Burton changes the industry
In 30 years, no company had successfully made a step-in snowboard binding.
Unlike the alpine industry where step in bindings the industry standard, Burton and other snowboard companies had had tried and failed and failed again to come up with a workable binding for the very different logistics of softer snowboard boots.
We are experienced 3D animators with the worlds leading software MAYA, but don’t get a lot of clients who need this level of expertise.
We received a call from Burton “We need a company that can do both very high end 3D animation and import engineering data from our IBM Catia CAD system.” (We can) .
In the last six years they had spent millions to crack the code. To be sure their latest investment in tooling, testing and distribution would work, Burton wanted to ‘pre-sell’ the idea before they made the massive manufacturing commitment in a revolutionary, unproven idea.
Burton wanted to ‘pre sell their product – before it ever existed. They asked us to work with their R & D dept., to create a photorealistic working 3D animation model of their idea from their engineering data. The goal was to take it around the world to their 800 dealer network to see if they would commit to buying – before they could touch it.
Today, a few years later, Burton ‘STEP-ON’ binding is the standard and helped to revive the snowboard industry worldwide
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