Project Nike Air Max Day Agency Bonjour lab Year 2024 Award Bronze

Nike Air Max Day

https://www.bonjour-lab.com/projects/nike-air-max-day-2023/

In March, we teamed up with Nike Paris and Perimetre to celebrate Nike’s Air Max Day 2023 via a digital experience designed to let their fans’ personalities shine. Together, we’ve created a 3D scanning experience, empowering all guests to create their own customized 3D avatar, dress them up with the latest Nike outfit, and showcase their creation in real-time on the iconic EP7 Paris façade.

As visitors step into the venue, they are welcomed by four scanning booths, each equipped with a tablet they can freely use to capture three snapshots of their face, creating a full 3D scanned avatar of themselves within seconds.
Once created, this avatar is ready to be personalized, allowing adjustments to skin tone, height, body shape, hairstyles, and more, using a diverse library of meticulously crafted Nike outfits, including clothes, accessories, and the brand new Nike Pulse shoes, ensuring they can dress in style. Upon completion and approval, a QR code appears on the tablet, allowing them to collect a video of their avatar, providing a memorable and shareable experience. Last but not least, their personalized avatar is swiftly animated and instantly displayed on the outdoor LED screen of the venue, alongside PSG’s young phenomenon Warren Zaïre-Emery and Olympic gold medalist foil fencer Enzo Lefort, for everyone to see.

By stepping outside the venue, all guests could witness their digital doppelgängers come to life on the massive moving screen. The in-stage screen has been designed as an arrangement of anamorphic boxes, accentuating the immersive perspective of the experience. All avatars created by the guests are animated, striking natural or fashionable poses, in coordination with the brand ambassadors, fostering a strong sense of community. In between the avatar parades, exclusive brand content meticulously crafted to celebrate the launch of the new Air Max Pulse was presented, adding an extra layer of excitement to this event.

To ensure top-notch quality in our experience, we used advanced real-time raytracing in our app, a technique renowned for its ability to elevate visual excellence by faithfully replicating light behavior, resulting in remarkably realistic reflections, shadows, and lighting effects. A virtual server is at the core of this operation, ensuring everything runs smoothly. When four avatars are ready on the server, the app on the LED screen instantly brings them in, fitting them seamlessly into the customized timeline. Additionally, the server generates unique URLs for all guests to easily download their personalized avatars.

Credits

Creative Director
Perimetre studio
Art Director
Hugo Elkaïm, Camille Marc
Photographer
Julya Baisson, Ben Berzeker, Dix-huit prod, Nike
Technical Direction
Bonjour Lab
Executive Production
Double Dragon
A/V Support
AP-01
Account Direction
Mohamadou Nimaga
Technical project coordinator
Maher Zguir
Project manager
Antoine Lang
CGI
Mélanie Cauty, Léa Ware, Arkonte
CGI extracts
New format
Motion Design
Loeiz Guillo, Mélanie Cauty
Stylist
Liban Ali
3d cloth modeling
Jean Jaulhiac, Billy Sueiro
3d hair design
Haruthaï Marchand
3d/animation real time
Theo Rocquancourt, Florian Coppier
Scenography
Benjamin Menager
Software development
Alexandre Rivaux, Nacho Cossio, Max Vermesch, Avaturn
Category 707 Digital Installations & Interactive Environments Client Nike Country France