A lot of ideas were tried out in the layout phase of the project of how to build a stylized Austrian mountain landscape. The moods ranged from artsy chrome landscapes with fluffy trees over a completely wooden environment to hills packed with curly circles. As the race takes place right in the middle of summer we quickly realized that we had to avoid everything that even remotely resembles an icy snowcovered landscape. Taking the lush green hillslopes of the area into account we ended up with the striped variations of green that you can see in the final animation.
For the first time ever we were asked to put rain into one of our animations. For achieving the wet and gloomy look we used a variety of techniques ranging from modeled 3D raindrops in slowmotion shots to 2.5D AfterEffects / Particular rain for added spraying goodness. All of the rain shots were treated with a good amount of TurbulenceFD smoke and spray simulations for the wet trail of the cars. Put in some simulations for ground water along with ripple shaders and splash fakes derived from the wakes of cruise ships and you're in for one wet ride.
Produced for & in close partnership with: Red Bull Media House GmbH Andreas Gall
Director / Producer: Peter Clausen, Peter Clausen Film & TV GmbH
Line Producer / Author: Cecilia Trück
Animation Studio: Aixsponza GmbH
CG Director / Editing: Christian Tyroller
VFX Supervisor / CD: Manuel Casasola-Merkle
Producer: Julian Fischer
3D Artists / Animators: Leohard Akinbiyi, Christian Lachenschmidt, Sven Mai, Christian Scheck, Marco Seeberger, Philipp Strasser, Matthias Zabiegly
CAD & Modeling: Holger Aumüller
Rigging: Jörg Vogel
Shading Artist: Raphael Rau
Fluid Simulation: Fuat Yüksel, Achim August Tietz
Compositing: Alexander Gabrysch, Tobias Müller
Composer: Andrej Melita
Sound Design & Mix: Heiko Müller