Red Bull Transforming Formula One

Red Bull Transforming Formula One

We're back on track with Formula1. Heck Yeah!

We created another animation for Formula1. Introducing Vettels new colleague Daniel Ricciardo we take a closer look at the inner workings of the race car. Animating our way through all the rule changes of the 2014 season the whole thing is converted from last years RB9 to the state of the art RB10 racing car.

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As the storyboard called for closeup shots of Vettel and Ricciardo in their racing helmets we created 3d photoscans of both pilots. Additionally three cameras were used to capture animated textures of their faces. The stabilized footage was mapped onto retopo geometry of the scan which gaves us realtime animated faces in the 3d viewport. For various shots fluid effects like smoke and fire were needed. These were simulated and rendered using TurbulenceFD for Cinema4d. What proved to be quite difficult to handle was the massive amount of geometry we had to put in the glas cars. Approximately half of the car parts were delivered as CAD models, the other half was modelled by ourselves. Polycount came clocking in with a huge number, calling for a severe update of computer memory.

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Credits

Peter Clausen Film & TV Produktions GmbH in partnership with Red Bull Media House, Andreas Gall
Voice-Over: Sebastian Vettel & Daniel Ricciardo
Director & Producer: Peter Clausen
Line Producer: Cecilia Trück
VFX Director / Editing: Christian Tyroller
VFX Supervisor / CD: Manuel Casasola Merkle
Head of 3D Production: Matthias Zabiegly
Producer Animation Studio: Julian Fischer

3D Artists: Leonhard Akinbiyi, Elisabeth Schlichtner, Jens Kindler, Michael Haupt, Jörg Vogel, Sven Mai, Holger Aumüller, Christian Freisleder, Lars Korb, Stefan Voigt, Holger Biebrach, Simon Fiedler, Patrick Hecht
Junior 3D Artist: Thilo Seifert
Animators: Philipp Strasser, Christian Scheck, Christian Lachenschmidt
FX: Fuat Yüksel
Supervisor Car Asset: Holger Aumüller
Shading Artist: Raphael Rau
CAD: Christian Förg, Maruan Attia, Markus Sick
Rigging: Jörg Vogel
Tracking: Johannes Weiss
Rotoscope: Manuel Voss
Compositing: Alexander Gabrysch, Tobias Müller, David Bobichon

Production Assistant: Jessica Lorenz
DoP: Philipp Geigel
1st Asst Camera: Hendrik Jansen
2nd Asst Camera: Stefan Betz
Key Grip: Clemens Bachmann
Grip Asst: Chrissi Heinrich
Gaffer: Jürgen Thiele
Electricians: Christian Weber, Christof v. Barany
Special Constructions: Henrik Scheib
Make-Up Artist: Sabine Gludovacz
Stand-In Rehearsals: Adrian Lobo
Sound Recording, Design & Mixes: Heiko Müller
Music Composer: Andrej Melita
Dubbing Voice Daniel: Beni Weber