Mountain Dew: Kiss from a Lime

For the 2025 Superbowl commercial season, I was fortunate enough to be the lead modeller on this amazing commercial for Mountain Dew. My main role was building a photoreal version of the singer seal...... on the body of a seal. Fortunately we had a great scan, and lots of access to the singer himself, so the quality of the reference was outstanding. I did the majority of the work in zbrush, focusing on shape and form, and blending seals facial features into the body of the seal. Additionally I worked on the supporting characters, the other seals, as well as an orca, and i modelled the preliminary forms for the island itself and the main rock the seals sit on before passing those into other dedicated artists for completion. We also produced a full set of faceshapes for seal, utlizing 4d captured scans (with motion) - and stripping them down to capture perfectly his mouth and nose shapes, so we would perfectly mimic his real performance. This was an incredible iconic project to work on, and im super proud of how it turned out.

3d model of the seals in Maya

Early layout and design of "Seal Rock"

3D sculpt of Seals head in ZBrush