Role

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Design Director, Art Director, 3D Lead and Lead Animator

Year — 2017

2017 was a big year for the Australian Open with a new re-brand, and I was glad to be part of it.

Working directly with Tennis Australia, we translated this new re-brand into a moving graphic package, including idents, opener, stings and LED.

The Australian Open is one of four annual tennis grand slams held globally, and this new visual language was a move away from a common sports visual language to one that was more sports entertainment focused.

This montage below is a compilation of all of the work for this project, including some bits that didn't see the light of day at the Open. I had fun exploring this new rebrand and design directing on this graphic package.

australianopen2017-1 · 50s

Montage
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Styleframes
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Idents - Director’s cut

australianopen2017-2 · 29s

TVC Design Development
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australianopen2017-3 · 5s

Opener and stings (the opener is the director's cut version)
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australianopen2017-4 · 6s
australianopen2017-5 · 6s
australianopen2017-6 · 5s
australianopen2017-7 · 3s

I also got the chance to art direct the TV commercial, which you can see here. The below styleframes show the design development for the TVC.

Credits

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All live action footage courtesy of Tennis Australia.  

Client - Tennis Australia
Head of production - Rob O'Gorman
Technical Manager - John O'neil
Creative Director - Rachel Goldsworthy
Producer - Xavier Muhlebach
Design Director/Art Director/Lead Animator - Sept Putra
Animation: Jason James
Sound Designer: Sean Holmberg
LED Production Coordinator: Brad Kelson
LED supervisor & Technical: Toby Harding 
Projection Artist for TVC: Kit Webster