Sasquatch! Festival 2012
Live Nation, Digital Activation and Video
The Sasquatch! Festival is one of the largest and most epic outdoor music events in the world.
It was our task to create a digital presence to match. By considering what today’s festival goer values, we created a new strategy for bringing the event to life online. From UX and interactive design to front and back end development, we created a fresh, seamless direction for the new desktop, mobile and tablet sites. Unique features included a scheduling app, allowing festival goers to customize and edit their preferred show schedule, save and and share it across social channels. Finally, for the big announcement of this year's acts, we concepted, designed and produced a 3-minute animated trailer. The anticipation, after all, is often as thrilling as the event itself.
Launch Project
Truth
The Sasquatch festival is one of the largest and most epic outdoor festivals in the world.
Opportunity
A fresh and relevant digital strategy to match and excel the expectations of today’s festival goer.
Responsive Design
The web experience was designed and developed to adapt to the user environment on desktop, tablet or mobile. Effectively, there is 1 website with 3 views. The benefits to a user are a seamless experience that responds to their needs across device and platform. For a client, the benefits are a single backend to update content and a modern approach to effectively and efficiently targeting user experience.
ratio of video views to hours in 1 day
unique visits to site in 48 hours
unique layouts
rigged Sasquatch character
Line-up video behind the scenes
We were handed the lovable Sasquatch character design from Invisible Creature and it was up to us to concept, script, design and animate a killer line-up video.
The narrative and design was injected with cultural insights that tracked to the current trends and preferences of the target audience. Including, our favorite, an 8-bit video game inspired interface as a guide from one scene to the next.
We rigged the Sasquatch character and separated out the other elements so they could be individually animated. In addition, original assets like environments were created in a consistent creative style that was cause for lots of sketching and breaking out the watercolor paints.
Featured tracks in the video
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Ffunny Ffrends
Cave Singers - Dancing on our Graves
Tune Yards - Gangsta
Awards & Recognition
- Davey Gold Award
- OMMA Awards Nominee
- W3 Gold Award
- HOW Interactive Merit