DJ Khaled x Wendy's: Drive Thru
Client
Wendy's
Role
2D — 3D Motion Designer
Studio
Golden Wolf
Year
2024
Full film by Golden Wolf. My shots below.
My contribution
Two of the nine animations were animated by Jo Baaklini and me.
The first was a pool of golden burgers and golf balls, built with Cinema 4D's new rigid body system. The challenge was the loop: a physics simulation doesn't cycle. I built a large cloner holding all the food items and dropped it onto an inclined plane with added forces to drive the motion, then brought a second wave over the top to wipe the frame — the cut hides inside it, so the loop never reads as a restart.
The second was an 8-bit 'Pac-Man' piece, where DJ Khaled chases and eats the food to grab the Biggie Bag.
About the project
Golden Wolf produced nine looping animated films for the Wendy's x DJ Khaled drive-thru experience, a pop-up at the Daytona 500. Visitors rode a golf cart through a tunnel of psychedelic visuals built around DJ Khaled's two passions, golf and hip-hop.
Behind the Scenes
CREDITS
Client
Wendy's
Managing Director / Executive Producer
Dotti Sinnott
Executive Producer
Tan Jones
Creative Director
Charles Bigeast
Head of Production
Heidi Stephenson
Talent Director
Henry Purrington
Art Director
Mathieu Durand
Producer
Jade Jordan
Production Coordinator
Dani Bordelon, Alex Young
Resource Manager
Beatriz Rodrigues
2D Animation Leads
Thomas Eide, Stephanie Mercier Designers: Johnny Cardoso, Nick Stoney, Dan Burgess, Jo Baaklini, Wren Wright, Cendan Claiborne, João Lavieri
2D Animation
Thomas Eide, Tim Whiting, Ian Chan, Wren Wright, Mylène Cagnoli, Jennifer Belobi, Rohit Kelkar, Henrik Soenniksen, Suejee Lee, Johnny Cardoso
Motion Graphics
Laurence Parsons, John Taylor, Mathieu Dellabe, Mathieu Durand, Jo Baaklini, Yael Bloom, Ian Pinder, Marco Grandinetti
3D Animation
Jo Baaklini, Marco Grandinetti
Comp
Laurence Parsons, John Taylor, Yael Bloom
Live Action Footage:
We Are Far Out
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