Hill & Olive, Manama
A creative studio run like a film set. One director, seven studios and the patience for take 28.
Action plays with sound.
Seven studios
Every studio gets the same olive and something slightly different to do with it. Scroll through the takes.
Scene 01, Design
Identities, campaigns, annual reports and everything that gets printed. We sweat the degree nobody else notices.
Scene 02, Film
Brand films, commercials and social cuts, written, shot and edited by people who know when to call cut.
Scene 03, VFX
Compositing, clean up and motion graphics: the invisible fixes that make a hard shot look easy.
Scene 04, 3D
Product visuals, stand and space visualisation, and 3D that serves the idea instead of showing off.
Scene 05, Apps
Mobile apps from first sketch to the App Store and Google Play, designed and built to be opened every day.
Scene 06, Web
Websites that load fast, read clearly and still surprise you. This one included.
Scene 07, Architecture
Exhibition stands, interiors and spaces you can walk into. Drawn to the millimetre, built to be photographed.
The name
A hill is ambition: big, patient and visible from far away. An olive is detail: small, slow to grow and worth the wait.
Every project needs both, so the studio is named after both. Our olive leans exactly 28°, because a perfect upright ellipse is what everyone else would draw. Try it yourself.
Drag to rotate the olive
The director
Deepak Ajith founded Hill & Olive and directs every production.
Seventeen years across film, VFX, 3D, apps, websites, campaigns and exhibition stands, mostly behind the scenes and under other people's names. This studio is the front of house.
Anyone can generate a thousand options now. Choosing the right one, and making it real on a screen and in a room, is the job. That is what a director does, and why we run the studio like a set: one point of view, seven crafts, nothing lost between them.
A call, your brief, and the one question that changes it.
The idea written and drawn up front, so you see the film before anything is made.
The studios make it: design, film, code or concrete, under one director.
We cut, fix and polish until it is take 28.
Launch, handover, and every file you need to keep going without us.
Work
Client work, our own products, and projects our director led as creative director at Evoke Advertising.
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Projects credited At Evoke were made by our founder as creative director at Evoke Advertising and are shown with their permission.
Your production
Send what you are making, when you need it and a budget range. We come back with a treatment.
deepak@hillandolive.com