A collage featuring: an 8-bit style soccer player, nails painted with a footballer and red-white-blue gradient, orange soccer players art on a brick wall, and a smiling football bobblehead labeled YA MAAL—evoking Nicos Livesey animation for BBC World Cup. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Nicos Livesey Animates on Everything in Buildup to BBC’s World Cup Coverage

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. [Watch]

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Pyro-Mation: NOMINT Teases the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games on BBC

Wrangling 700 3D‑printed athletes and a dozen pyro techniques, director Yannis Konstantinidis and the fearless stop-motion crew at NOMINT craft a dazzling trailer for the BBC’s coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. [Watch]

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Nicos Livesey Stops at Nothing for 2025 UEFA Women’s Euro

Blinkink director Nicos Livesey and BBC Creative (who teamed on this breakout 2018 World Cup work) just dropped another craft-heavy soccer spot, a stop-motion spectacle for BBC’s coverage of the 2025 UEFA Women’s Euro. [Watch]

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Fx Goby and Nexus Studios Launch BBC 2024 Olympics Coverage in the City of Love

Nexus Studios’ director Fx Goby, whose wide-ranging character work you can see here and here, captures the passion and pain of 36 athletes in this rousing spot for the BBC’s coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics. [Watch]

Blinkink & Woodblock Add New Tilt to Euro 2024 for BBC

The quick pace and uncertain outcomes of the Euro 2024 tournament on BBC find an apt metaphor in star-studded pinball action via Blinkink directors Balázs Simon and Raman Djafari with Berlin’s Woodblock handling animation. [Watch]

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Go Behind the Scenes on Aardman’s New “Things We Love” Campaign for the BBC

Take a peek at the making of three new animated spots from the Aardman team as they revive the unscripted stop-motion techniques they pioneered on Nick Park’s timeless (and Oscar-winning) 1989 short film Creature Comforts. [Watch]