Adidas Originals – Original Is Never Finished

Shot in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Madrid and Shanghai – This worldwide campaign directed by Iconoclast’s Manu Cossu and created…
Adidas Originals "Original Is Never Finished"
Case Study

Shot in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Madrid and Shanghai - This worldwide campaign directed by Iconoclast's Manu Cossu and created by Johannes Leonardo's duet Wes Phelan & Matt Edwards is nothing short of a wild ride. 

The idea of evolution through revolution takes us through a frantic journey across multiple levels where we meet a vibrant crew of creative influencers, thus emphasizing that creativity is never finished. The spot features the likes of A$AP Ferg, Playboi Carti, Dua Lipa, Kaytranada, Adrianne Ho, Nick Young and Miles Silvas, to name a few.

The project provided several challenges to the team but in the end the lyrics, 'keep pushing on, things are gonna get better', from the track, were a real source of inspiration as they completed this project. 2D lead artist Antoine Douadi comments "Crossing the line between advertising and music video, we assembled multiple layers of rotoscoped plates along with a few CG augmentations, all inspired by an edit that was getting richer in intensity with every new version." 

Credits
Credits

Agency
Agency: Johannes Leonardo
Executive Producer: Maria Perez
Senior Producers: Tina Diep, Craig Keppler
Producer: Dustin Grant
Associate Producer: Alex Olivo
Junior Producers: Maddie Tiedrich, Jay Jenkins
Creative Director: Ferdi Verderi, Matt Edwards, Wes Phelan
Senior Copywriter: Jeph Burton
Senior Art Director: Hunter Hampton
Account Director: Sam McCallum

Production Company

Production Company: Iconoclast
Director: Manu Cossu
Executive Producer: Valerie Romer
Producer: Suza Horvat
Director of Photography: Mattias Rudh

Editorial
Editorial: Exile Edit
Editor: Robert Lopuski
Edit Assists: Christopher Fetsch, Alex Doyle

VFX Production
VFX Production: The Mill
Executive Producer: Rachael Trillo
Senior Producers: Nick Strange Thye, Bugs Russell
Producer: Andrew Gilson
Associate Producer: Ashley Goodwin
Production Coordinators: Mia Lalanne, Alana Giordano, Anuraj R
Shoot Supervisors: Corey Brown, Ajit Menon, Antoine Douadi

VFX Creative
VFX Creative: The Mill
Creative Director: Corey Brown
2D Lead Artist: Antoine Douadi
3D Lead Artist: Ajit Menon
2D Artists: Heather Kennedy Eck, Jeen Lee, Eric Sibley, Rob Meade, Alex Jacquet, Kyle Cody, Sohee Sohn, Lee Towndrow, Yoon-sun Bae, Ting Jung-Hsu, Kieran Hanrahan, Brad Scott, David Forcada
3D Artists: Jackie Liao, Jonathan McCoy, Sandor Toledo, Scott Denton, Carlos Sandoval, Hannah Lee, Taylor Cook, Ayush Bajoria, Senthil Murugan Balasundaram
Design: Jeffrey Buoncristiano, Bobby Ushiro, Mike Batista, Mario Stipinovich, Benge Li, Tetsuro Mise

Colour
Colour: Company 3
Colourist: Tom Poole
Executive Producer, Colour: Tom Gehring
Colour Producer: Alexandra Lubrano
Colour Assist: Jenny Montgomery

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