4. Commercial Head of Fabrication and Art Direction: Nike and Trolli
Head of Fabrication: Kibble
For this Nike ad celebrating UConn Women’s 12th National Championship Win we only had a couple days to design and make hundreds of pieces of a custom designed trophy that looked like dog kibble.
A whole meals worth of inedible dog food, designed, sculpted and cast by Mattie Bowden and painted by Gillian Hunt.
A still from the ad on TikTok featuring the kibble we made, which aired on ESPN after the team won the Nation Championship.
We’re glad they were the champions or they never would have released the ad!
A additional still from the ad on TikTok.
The reference image provided from the client.
Samples that I sculpted for client approval.
Paint samples of the approved kibble sculpt.
Art Director: Trolli
This was a hilarious set to conceive of. How do you make an animatable neon rollercoaster with a tunnel that is a monster that swallows passers-by with an department budget under $1000. See the photos below to find out.
Watch the whole clip here!
Nicole Kaufman hot gluing runners onto the track.
The mouth needed to animate open and closed and the eyes blink.
