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COMMERCIAL·2025·NIKE

Aether Bloom

Aether Bloom opens a global product launch with ink unfurling in mid-air. The look sits between smoke and fluid — dense enough to read as material, light enough to feel weightless. Built as a custom pyro/DOP hybrid so blooms could be seeded on cue.

Aether Bloom cover

BREAKDOWN

Setup

A modified pyro solver with buoyancy driven by a custom density-to-velocity field. Blooms are seeded from animated points so timing could be dialed against the edit.

Look dev & render

Redshift volumes with a two-tone scatter — a warm core and a cool rim — to keep the ink from going muddy. Motion vectors exported for comp-level retiming.

SIMULATION NOTES

  • Seven bloom variants simulated, three used in the final cut.
  • Density fields exported at 1024³ for the hero.

CREDITS

CLIENT
Nike
FX & LOOK DEV
Dohzah
YEAR
2025