Why Donate
Donation Meter

Features
	Last Airbender
	Grey's Anatomy Promo VFX
	Interview with Bobby Chiu
	License to dream
	Focus : Gears Of War 3

News Headlines
	Dragon Age 2
	Bioshock Infinite
	Time travellers Comic
	Envirometer
	Thelma and Louise Remake

Other Features
	Interview With Nick Harris
	Making Art for Ipad
	Making VFX for Ben Hur Remake
	Interview : Mike winkelmann
	Baby Data

↑ Grab this Headline Animator

The "Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix" took place on 28th September 2008 on a street circuit of public roads in Singapore.

Red Bull commissioned "Peter Clausen Film & TV" (Munich) to create a film clip showing the track, giving all the relevant circuit information and a preview of the first night race ever to be held in "Formula 1" history and the first street race in Asia. The basic idea was to let F1 pilots Sebastian Vettel (Scuderia Toro Rosso) and Mark Webber (Red Bull Racing) deliver an action-packed neck-and-neck race on the new city circuit.

"Peter Clausen Film & TV" decided on "AixSponza Animation and VFX" in Munich as cooperation partner to produce the piece completely in 3D.



Since the construction of the circuit still wasn't finished, shooting on film was not an option. Above all, making a computer generated film made it possible to use new and unseen camera angles and to create a distinct and remarkable visual style. The concept evolved to show a photoreal racer driving through a stylized environment. This way the film transports the message without loosing the race feeling, vital to the formula one. AixSponza developed a stylized metal world that is recognizable and abstract at the same time.

After a period for layout, the whole project had to be finished within two months. A team of nine 3D and composite artists worked full time on the project. The entire project was realized on Apple eightcore Xeon workstations using Cinema 4D, Vray, After Effects and Nuke.

"To create about 2.5 minutes of completely computer generated film in full HD resolution within two months posed a bit of a challenge to us. Especially the need for photorealistic imagery of the car and the huge amount of blurry reflections in the metal world were demanding", says Manuel Casasola Merkle, creative and managing director of AixSponza. "We had to think carefully about our software tools. Our decision to use Cinema4D and Vray was exactly right."