GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS: JOY IN BUCKETS
"JOY in buckets"
To kick off the 2021 NBA season, the Golden State Warriors wanted to put out a hype video to celebrate the end of the basketball drought due to COVID-19 safety measures put into place during the 2020 pandemic. After almost a full year of no basketball, the idea to end the drought was to drench fans and die-hards with magically showering rain in everyday life situations. This is a play on the ‘Splash Brothers’ nickname given to the three-point shooting team.
This was a very VFX heavy job, but I am pleased with the result for the extremely tight deadline the team had to work on it. Late nights all around.
We had an extremely talented group on this one, directed by none other than Dave Meyer’s who has shot basically every major music video over the last five years for the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, Anderson Paak, and Harry Styles. Super cool guy.
LEFT - BILLBOARD
I was honored to have the opening shot which required a fully 3D billboard designed to look like the classic mechanical billboard of the cowboy. Instead of a cowboy though, it was to be Steph Curry doing his famous shimmy. The shot itself required the a lot of paint and comp work to adjust the building it sits on, which is an actual building in Oakland. Just know it’s all fake; the sky, building, billboard, birds, etc.
BOTTOM - MURALIST
Easily the hardest, most grueling, and head scratching roto and key job I’ve probably ever had to do, but I think it ended up as good as it could have given the raw footage and time. A few creative decisions on there I would have changed or altered given the opportunity, but hey what can you do.
Color corrected footage prior to any post work
3D wall replacement with keyed footage / rotoscoped arm and “spray” from spray paint can
Credits
Head of Photography: Quinn Gravier
Designers: Pedro Zuccolini and Benny Gold
Director of Production: Leila Gage
Company name: Elevel
Co-Creative Director of Elevel/Editor: David Becker
Assistant Editor: Steven Castro
Post Producer: Marie La Tourette
Director of Post Production: Michael Damiani
Colorist: Stefan Sonnenfeld
VFX Creative Director: Mike Landry
Motion Artists: Natasha Candelaria, Nick Bizzack, Luke Davisson, Zachary
Seidner, Lauren Kong
Executive Producer: John Dutton
Producer: Marie La Tourette
Audio Engineer: Nic Dematteo