Final Frontier Signs Director/Visual Artist Andrea Devia-Nuño
June 4, 2026
Blinkink director Nicos Livesey, whose stop-motion titles for BBC’s coverage of the UEFA Women’s EURO nabbed a BAFTA this year, expands his animation canvas exponentially in this trailer for the World Cup on BBC Sport.
Nicos Livesey: “This is one of the most technical shoots we’ve ever taken on. With complex transitions, every object behaves differently and that’s the magic! The imperfections, the fingerprints, the texture are what make it feel alive.”
“Drawing on the expertise of knitting experts, enamel badge makers, stop-motion animators, and illustrator Dan Evans, each sequence combines traditional fabrication techniques with carefully crafted animation and illustration.”
From Blinkink: “The campaign is rooted in a simple but powerful idea: that football belongs to its fans. Built around the shared anticipation of the global football community, the mixed-media film captures the build-up to the tournament through the physical language of fandom, elevating everyday artifacts into cinematic storytelling devices.
“The goal was to mix live-action and animation craft to create one seamless story. For the live-action, everything was shot with a documentary-style sensibility, where the footage feels intentionally intimate and unpolished and the camera moves with immediacy and intent.
“Drawing on the expertise of knitting experts, enamel badge makers, stop-motion animators, and illustrator Dan Evans, each sequence combines traditional fabrication techniques with carefully crafted animation and illustration, weaving together live-action fan moments and animated worlds.”
Client: BBC
Agency: BBC Creative
Director, BBC Creative: Justin Bairamian
Head of Production: James Wood
Head of Planning: Nat Lau
ECD: Richard Biggs, Dave Monk
CD: Nina Beyers, Tom Espezel
Creative: James Briggs, Toby Derham
Senior Producer: Rachel Roberts
Head of Design: Tanya Holbrook
Design Director: Veronica Law
Lead Designer: Georgina Hall
Lead Motion Designer: Graham Joy
Production: Blinkink
Director: Nicos Livesey
EP: Bart Yates
Head of Production: Alex Halley
Producer: Jack Bristow
Post Producer: Molly Turner
Lead Designer: Dan Evans
1st AD (Live Action): Tom Kelly
DOP (Live Action): Carlos Veron
Production Designer (Live Action): Joe Withers
Costume Stylist: Zahra Asmail
Hair & Make Up Artist: Natasha Lawes
Location Manager: Eser Savrin
1st AD (Stop-motion): Sandy Liddle
DOP (Stop-motion): Malcolm Hadley
Stop-motion Animator: Andy Biddle, Tobias Fouracre, Anthony Farquar-Smith
Stop-motion Rigger: Andy Spradbery
Production Designer (Stop-motion): Rosie Tonkin
Lead 2D Animator: Reg Issac
VFX Lead: Simone Ghilardotti
Live Action VFX Supervisor/Compositor: John Malcolm Moore
Stop-motion VFX Supervisor/Compositor: Alasdair Brotherston, Rob Ward
Edit: Tenthree
Editor: Nick Armstrong
Edit Assist: Matt Marshall
EP: Sophie Honour
Grade: Black Kite
Colorist: Rich Fearon
Producer: Tamara Mennell
Behind the Scenes Videographer: Ben Dowden
Sound Design/Mix: Factory
Sound Designer/Mixer: Mark Hills
CD: Anthony Moore
Executive Audio Producer: Deborah Whitfield
Senior Audio Producer: Olivia Endersby
Post: Pictureshop
Senior Editor: Jordan Caple
Dubbing Mixer: Rashid Ariori
Music: Tomora “Somewhere Else”
