Aikido
Aikido
YC Launch Film for Aikido Technologies
YC Launch Film for Aikido Technologies
YC Launch Film
Live Action + 3D
YC Launch Film
Live Action + 3D
Aikido builds AI data centers that float at sea: powered by offshore wind, cooled by the ocean, anchored to the seabed. Led by CEO Sam Kanner, part of NVIDIA Inception. Backed by Y Combinator (F26).
Aikido builds AI data centers that float at sea: powered by offshore wind, cooled by the ocean, anchored to the seabed. Led by CEO Sam Kanner, part of NVIDIA Inception. Backed by Y Combinator (F26).
01 The problem
Aikido's product lives hundreds of miles offshore. Nobody can visit it, and the first unit hadn't hit the water yet.
The film had to make an AI data center in the middle of the ocean feel real, and make the founders look like the team that can build it.
01 The problem
Aikido's product lives hundreds of miles offshore. Nobody can visit it, and the first unit hadn't hit the water yet.
The film had to make an AI data center in the middle of the ocean feel real, and make the founders look like the team that can build it.
02 End to end in 10 days
We handled the whole production in 10 days: script, storyboard, a one-day shoot with the founders in Alameda and Pacifica, then the edit, motion graphics and 3D animation of the platform at sea.
02 End to end in 10 days
We handled the whole production in 10 days: script, storyboard, a one-day shoot with the founders in Alameda and Pacifica, then the edit, motion graphics and 3D animation of the platform at sea.
03 Solving the 3D
The platform doesn't exist at full scale yet, so we built it in 3D: the floating hull, the turbine, the mooring and the data halls inside, set in open ocean and matched to the live-action shots so the cut from founders to platform feels like one world.
03 Solving the 3D
The platform doesn't exist at full scale yet, so we built it in 3D: the floating hull, the turbine, the mooring and the data halls inside, set in open ocean and matched to the live-action shots so the cut from founders to platform feels like one world.
04 Behind the scenes
Shot on location in Alameda and Pacifica in a single day, with the three founders on camera.
04 Behind the scenes
Shot on location in Alameda and Pacifica in a single day, with the three founders on camera.