The Giant Ant crew joins Nike to celebrate the Lunar New Year with a taste of animated fun and fantasy in this wide-eyed story featuring Chinese sprinting star Su Bingtian.

“We had the pleasure of diving into this great brief from Wieden+Kennedy Shanghai, taking inspiration from classic Asian animation, building a rich 2D world full of detailed matte paintings topped with frame-by-frame character animation.”
 
 

 
Client: Nike

Agency: W+K Shanghai

Production: Republic Studios
Director: Giant Ant
ECD: Jay Grandin
EP: Teresa Toews
CD: Eric Pautz
Head of Character Animation: Sitji Chou
Head of 2D Animation: Conor Whelan
Producer: Cory Philpott
Creative Direction: Sitji Chou
Art Direction: Eric Pautz
Animation Direction: Sitji Chou
Illustrator: Eric Pautz, Sitji Chou, Esther Cheung, Joan Chung, Tristan Menard, Sanaa Agatha Coste, Colin Bigelow, Conor Whelan
Cel Animator: Sitji Chou, Esther Cheung, Louis Roba, Joan Chung
Clean Up Animator: Alex Murphy, Bruno Brasil, Aaron King, Margarita Rojas Lopez-Abadia, Fernanda Ribeiro
Compositing Lead: Conor Whelan
Compositing: Alex Murphy, Diego Maclean