For the 2015 Google IO conference, we created a three minute animation to introduce keynote speaker Sundar Pichai.
The animation was designed to to fill a large auditorium with 270° video spanning five screens, 17 feet high and 591 feet wide.
The story begins with a countdown that freezes with 7 seconds to go, and follows a little red dot as he journeys through a world of apps to repair some missing code and resume the countdown to trigger the fireworks that introduce the speaker.
As CG lead I developed a streamlined and consistent method for generating the 270° projections from a single camera rig, oversaw a team of animators, and handled the modeling, lighting, animation, rendering and compositing of several scenes.
studio: yU+co
client: Whirled