# Surreal office tales

> Illustrated advertising frames place a recurring office character in impossible workplace scenes involving oversized objects, repeated doors, floating symbols, and a furniture-filled wheel, ending with a bold brand card.

- Kind: Video
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/ref-optimizely-tales-of-mark-eting-giant-ant-f8c5/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/ref-optimizely-tales-of-mark-eting-giant-ant-f8c5/agent.txt
- Authorship: Not stated
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: not stated
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Illustrated; surreal, flat illustration, forced perspective, bold outlines, acid colors, visual metaphor, editorial cartoon
- Length and format: 30 sec, 16:9 (1280x720 source)
- Playback: a muted visual reference. The original soundtrack is available only at the source.
- Shared by Giant Ant in Website: https://www.giantant.ca/optimizely-mark-eting
- Prompt fidelity: Unavailable in this entry. The recreation brief is written by Reference.

## Before you start

Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions.

1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present.
2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized.
3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed.
4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting.
5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use.

## Recreating this video

This is a visual reference. No original creator prompt is available. The following brief was written by Reference after inspecting the work.

Build freestanding room fragments with skewed perspective, thin black outlines, and solid angular shadows rather than fully rendered environments. Use one exaggerated prop or repeated object system to turn each scene into a readable visual metaphor, while retaining a small recurring character for scale. Repeat a restrained teal, plum, cream, and lime palette across different background colors, with condensed captions below. For a new subject, replace the office objects, character, metaphors, and brand lettering with domain-specific equivalents.

1. Open the live work or source and inspect the frame images below.
2. Adapt its layout, hierarchy, palette, and interaction patterns to the user's own content and brand.
3. Compare the result against the reference. Use your own assets and credit the original creator.

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator.

Flat, surreal vector illustrations of a marketing office and its characters, with sparse captions and bold graphic details.

- Color: Teal, mint, pale green, and aqua backgrounds, accented by hot pink, lime green, black, and white.
- Type: Bold sans-serif lettering for the title and captions; small black sans-serif text within scenes.
- Framing: A 3-by-3 grid of distinct illustrated frames. Office scenes are centered with open space around them; several frames use solid-color backgrounds with text or a small illustration.
- Structure: The frames include a simple “Tales” title card, multiple office vignettes featuring Mark Eting, brief captions, and an “Optimizely / Mark Eting’s” end card.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-optimizely-tales-of-mark-eting-giant-ant-f8c5/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 1.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-optimizely-tales-of-mark-eting-giant-ant-f8c5/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 5.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-optimizely-tales-of-mark-eting-giant-ant-f8c5/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 8.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-optimizely-tales-of-mark-eting-giant-ant-f8c5/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 11.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-optimizely-tales-of-mark-eting-giant-ant-f8c5/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 15.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-optimizely-tales-of-mark-eting-giant-ant-f8c5/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 18.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-optimizely-tales-of-mark-eting-giant-ant-f8c5/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 21.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-optimizely-tales-of-mark-eting-giant-ant-f8c5/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 25.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-optimizely-tales-of-mark-eting-giant-ant-f8c5/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 28.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-optimizely-tales-of-mark-eting-giant-ant-f8c5/f9.webp

## Links

- Watch: https://www.giantant.ca/optimizely-mark-eting
- Original post: https://www.giantant.ca/optimizely-mark-eting
- Source and design credit: https://www.giantant.ca/optimizely-mark-eting