fabric animation project London Essex
New Balance
Pride
fabric animation project London Essex
Overview
McFaul+Day approached us to create this fabric animation project showcasing the collaboration of New Balance and Hong Kong artist Zoie Lam, in celebration of pride month. The playful illustrations created by Zoie Lam were used across a number of different garments and trainers as limited editions. Our task was to create a 20 second looping animation of the printed fabric that would be played on screens across New Balance stores. The animation would be shown on various size screens in different stores.
fabric animation project London Essex
Process
McFaul+Day specified that the printed fabric was to appear as if it were billowing in a gentle breeze, creating a beautiful abstract animation. The intention was to cut between close-up shots of the fabric, whilst also changing the intensity of ‘the breeze’: The combination of which was to produce a mesmerising/hypnotic effect of the rippling new print.
ultra studio
First we recreated the cloth in Cinema 4D, using the illustration of the print provided. Paying close attention to detail to make the cloth weave within the model match the actual fabric texture as closely as possible. We used X-Particles to build a cloth simulation and then used displacement to add micro ripples for additional detail.
ultra studio
Delivery
This animation was created in two parts so we could create a cut point to continue the looping animation forever. When delivering the animation we made sure it worked in square, landscape and portrait formats for maximum compatibility, wherever the animation needed to be used.
fabric animation project London Essex
Thank You
Client: New Balance
Agency: McFaul and Day
Animation: Ultra Studio
Output: Social
Social Media Animation
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