Nike x Super mario - Spec AD

I gave myself a fake brief: design a spec commercial for a sneaker collab that doesn't exist.

The concept paired a known footwear brand with Nintendo's Super Mario universe, inspired by the visual language of the original NES, limited colour palettes, and the flat graphic quality of early 80s game cartridge art reinterpreted through a modern commercial lens.

No client, no approval chain, no creative compromises. Just a chance to see how far I could push a self-initiated idea from brief to final frame.

Tools: Modeled and Animated in Blender - Shoe textured in Substance Painter - Rendered with Cycles - Compositing and VFX in After Effects - Colour grading in Davinci Resolve