SUSE
Sales Summit

The visual direction was drawn from automotive and luxury brand cinema — Porsche, McLaren, and Nike campaigns were the primary references. The goal was to bring the cinematic quality of a car commercial to enterprise software. Edits were cut to music first in AE to establish pacing, energy, and the emotional arc before any 3D work began.

The environment was built in Cinema 4D inspired by two worlds — Tron's geometric neon-lit architecture and the glamour of Monaco. A full 3D city was constructed with architectural scale and detail that could hold up on a large-format LED wall. An animatic was produced and approved before committing to final renders.

Motion capture was performed by Brian Weaver for the principal character — a figure driving through the environment. Mocap data was cleaned and integrated into C4D, with Hector Polikov contributing junior animation and simulation support. The character performance was timed to the music edit established in pre-production.

X-Particles handled all simulation work — volumetric smoke that reacted to the character's movement and light trail effects that streaked through the environment. Multiple simulation passes were run and art-directed to hit the specific energy beats locked to the music edit.

Octane EXR multi-pass renders were composited in After Effects. Practical spark elements were integrated into the composite to add tactile, real-world energy to the CG environment. A cinematic color grade was applied — high contrast, deep blacks, saturated accent colors — dialled to feel like the luxury car commercials that inspired the piece. Final output was spec'd to the Monaco venue's LED wall resolution.