Work / Sundarban Honey
Case study

Pure, by the spoonful.

A forest co-operative's raw honey, given a brand and a 3D film that could stand next to the national players — on a fraction of the budget.

Client
Sundarban Honey Co-op
Category
FMCG · Food
Role
Strategy · Identity · 3D Film
Year
2024
[ hero — 3D key visual: jar, comb, light ]
Challenge

A genuinely better product, invisible on the shelf.

The co-operative's honey was raw, single-origin and unprocessed — but the jar said none of that. Next to glossy national brands it read as a homemade gift, not a premium buy. No budget for a film shoot, no studio, no celebrity.

Approach

Sell the origin, not the jar.

The honey's whole story was the forest. So we built the brand around provenance — a single line, “Pure, by the spoonful,” and a mark drawn from a honeycomb cell and a mangrove leaf.

With no shoot possible, the hero film was built entirely in 3D — every drip, comb and dust-mote rendered, so the craft on screen matched the craft in the jar.

[ logo + identity system ]
[ jar render — front ]
[ 3D film — drip frame ]
[ shelf / OOH mock-up ]
People assumed we'd spent on a film unit. We'd spent on Nabina. The jar finally looks like what's inside it.
Secretary · Sundarban Honey Co-operative
Outcome

A co-op brand that holds the shelf next to the nationals.

3 SKUs
into modern trade within the first quarter
100% 3D
hero film — zero shoot cost, full creative control

Craft note: the comb texture was modelled cell by cell rather than mapped, so it holds up in close-up — the detail that made buyers believe it was shot.

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