Skycar  Projects

After the Meeting (A Shelter-At-Home Movie)

It’s April 2020, deep in the COVID Shelter-In-Place order. Kids are trapped in their homes and parents are stuck in little virtual meeting boxes all day. Skycar Creative Director Aaron Barry had a fun and challenging idea for a short film. So, he worked out the details with his wife, bribed the kids to act in it (nine scenes over two and a half days), and his oldest son composed and performed the music. Hope you enjoy!

Skycar Launch

Coke Momentum

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 invited artists to create a work of art celebrating sport, movement, strength, and unity using Adobe Creative Cloud tools. For every entry they donated money to the Tokyo Special Olympics.

Lightroom What's New

Did you create a Lightroom preset for photographing clouds? Now you can put it on The Cloud and access it from any device. Storm clouds making your photo too dark? Try auto-adjust. Clouded lens? Create an artistic look with split toning effects. We made this short film to show off Lightroom's new features... we have a feeling you'll be on cloud nine after using them.

Sensei Comedy Series

If you work on a farm, you definitely need a guy who handles crops. But if you work in an office, you probably don't need a guy who only handles crops. Adobe's Ai can do that for you.

Analytics Overview

Data and User Experience go hand in hand in the world of analytics and product design. Adobe Analytics helps companies figure that out. And we helped Adobe illustrate how that works in this little video we put together for them.

Coke - Anthem

Coke Cola is not just a drink, it's a brand experience. Come wrap yourself in it. And see if you can spot our producer's arm.

Create Magazine - Town Force One

We made our first film for Create Magazine. It’s an Oakland story featuring kids of Oakland Kids First and the legendary comic book artist Jimmie Robinson.

Electro Creative Sizzle

When Electro – Clorox's in-hour creative studio – was invited to the IHAF Awards, we jumped at the opportunity to celebrate their work with a sizzle reel. They kindly welcomed us into their Oakland headquarters to film their creatives in action as they developed packaging, print ads, and digital campaigns for their 40-plus brands.

Digital Academy

Breaking ceilings, blasting barriers, carving pathways. Adobe's Digital Academy focuses on giving people underrepresented in tech the tools they need to start their journey.

Content Aware Fill

Sound guys have been pissing editors off by getting in the way of beautiful shots since the invention of the boom mic. We showed how Adobe's content aware fill can make them disappear, in this play on a Golden Age Hollywood film ending.

Medallia Anthem

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 Complete Picture Project

Rebecca Grace is a filmmaker, an activist, and a close friend of Skycar. In 2017 she started “Complete Picture,” a nonprofit with a crucial mission: to tell the unheard stories of people facing long prison sentences for nonviolent crimes. Complete Picture makes films to help overburdened (and underpaid) public defenders advocate for commensurate sentences.

Doc Journey PGA TV

Adobe is the official document platform of the PGA Tour. Which means that PGA doesn't just stand for Professional Golfers' Association anymore... it also stands for PDFs Go Anywhere. We follow Acrobat through colorful frames – on the bus, at home, and even at yoga –to see how it lets you work anywhere.

Stellar Case Study - Vibrant

Argentines face staggeringly high inflation rates, meaning the value of their paychecks can plummet within days unless they're converted to U.S. Dollars. Our 3rd case study for Stelllar follows Vibrant, a Brooklyn based startup that set out to tackle this problem, and how they use Stellar to do so.

Stellar Case Study - Dstoq

We recently finished a second case study film for Stellar, this time about their work with DSTOQ. In the process, we made some new production friends overseas, working with local crews in Liechtenstein (where DSTOQ is based) and in South Africa. Check out the film to learn how DSTOQ makes investing more accessible and affordable using the Stellar blockchain. Or, just watch for the gorgeous drone shots!

Stellar Case Study - Cowrie Tempo

"One of the fundamental reasons that it's difficult to make cross-border payments from Nigeria, is that the Nigerian currency, Naira, is not globally traded". Our 1st case study for Stellar bounces between aerial and ground shots of Paris and Lagos, following Cowrie, a Nigerian fintech company, and Tempo France, a Paris-based money transfer service -- and showing how they overcame this significant hurdle.

Kulia Founder Film

Our self care routines should also consider care for others and care for our environment. Jasmine Keeney reflects on the relationship between nature and skincare as self-care in this film about her company Kulia.

Alaska Native Art - Series

We steeped ourselves in the raw footage, the sounds, the scenery and the history of Alaska native people, in order to create 5 films that truly honor this rich cultural history. It features the contributions of artists and cultural practitioners from across Alaska. We are grateful for each person’s participation and guidance: Qaĝaalakux̂, Quyana, Gunalchéesh, Haw’aa, Quyanaq, Thank you. To view the complete film series and online story, please visit: FAMSF.org

Flexibility in Action

We whipped up a nail-biting odyssey following a modern team of heroes; startup employees trying to deploy a feature in the face of a tough deadline. Spoiler alert: they get it done, thanks to HPE Greenlake's agility and ease of use.

Meta Climate Series

Earth Day began in 1970. 52 years later, it's more than just a nice concept – instead, it's a powerful reminder that we can't just talk about global warming, we need to take action.

Ai for iPad - Vectorize MAX Sizzle

Clarice Cho's artwork travels from pen to sketchbook, sketchbook to iPad, and settles on magazine pages and brick walls. We were lucky to get a behind the scenes look at her workflow, and see how she uses Adobe Illustrator's Vectorize feature along the way.

HPE GreenLake Comedy

Just put it on the cloud! The first part of the "Where's Oscar Series" for HPE.

Save Newark Wetlands

One of the last significant unprotected wetland areas in San Francisco Bay is being threatened by a luxury housing development. Skycar partnered with Save Newark Wetlands to create a short documentary, detailing the possible impacts of their wetland destruction, and how we can stop it together.

Illustrator for iPad

We locals call her The City. 49 square miles and famous for her hippies and her beatniks, her architecture and her hilly streets have long been the inspiration for many artists and creators. And she continues to inspire in the era of digital art.

METAseismic Anthem Film

Metaseismic is an advanced materials start up with an important goal - to rid the world of styrofoam once and for all. We love their mission and were thrilled to lend a hand in telling their story.

Holiday Greeting (New Year 2021)

Modal vibrational phenomena anyone? Happy New Year!

AERO Promo

San Francisco knows a thing or two about science fiction (Starfleet Academy anyone?). Now, as fiction becomes reality and as we move into a world that allows for augmented reality via AERO, The City continues to be the perfect backdrop.

Gnoël - a Skycar original film

Itʻs that time of year, we love the holidays, right? We love it until we find ourselves in the garage lost in the boxes of January disregard. But we must get these lights on the house, we must persevere. Luckily for Mateo he has some unexpected help.

HCI Comedy

After getting caught cutting a rug to telephone hold music Rex is put in the hot seat by two tough private eyes,. Luckily, fedora-clad Oscar brings good news and halts the interrogation.

Recology - Composting Video

Curious about the magical powers of composting? Wondering how you can help fight climate change? Of course you are! We partnered with Recology to bring to life this fateful journey of an apple core. You’ll never look at your food scraps the same again.

Arf Case Study

One thing we can confidently say about Stellar, is that they keep us branching out internationally. For this one, a local team helped us out in Istanbul where we look into Arf. If you look closely, you'll get to see a kitty. People love kitties.

Stellar x Moneygram Brand Film

Stellar is working on getting Crypto out to economies that have had limited access. Now users can bring in cash to Moneygram locations and exchange it for USDC. We hit Oakland ourselves, and had some international help for Bali.

CC Marquees for MAX

Have you seen those animated headers at the top of websites that you just scroll away from? People work hard on those! Those people are us.

Wyre Case Study

The fourth installment of our Case Study series with Stellar, follows the Wyre team on a rare sunny day in San Francisco. We used a combination of live action and cell/character animation to show how Wyre helps businesses access Stellar's blockchain platform.

Vibe Product Launch

The Vibe S1 smartboard is as awesome as it seems; it slices, it dices, it does your homework. We loved making this film with the Vibe Board team, they are as kind as the board is cool, and the process was a blast – especially with the amazing cast we got to play with.

Medallia x McLaren Partnership Sizzle

If we had a penny for every time we've made videos featuring F1 teams, we'd have two pennies. Which isn't a lot, but it's pretty cool that it's happened twice. This one is for Medallia and McLaren.

Storage Comedy - Part 2

In this episode of Skycar's HPE Storage Comedy: While on a covert coffee mission, Jade's camouflage is compromised (say that ten times fast!). Her saboteur Oscar delivers some good news – the dreaded storage reports have been neutralized by HPE Greenlake.

CTO Discover Intro

A little intro video we put together for Fidelma Russo's keynote at HPE Discover. Fun fact: that Big Hug Mug came from our kitchen!

HPE Tottenham Sponsorship

We joined HPE on an international adventure – filming in a London fry shop and at a nail-biter of a match in Hotspur Stadium. The VFX magic was added back home.

Adobe Gen AI Acrobat

In another life we might have opened up a surf shop instead. We got to play pretend here and look at how Adobe's Gen AI might have helped us use Acrobat to build our brand identity and sell some boards.

HPE Mercedes F1 Sponsorship

The first in our series of Sponsorship films for HPE imagining a world where anything you need simply (magically!) appears for you – right when you need it. Need coffee? Boom! Wardrobe change? Bam! Well, that’s basically what HPE technology provides for Mercedes (Want data and intelligence right now? Kapow!).