To carry a missing piece of the FMX logo, six quite different animals use their particular strength and engage in a thrilling race through the dark forest.
The FMX trailers are traditionally created by students of the Institute of Animation, Effects and Digital Postproduction (www.animationsinstitut.de) at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. The 2014 trailer "Rugbybugs" was directed by Carl Schröter, Martin Lapp, Emanuel Fuchs, Fabian Fricke and Matthias Bäuerle and produced by Alexandra Stautmeister and Anica Maruhn.
All the sets are real built sceneries and were shot during one week in a studio. For a better integration the team worked with several light passes (red light, moon light, shadow pass etc.). A snorkel lense was used to achieve a „bug-perspective“ - this perspective also allowed the RUGBYBUGS team to use the Arri Alexa even though the sets weren’t bigger than one sqare meter. For modelling Maya and 3D Max were used, for sculpting and texturing ZBrush and Mudbox were employed. Animation was done in Maya. Nuke was used for compositing and VRay for rendering.
