Skycar Recent News

Skycar Creative is officially ten years old this fall. At 6:15am on September 15, 2014 Aaron and Jane officially launched the company and moved into our HQ in Point Richmond, CA. We’re so grateful to be here still, and well aware that it's because of all of our wonderful clients and creative community. Thank you to everyone who has helped us get this far!

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Now that we’ve arrived at Skycar 2.0 - we thought we’d include some of the originals that we created along the way.  

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The good folks at the California Academy of Sciences came to us with a challenge: ‘How can we shake things up for our annual Gala event video as we raise funds for our Thriving California program.’ Well, after a trip to Mars and back, we think we did just that.

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No matter how futuristic Adobe’s new digital tools get, the soul of these products remains rooted in tangible art. To celebrate the one year anniversary of Adobe’s Generative Ai tool, Firefly, we mixed the future with the past and sprinkled in a solid helping of fun.

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Here’s another crazy cool batch of generativeAI features that we helped Adobe announce recently. With an insane turnaround time, we shot a heist-type film scene to show off what the new tools will do. Fellow filmmakers should appreciate some of the quick new ways you can now actually ‘fix it in post’.

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With the help of jibs, dollies, and probe lenses we helped visualize breaking out of the “black box” of user experience data for Amplitude. Watch how we brought light into the darkness.

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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.

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Need just the right sprinkling of blockchain in your enterprise? Here’s our illustrated animation for Bastion that shows how to make it happen.

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Before looking ahead, here’s a quick smattering of projects we got to jam on last year. Thanks to all for your collaboration!

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We recently had two animations feature in the keynote at Adobe MAX. The Skycar team joined in person to watch the work on the big (HUGE!) screen and to take in all the excitement.

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This is the first in a series of Sponsorship films for HPE imagining a world where whatever you needed simply (magically!) appears for you – right when you need it. Need coffee? Boom! Wardrobe change? Bam! Want your earbuds? Thwip! Well, that’s kinda like what HPE technology provides for Mercedes (Want data and intelligence right now? Kapow!). It’s what helps make them one of the most successful Formula 1 teams in history. We flew to the UK to shoot with Sir Lewis Hamilton and the team in a huge warehouse with dozens of heritage F1 cars. Watch as everything conjures for Lewis as he walks to his car for a test run. Since it’s the first in a series, please check back for the next one!

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We teamed back up with our friends at Stellar to partner on a new case study film. This time we headed out to Dallas, Texas, ate way too much barbecue and pointed our lenses towards the good folks with Moneygram international. Stellar and Moneygram are teaming up to allow users to send money globally, protect against market volatility, and convert digital dollars to local currency at MoneyGram locations worldwide.

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Welcome to the future! Adobe is coming in hot with its new AI features, and now they’re available in Adobe Express. The Skycar squad stepped up the energy for this new sizzle collaboration, check it out!

We’ve been jamming on these promo animations for Adobe’s new AI features. Check out some of the cool stuff they’ve built into Illustrator!

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More Adobe Ai feature fun? Yep! Check out this recent sizzle we did on the incredible new Ai tools for Photoshop.

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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.

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