Manchester’s Stonesoup VFX has created the titles for the BBC’s coverage of the Commonwealth Games using a theme of sun and sea.
The Games are being held in Australia’s Gold Coast – a surfing capital with an average of 300 days of sunshine a year. Stonesoup created a sequence featuring rotoscoped Athletes dancing, spinning and running amongst golden streams of particles representing the “fluidity of waves and the aurora’s of the Australian sun”.
Creative Director JP Hersey said: “The Commonwealth Games are known as the friendly Games, so we wanted to create something positive and uplifting but also very beautiful.”
Animation Director Sean Cosgrave added: “It was a mind-focusing schedule – approximately four weeks from concept to deliver – but we relished the challenge.”
