic science fiction. They came to us wanting a site that could carry that range without fragmenting into unrelated parts.
The bar is unusual in this sector. A brand deciding whether to commission a production company forms a judgement about production values within a few seconds of landing, and forms it from the site itself — before watching a single frame. A well-written page describing excellent work loses to a page that simply shows it.
Our approach
The work goes first and everything else defers to it. Video thumbnails run as a horizontal reel high on the page, sized to be watched rather than scanned, with a downloadable PDF portfolio for the procurement conversations that happen off the site.
Around that we kept the structure blunt. Services are four plainly-named offers — events coverage, graphic ads and branding, B2B marketing, influencer marketing — because a brand arriving with a budget wants to know in one screen whether Skylions does the thing they need.
The influencer roster is treated as its own proposition rather than an about-page footnote. It is a distinct reason to hire them, and the audience for it is not the same as the audience for a production quote, so it gets its own space and its own call to action.
What we built
A site built to carry moving image first, with the commercial routes kept short.
- Video-led portfolio carousel with a downloadable PDF portfolio
- Four-part services architecture aimed at commissioning brands
- Influencer roster presented as a standalone proposition
- Product and partner sections for distribution work
- Social routes to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and LinkedIn
- Dark art direction sized to make video the brightest thing on screen
- Responsive layouts that keep the reel watchable on mobile
Results
Skylions now has a site that demonstrates rather than asserts. The production work, the distribution arm and the influencer roster read as three sides of one company instead of three businesses sharing a domain, and a brand can get from landing to showreel without being asked to read first.