"1080°" was directed by Masamachi Abe and Misthuro Tanako, programmed by Englishmen Giles Goddard and Colin Reed, developed and published by Nintendo, and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto. Abe had previously directed "Tekken 3" for Namco. Goddard had previously programmed the Mario face in "Super Mario 64", which was released two years prior to critical acclaim and was a huge commercial success, while Reed had programmed "Stunt Race FX". When developing "1080°", Goddard and Reed used a technique called "skinning" to eliminate joints between the polygons composing the characters. Their programming used a combination of standard animation and inverse kinematics, creating characters whose appearance during collisions is affected by what object is hit, what direction the collision occurs in, and the speed at which the collision takes place. Tommy Hilfiger outfits and Lamar snowboards appear throughout "1080°" as product placement. "1080°"'s soundtrack of "techno and beats" with "thrashy, vocals" was composed by Kenta Nagata.