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Kentucky After Dark

COOMER PROJECT
Kentucky After Dark by COOMER

credits

Title
  • Kentucky After Dark
Entrant
  • COOMER

About This Project

Summary

"Utilizing Cinema 4D to ensure architectural accuracy, the team developed visuals of haunted properties, and leveraged Midjourney AI, Topaz AI, and Runway Machine Learning to create aliens, ghosts and other eerie figures, frightening worlds, and nightmarish phenomena across Kentucky. Adding hand-drawn typography, Photoshop for retouching and compositing of the C4D models and AI visuals set the tone for the spooky tourism initiative, which featured some of the most talked-about AI art in tourism.

Goals & Objectives

OBJECTIVE 1: Rural Community Growth Grow Kentucky’s economy through travel OBJECTIVE 2: Entertaining Destinations Position Kentucky’s paranormal destinations as drivable and cost-effective OBJECTIVE 3: Capture Creepy Audience Drive overnights in this unique audience"

Results & Impact

KAD generated $1,120,310.35 earned-media value, including features from Yahoo! News, Daily Mail, ADWEEK, and many others. The unique approach to tourism visuals has provided an economic boost to rural parts of Kentucky, with AI visuals that showcase the state’s history in new and unexpected ways.

the team

David Coomer
  • CEO-Head of Strategy
  • COOMER
Ana Maldonado-Coomer
  • Creative Director-Creative Director
  • COOMER
Greta Pittard-Wright
  • COO- Head of Strategic Planning
  • COOMER
Jen Stratton
  • Senior Producer
  • Producer, Project Manager
Nita Kiem
  • Junior Creative Producer-Junior Creative Producer
  • COOMER
Madeleine Stone
  • Associate Project Manager- Awards
  • COOMER
Robbie Morgan
  • Marketing Director- Client
  • Lawrenceburg Anderson County Tourism
Nikki Leonard
  • Independent Contributor-Project Manager
  • COOMER
Jason Carne
  • Independent Contributor- Branding and Design
  • COOMER
Bryan Barger
  • Independent Contributor-Visual Director (AI/3D)
  • COOMER
Justin Gammon
  • Independent Contributor- Illustrator
  • COOMER
John Herskind
  • Independent Contributor-Graphic Designer
  • COOMER
Stanley Sievers
  • Independent Contributor-Coopywriter
  • COOMER
Aspen Grender
  • Independent Contributor-Copywriter
  • COOMER
Gates Sweeney
  • Independent Contributor-Web Designer
  • COOMER
Victor Sizemore
  • Independent Contributor-Photographer
  • COOMER
Markus Cook
  • Independent Contributor-Videographer, Contributor
  • COOMER
Justin Lee
  • Independent Contributor-Editor
  • COOMER
Dick Terhune
  • Independent Contributor-Voice Talent
  • COOMER
Noelle Fabian Dragon
  • Independent Contributor-Voice Talent
  • COOMER