RACING FACES

TitleRACING FACES
BrandOPEL
Product/ServiceOPEL MOTORSPORT
Category A10. Animation
Entrant SCHOLZ & FRIENDS Berlin, GERMANY
Idea Creation SCHOLZ & FRIENDS HAMBURG, GERMANY
Production MILL London, UNITED KINGDOM
Production 2 SIZZER AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
Production 3 STRING AND TINS London, UNITED KINGDOM
Production 4 HASTINGS MUSIC Hamburg, GERMANY
Credits
Name Company Position
Niels Alzen Scholz & Friends Chief Creative Officer
Willy Kaussen Scholz & Friends Creative Director
Julian Preuss Scholz & Friends Art Director
Johan von Suchodoletz Scholz & Friends Copywriter
Tobias Nientiedt Scholz & Friends Head of CGI
Dr. Percy Smend Scholz & Friends General Manager
Gero Quast Scholz & Friends Client Service Director
Lisa Mötzing Scholz & Friends Account Manager
Anne Hofmann Scholz & Friends Agency Producer
Sonia Pflesser Scholz & Friends Agency Producer
Jimmy Kiddell The Mill+ Director
Oliver Allgrove The Mill+ Producer
Rebecca Perry The Mill+ Producer
Justin Stiebel The Mill+ Producer
Aurelien Ronceray The Mill+ Concept Design
Dan Moller The Mill+ 3D Lead
Jorge Montiel The Mill+ Animation Director
Sauce Vilas The Mill+ Animation
Sauce Vilas The Mill+ Animation
Alberto Lara The Mill+ Animation
Ashley Tilley The Mill+ Modelling
Thomas Bourret The Mill+ Rigging
Jacob Gonzales The Mill+ Lighting, Grooming
Pete Hodsman The Mill+ 2D Lead
David Toba The Mill+ Editor
Hugo Vaughan-Hughes The Mill+ Editor
Seamus O’Kane The Mill+ Editor
Tina Müller Opel Chief Marketing Officer
Tamas Bator Opel Head of Brand Communications Vauxhall
Tobias Gubitz Opel Director Brand Strategy and Marketing Communications

Brief Explanation

Ready. Set. Blow!!! In the Opel Motorsport wind tunnel, five animals get to experience the sort of speed that’s normally reserved for the cockpit of an Opel rally race car. Tongues flapping, hair blowing and, in some cases, saliva splattering – we see these unorthodox racing drivers confront a huge turbine engine rotating at high speed to the adrenalin-infused soundtrack ‘Kick Start My Heart’ by the Mötley Crüe.