Oktane 2026
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Oktane 2026

'Keynote Opening Film'

A keynote gets one first impression. Oktane 2026's was ours: a countdown that enveloped the audience in transformative light and color, setting the pace for everything that followed. Spread across nearly 140 feet of screen in the Forum Ballroom at Caesars Palace Las Vegas, the film evolved Okta's new brand identity into a vibrant and refractive dimensional world. The Okta Aura logo sat at its center, a building block and visual lock, opening and closing the film on the idea at the heart of the brand: security that empowers. The adventure in between moved as a fluid current of excitement, drawing the room forward second by second until zero handed the stage to Okta.

Credits

Design & Animation
Scholar

Creative Director
William Campbell, Macauley Johnson

Art Director
Irma Hasanic

Managing Director / E.P.
Kirsten Noll

Executive Producer
Kev Jones

Head of Production
Nicole Smarsh

CG Lead
Kirt Critoph

Sr Producers
Seth Gantman, Josef LeBeau

Designers
Cristina Barna, Kyle Switzer, Mike Tavarez, Jieru Tang

 

2D Animation & Compositing
Sam Bachman, Matt Andrews, Jack Lykins, Helen Slavutsky

3D Generalists
Kirt Critoph, Jeff Briant, Garret Walter

Compositors
Eric Almeras, Michael Loney

Compositing Supervisor
Matt Lavoy

Flame Artist
Matt Lavoy, Louis Schachte

Editorial
Scholar

Senior Editor
Dominic Strazulo

Assistant Editor
Adrianna McKinley

Music Composer / Sound Designer
Music Orange

Final Mix
Lime Studios

We set out to build a visual adventure that never let up, one fluid current of motion that pulled Oktane 2026's audience deeper with every second.

PROCESS

Pairing bold abstraction with photoreal frosted glass in Cinema 4D, we pushed Okta's new brand off the page and into a dimensional world of color and light.