ORIGINALS_THEN & NOW

Overview

Working with The Midnight Club for Adidas and Arsenal FC, Nymbl helped bring a young Ian Wright back to screen for the Then & Now campaign, created around the reissue of Arsenal’s iconic 1990 “bruised banana” kit. We used machine-learning face replacement to place young Ian alongside his present-day self, training the model from archive photographs and video. Much of the available 1990s material was standard definition, so the process also involved extensive source research, manual cleanup and AI upscaling before training on Nymbl’s in-house GPU render farm. The result combined nostalgic archive references with a contemporary VFX workflow built around deep learning.