Oura Ring
Buck was asked by Oura Ring to work on a few short animations and live action spots to announce the new Ceramic Oura Ring colors. I worked on this project as an animator, designer, and compositor on the CG deliverables. It was very important to match each ring very closely to their real-world versions while taking just enough artistic liberty that the rings appeared beautiful in 3D. To add to the mystery and intrigue of the films, we animated the rings revealing themselves through fog and came up with a fun compositing trick inside of Nuke using the World Position and Object Position passes to achieve it. This saved us render times and allowed us to iterate fast to keep up with client and internal feedback. I had so much fun working on this one!
Project Details: Create 8 looping animations of the CG rings, a live action spot to be edited to multiple lengths, and key visual designs for posters/advertising
Animated in Cinema 4D, Designed in Cinema 4D, Rendered in Redshift, Composited in Nuke & AE
Stills
We created 3 main camera angle stills for each ring color with cropping in mind. The ring colors were very important to the client so we focused first on designing these stills before we would bring textures and lighting into animation.