BYD Ti7 Iraq: How an AI Commercial Kept a Real Car 100% Accurate
TL;DR: A 69-second, 4K AI commercial for the BYD Ti7 in Iraq, directed by Mohamed Abdelwahed. Every frame was generated with AI, yet the car had to match BYD's official studio renders exactly — grille, lamps, wheels and paint.
What was the brief?
BYD needed a launch film for the Ti7 SUV in Iraq that could carry six product promises in about a minute: spacious storage, a big smart screen, drive modes, smart technology, safety without compromise, and colours for everyone. Each promise gets its own Arabic super, landing on its own scene.
The film had to feel local — Iraqi roads, Iraqi landscapes, Iraqi families — and it had to sell a real product that customers will walk into a showroom and compare with what they saw on screen.
What was the idea?
Sixty-nine seconds, six promises, one country. The film opens on Iraq lit from space at night, dives down into the platform before the car is ever seen, and then travels: a Baghdad bridge, the mountain roads of Kurdistan, the orange orchards of Diyala, the desert. Each place carries one promise, and the closing run cycles the Ti7 through its official paint colours on a mountain road before the title lands.
How was the BYD Ti7 film made with AI?
Mohamed Abdelwahed, AI video director, built the film as a pipeline rather than a prompt:
• Reference first. BYD's own 45° studio renders of the Ti7 and the client's ten interior renders were the reference every AI frame had to match. Nothing about the car was left to the model's imagination.
• Plate, then car. Each location was generated empty first — a Baghdad bridge, a Kurdistan mountain road, a Diyala orchard — and only then was the Ti7 placed into it, so light and perspective came from the place, not from a generic "car ad" look.
• Locked phrasing for consistency. One locked description kept the car identical while the ground changed under it, giving the "drive modes" beat eight different terrains with the same exact vehicle.
• Prompt chains, not single prompts. The desert family picnic was re-asked five times to pull the camera back until a rock framed the family. The storage shot went roof closed → boot loaded with camping gear → four sky swaps. The smart-screen shot removed a hand, swapped the display four times, then put the touch back for the film.
• Safety in three layers. The safety beat was built as structure (X-ray), protective shell, then airbag deployment — all on the exact Ti7 body.
Tools: Nano Banana 2 for stills, Seedance 2 and Higgsfield for video, After Effects for compositing and finishing.
Real numbers from the project folder: a 69-second film mastered at 3840×2160, 24 fps; 84 video files; 247 stills; 63 Higgsfield runs; 6 official colours. The interior cabin set was delivered in two rounds, re-lit and re-dressed between them.
What was the hardest part of the BYD Ti7 AI commercial?
Keeping the car honest. Generative video loves to "improve" a product — a slightly different grille, softer headlamps, wheels from another model. For a car brand that is not acceptable. Every generated frame was checked against the official renders, and any frame that drifted was regenerated rather than retouched.
The second challenge was light. Paint and glass only read correctly when the sun sits in the right place, so the same composition was re-asked with a new sun angle until the bodywork looked right.
The third was locality. Iraq had to look like Iraq — not a stock Middle East. Building each location as an empty plate first made that possible.
What was the result?
A finished 69-second 4K film, plus a 30-second vertical cut for social, delivered to BYD for the Iraqi market. The case study, with the prompt chains and raw generations, is on Behance and on abdelwahed.art.
Credits
• Client: BYD (Iraq)
• Direction, AI generation & edit: Mohamed Abdelwahed
• Stills: Nano Banana 2
• Video: Seedance 2 · Higgsfield
• Compositing: After Effects
• Year: 2026
FAQ
Can AI video show a real car accurately? Yes, if the official renders are used as references for every frame and anything that drifts is regenerated. Accuracy is a process, not a model setting.
Who directed the BYD Ti7 Iraq AI commercial? Mohamed Abdelwahed, an Egypt-based AI video director and senior art director.
How long did the BYD Ti7 film take to make? The raw Higgsfield generations in the folder are dated from June 29 to July 2.
ملخص بالعربي
إعلان BYD Ti7 للعراق: فيلم مدته ٦٩ ثانية بدقة 4K، كل لقطاته معمولة بالذكاء الاصطناعي، من إخراج محمد عبد الواحد. الفيلم بيقول ٦ وعود: المساحة، الشاشة الذكية، أوضاع القيادة، التكنولوجيا، الأمان، والألوان، في أماكن عراقية حقيقية زي بغداد وكردستان وديالى. أهم تحدي كان إن العربية تفضل مطابقة ١٠٠٪ لصور BYD الرسمية في كل لقطة.
Mohamed Abdelwahed — AI Video Director & Senior Art Director · one@abdelwahed.art