Story · NBA Basketball School

Hoops culture, re-rendered.

A global youth-basketball campaign rebuilt from concept to film using generative pre-viz, motion synthesis and AI-directed cinematography.

NBA Basketball School
Client
AI-Directed Film
Discipline
2025
Year
Global
Region
The brief

Reach the next generation, everywhere.

The NBA Basketball School needed a youth-focused campaign that could reach an audience as global and digital-native as the players it inspires — without losing the cultural specificity that makes the brand resonate.

The approach

Roster + studio, in parallel.

A roster director led art direction and visual language, anchored by LaBooom!'s hoops-culture practice.

The studio built a generative pre-viz pipeline that let us iterate on shots, motion and lighting in hours instead of weeks.

Sora and Runway powered the moving-image work; Midjourney and ComfyUI handled key art and motion variants across markets.

The outcome

Cinematic, on tempo.

A campaign that landed with cinema-grade craft and the velocity of social — and a pipeline the team can pick up and re-use on the next moment.

Selected stills

From the work.

The AI stack used on this.

The tools, selected for the brief and orchestrated through our COLLIDE-AI pipeline.

Sora
Video
Runway
Motion
Midjourney
Key Art
ComfyUI
Pipeline
Topaz
Finish
All projects ESPN

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