Nerve is a 2016 American techno-thriller adventure film directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, and written by Jessica Sharzer, based on the 2012 novel. 

The film stars Emma Roberts, Dave Franco, and Juliette Lewis, and revolves around an online dare game, which allows people to enlist as “players” or “watchers”, and as the game progresses, the players are contacted and invited to participate in more dangerous dares than their prior ones.

I created a range of graphic animations  throughout the film. The visual language of UI become a central influence on the style, reflecting how much our daily experience is now shaped by digital interfaces and the interactions we’ve learned through them.

For the film, the Nerve app was as much a character in the story as the rest of the cast, and the directors were intent on showing how the relationship between human and interface can become obsessive, and eventually spiral out of control.