Zipfizz

Pickleball

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Zipfizz delivers a jolt of joy. We followed the lead of our friends at Designit to bring that feel to life. A pickleball player peers into the tube and gets swallowed whole — pulled into a vivid blue world of floating berries and an impossible court. You're fizzin', bro.
Pickleball — highlight

Approach & Methodology

Three weeks from first call to cameras rolling. Day one was a real pickleball court — natural light, real space, the grounded world before everything goes sideways. Day two, a cyc stage painted blue top to bottom, transformed into the fizzy dream world Designit had drawn up. Keeping both environments visually coherent meant production design had to carry serious weight. The standout piece: a custom berry-explosion rig our production designer built to spray blue juice the moment a talent took a bite from a 3D-printed berry. Practical effect, post-ready timing, one clean hit of blue joy. The floating berries came together in post through compositing, layered into the blue-world footage to fill out the realm without overcrowding the performance. Casting, location scouting, releases, crew — all of it fell under ILLUXION's roof from the jump. Designit brought the vision. We brought the machine.

Behind the Scenes

Credits

AgencyDesignit
Production CompanyILLUXION
DirectorMegan Brotherton
DPKevin Schlanser
ADPete Souphasith
ACMaurice Morales
GafferJames Winters
GripMorgan Hendrickson
Production DesignerBrianna Murphy
HMULauren Deschain
Live SoundPatrick McBride
Prop MasterGreg Ryan
EditorKevin Schlanser
2D/CompositorBen Strickland
3D ArtistSteve Hansen
Mix and MasteringSynergy Productions

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