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Converse Cherry - AW LAB

Clients

  • AW LAB

  • Converse

Services

  • Art Direction

  • 3D Art & Design

  • Commercial/Advertising

  • CGI

  • Sound Design

Production

2024

Three black Converse Cherry sneakers on a giant cherry in a CGI scene

For AW LAB, Anubi created a 3D CGI campaign for Converse Cherry: a dynamic film and key visuals designed for retail, digital and younger audiences.

A CGI campaign for Converse Cherry

AW LAB invited Anubi to present three new Converse Cherry shoes through a dynamic CGI film and a series of key visuals. The content was designed for the digital campaign and in-store screens, with an immediate visual language aimed at younger audiences.

The film moves from cherry blossoms to cherries and three Converse Cherry sneakers, presented on a giant cherry against a blue sky.
Transcript

Visual description: a cherry blossom opens; its petals give way to cherries that form the sneaker shapes. The film ends with three Converse Cherry models arranged on a giant cherry.

Close-up of a pink blossom bud on a pale branch against a blue sky
Pink cherry blossoms on a pale branch against a blue sky
Four glossy red cherries floating against a blue sky with clouds
Converse sneaker silhouette formed from glossy red cherries
Black low-top Converse Cherry sneaker on a giant cherry
Black high-top Converse Cherry sneaker with a lugged sole on a giant cherry

Formats for social, web and retail

The film and key visuals were adapted into multiple formats for social media, the web and AW LAB in-store screens in Italy and Spain.

Pink blossom bud on a branch in the vertical Converse Cherry composition
Three Converse Cherry sneakers around a giant cherry in a vertical composition
AW LAB store interior with the Converse Cherry campaign on a horizontal screen
Vertical screen in an AW LAB store showing a Converse Cherry sneaker on a giant cherry

Main film storyboard

The storyboard maps the visual transition from cherry blossoms to cherries and, finally, the three Converse models.

Eight-frame storyboard for the main Converse Cherry film

3D research and development

The research defined the CGI cherry blossom, from petal modelling to its arrangement on branches, before integration into the campaign film.

Side view of a black high-top Converse Cherry sneaker used as a 3D reference
Top view of a pink 3D cherry blossom model
Pink 3D cherry blossom on a dark branch during development
Monochrome cherry blossom shader render on a black background

Procedural workflow

The procedural workflow in Houdini developed the cherry geometry and flower variations; materials were built in Redshift to define colour and surface.

Houdini interface with procedural knitted cherry geometry
Procedural Houdini node network for the Converse Cherry campaign
Redshift material graph used for the CGI cherry blossom
Branches of the procedural Houdini network for the flower scene
Research animation showing coloured petals and flowers arranged procedurally on white branches in a 3D workspace.
Transcript

Visual description: coloured petals form flowers on a white branch; the view widens to show several variants distributed across the branches. The video has no audio.

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