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Golden Wolf director/CD Stefan Falconer, serves up a series of over-the-top spots to help Coca-Cola’s new OOHA soda make noise in the crowded Thai market.
Also see https://vimeo.com/827864923
A fast-paced edit of graphics, images of Atlanta and the players from the Hawks Basketball team.
A vintage, cinematic, sports-oriented feel that captured the magnitude and scope of basketball’s most powerful story.
Inspired by graphical posters from the 60’s with minimalist design, strong perspectives and a reduced color palette borrowed from the Roland Garros branding.
Working in his free time on this animation trying different techniques and styles and paying tribute to Ronaldinho.
The battle between South African Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya and the I.A.A.F. over her gender and ban from competition.
Lots of design/animation styles in this tribute to the World Cup 2018.
Legendary Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson reflects on a grueling and often surreal life between the goalposts.
Great bit of motion work with rotoscoped live action and gritty textures. Feels very contemporary. By Roger.tv
Fun, Dynamic and colourful smoke trail animations and sport related motion graphics.
A graphic tool kit created for all of the Fox Sports Regions to customise with their own MLB teams, text and highlights.
Small 3D animation that unites different types of sport in a constant shape shifting harmonised clip
BBC Sport wanted to highlight the updated rules for the upcoming season of Formula One, so Red Bee asked us to design & create this trailer, featuring evolving blue-print cars integrated with race footage.
Mix of footage, 3D and cel-animated elements to create intense energetic bike racing titles.
by NERDO
Baltic CG master Rimantas Lukavicius makes the case for Nike’s “Move to Zero” sustainability plan.
Lots of painting onto stills and live action. Directed in collaboration with Ruff Mercy for the basketball world cup 2019 for DAZN creative
Lots of nice pencil and paint-strokes in these titles for Sky Sports coverage of Cricket’s 2019 Ashes Series. Also available for the Men’s: https://vimeo.com/351365553
Watch ZL1 engineer Tony Roma and Formula Drift racer Conrad Grunewald demonstrate the latest Chevrolet Driving Dynamics technologies as they hit Willow Springs International Race Track with Corvette and Camaro.
Some really nice grungy, hand drawn retro treatment to basketball footage in this main title for “Shut up and dribble”
A great rant using big named players shot on greenscreen and collaged with lots of GFX.
Nice 3d colourful animation with pulling and pushing assets into the scene.
By Lumbre
Some great motion graphics from a documentary on the discovery of the scale of the Russian doping program.
Director: Bryan Fogel, Animations: Office of Development & Design
Some great 3D motion graphics from Feed Me Light
Creative Direction : Feed Me Light
Lead Creatives: Denis Bodart / Olivier Pirard
Supervisor: Olivier Pirard
Storyboarding: Denis Bodart
Previz: Ricardo David
3D Modeling, Animation, Lighting: Olivier Pirard
Mograph: Kris Cook
Compositing: Olivier Pirard
Sound/Music: Stelian Derenne
Art and Graft produce another carefully design short promoting the Olympics in collaboration with the Lottery and ITV. A pleasant mix of 2D and 3D rendered seamlessly in a coherent design style.
A mix of 2D and 3D animation in this stylish music video. Animation by Brunch & amazing Cinematography.
Often seen as part bumpers during football matches these William Hill adverts combine live action and lots of different styles but it’s the comic strip overlays that appeal most to me.
Excellent promo for Nike by ECD Jonathan Notaro and the Brand New School. It mixes drawn animation with CG elements to produce this gritty animation with a limited colour palette.
One of a series of promos for Ultimate Fighter on Fox using rapid editing and splashes of hand-drawn type and scratched elements. By State Design.
STATE Design‘s promo for the FOX Sports coverage of the 2015 Women’s World Cup in Canada featuring largely still images but animated into a superb mix with sketched lines and ink splashes and ooddles of humour.
Using flat colours to create a mix of 3D and 2D with transitions separating it out from a crowded genre of similar films. Screen print texture added to give it that old racing poster feel too.
A short essay by Bill Maher on why American Football owes so much to Socialism; no doubt much to the distress of many patriotic fans.
Directed and Animated by Fraser Davidson
Parallax used to the highest degree to create these idents by Brothers & Sisters. Although looking like slowed down footage, stills were placed within a 3D environment, composited with animated details and moved with a virtual camera.
For this year’s US Open Tennis tournament, IBM and Ogilvy & Mather invited ‘Buck’ out to Arthur Ashe Stadium to create live video animations using data from the tournament, delivered via Instagram. Using live data meant designing and deploying a custom toolkit and workflow that could shift with the on-court action, delivering responsive data-based animations, rendered and uploaded in minutes.
lots of watercolour washes bring in the video which itself has been treated with the watercolour look.
John Allison and Chris Bovill, Creative Directors of 4creative where the drivers behind the 45 hours of footage, shot over two days using 44 cameras and a cast and crew of almost 300 people, including race and stunt horses and jockeys to achieve the ambitious final film.
Nice title sequence using interesting motion on hockey notation and jump cut editing
The new 2012 trailer for Wimbledon from Red Bee Media. Still trying to work out whether this this could have been achieved without painstaking attention to detail.
Quayola (aka ‘dQ’) and Memo Akten through digital production outfit Nexus Interactive Arts, have created ‘Forms’, a multiscreen digital artwork commissioned by the National Media Museum for the exhibition In the Blink of an Eye: Media and Movement, which is part of the Cultural Olympiad programme.
Very good use of presenter in a studio cut with very stylised graphics. Design & Animation: Oz Smith
Creative Director: Greg Millar for BBC sport.
A study in high speed photography or clever morphing of stills using twixter plugin for After Effects.
Animated pitch using a form of parallaxing to create an extreme slow-motion effect of a horse mid-jump.
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Pitched idea, coming from a reflective idea, emitting the images of sport off the dark black emerging cubes. By placing the sports footage in different 3D spaces the images reflected and combined on different surfaces.
Sky Sports idents mixing live action footage with CGI smashing glass. The figures were rotoscoped and added into 3D environments.
