Skycar Recent News

Skycar stopped time with the help of Medallia and Kaleidoscope Coffee, a local Point Richmond coffee shop. Our amazing talent performed the Mannequin Challenge admirably while our Steadicam weaved among them. The goal was to illustrate the countless signals gathered at any millisecond. We then rewound time to illustrate how the otherwise unfortunate scene would turn out differently with Medallia’s help. This film played as the opening keynote film for Experience ’19 and now serves as Medallia’s new anthem video.

Skycar took to the wind-swept hills of Nicasio, California to showcase the After Effects feature Content Aware. With a gorgeous scenery backdrop and actors in full period costume, we developed a fresh take on Golden Age Hollywood film endings. In post-production, we used a before and after approach to show how Content Aware quickly removes imperfections. And, thanks to caffeine, we went from shoot to final delivery in just one week.

High resolution, multi-layered, effects-laden images were once only possible in Photoshop for the desktop. For the much anticipated PS for the iPad launch, Adobe asked us to shoot, build, and animate a complex image that appears to be in the typical Photoshop UI, but hey look at that – It’s on the iPad!

Our digital film ‘Document Journey’ got upgraded to a broadcast spot!

It’s airing on the Golf Channel and NBC during key tournament weekends; including the Pro-Am and Honda Classic. Go behind the scenes from the production last fall to see how we practically shot all of the colored sets with minor clean up in post!

Meet our team: Mike McAfee – Operations Coordinator

Mike serves as the chief snack procurer for the shop. He also performs equally critical duties, such as processing invoices and coordinating payroll. Outside the office, you will likely find him making art, concocting delicious homebrew recipes, or hanging out with his dog.

We built a 9-camera rig for a 3D photo booth at Adobe Design Summit 2018, and had a lot of fun doing it. Take a look at our behind-the-scenes video for a glimpse at the action.

Meet our team: James Curtis – Animator

James is a super talented keyframe slinger, drone designer and pilot. He refuses to reveal his secret source for Korean BBQ Kettle chips and seems to have never had a bad day – it’s the weirdest thing.

Andrei is a man of few words but many talents. In addition to having wicked editorial chops and technical intuition, he has a black belt in Karate, is an avid rock climber, and accidentally learned Portuguese by binge-watching Brazilian films for a year.

Coca-Cola and Adobe Creative Cloud are asking artists to participate in their Tokyo Olympics creative community site. For every entry they are donating money to the Special Olympics (up to $35K).

The brief is very simple: Create a work of art celebrating Coca-Cola, sport, movement, strength, and unity using the brand assets and Adobe Creative Cloud Tools.

Here is our entry to the cause.

We made this video showcasing designer Anny Chen as she creates a piece of art for the Adobe Creative Cloud x Coca-Cola campaign #CokexAdobexYou.

Coca-Cola and Adobe invite you to create a work of art celebrating sport, movement, strength, and unity using Adobe Creative Cloud tools. For every entry they are donating money to the Tokyo Special Olympics.

www.cokexadobexyou.com

Let them eat cake!
Skycar Creative turned 3 and we’re still celebrating. Here’s to many more!

We’re very happy to present this updated showreel which uses new and archived shows:

Music: Vulfpeck- “Back Pocket”

Here is a video that we made with Adobe Stock assets. It was super fun to explore Adobe’s stock libraries for vectors, photographs, videos and 3D-models. Most of all, we’re very proud of how the ending animation came out- Check it out here:

We’re excited to see our Intro & Outro animations in new episodes of Adobe’s Make It series. As an Adobe production, the talk show features artists and professionals who have used Creative Cloud tools in their specialized field whether in photography, design or video.

Part of our task in animating these Intros and Outros was to reflect these different fields in relation to the featured artists. Another consideration was to incorporate images and color themes that would correspond to different Creative Cloud tools depending on the episode.

Here’s an episode featuring Keetra Dean Dixon:

Here is some behind the scenes footage of “Timezoned”, the second episode in an ongoing stop-motion series. We mirrored much of the art direction that was established by the first episode of the series and continued to use the Skycar office as a set for the project.