PUMA F1 GP X LAS VEGAS SPHERE
Puma Motorsport approached Nexus Studio & Shane Griffin to create this amazing Las Vegas Grand Prix race week film. Which would be displayed externally on the exosphere.
With Shane’s direction and skillset he pushed the team to create these epic visuals. With his background in photorealism 3D he enabled the team to bring the Puma and F1 car along with the rest of the brand assets and visuals to life.
The incredible team at Nexus got to work and modelled, animated, scamped and designed a lot of the assets. Which were then brought to life by their team and support from others, under the guidance of Shane.
The sphere is an incredibly interesting and incredibly challenging medium to work with being spherical, we had to apply all the tricks we had up our sleeves to get these looking just right.
But i think you can all agree that this looks absolutely epic.
Special thanks to the team at Nexus Studios, Puma Motorsport, Dylan and to Shane.
ROLE
Lead 2D Motion Designer
Compositing LL360 / Mapping
Editing of LL360 composite
Creative motion concepts and ideation
Delivery to Sphere with QC
CREDITS
Client: Puma Motorsport
Production Company: Nexus Studios
Director: Shane Griffin
Executive Producer: Jason Fletcher-Bartholomew
Senior Producer: Joanna Marciszewska
Production Manager: Edith Chappey
Studio CG Lead: Nico Domerego
3D Team Lead (Cover): Dave Hunt
VFX Consultant: German Diez
3D Motion Designers: James Brocklebank, Liam Henderson & Nexus Studios
3D Animator: William Lorton
Storyboards and Design: Justin Harder
2D Motion Designers: Jack Rogers Studio, Simon Eves
Editors: Jack Rogers Studio, David Slade
Nuke Compositor: Valérie Guichard
AE Compositor: Jack Rogers Studio
Modellers & Riggers: Niko Rossi, Kaan Kucuk
Resource Manager: Zachary Goldman
Head of Production: Rachel Moss
Creative Development: (Pitch) Delfina Maria
Conceptual Styleframes: Claus Studios
Creative Manager (pitch): Jade Duncan-Knight
PR & Marketing: Nancy Edmondson, Bruce Bigg, Alyaa Ridha
Drone Footage: Las Vegas Sphere (We Fly)
Forever Faster.
The Puma Motorsport brand messaging is Forever Faster. They take this into every aspect of their brand. We used this and adopted it. Making sure all our visuals looked powerful and fast. The F1 car… The Burnouts.. The smoke. We needed it to all feel fast and powerful. The Puma needed to look strong and agile just like athletes need to be in order to perform at their best. This film is an embodiment of that.
