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parallaxish

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  1. Hey gang, know it's been a while, but still been fiddling around with things Honestly unsure of how I feel about the logos where I used to have the line badges? I like that they're much more visible now and I feel like it could integrate a bit better with an overall graphics package but I lose that little bit of uniqueness it had before. (Also the lil line by the shot clock shrinks as it runs, for those curious)
  2. PEACOCK BASKETBALL BABYYYY I think it looks great! Love how it fits in well with their Saturday night Big Ten football package, and it looks great compared to other college looks this year.
  3. If my hunch is right it has to do with how the font is built. Tabular numerals (i.e., the ones where the one has a line on the bottom) are monospaced, while proportional numerals (no line on the bottom of the one) have variable width. If they were to use the same proportional numerals through the whole bug, the clocks would constantly be shifting left and right because the total width of the numbers would keep changing.
  4. Just an update to this project; expect to see some more stuff in motion within the next days or so!
  5. Hi, Fox. Can you please not take up 20% of the screen with scorebug and ticker stuff? k thanks (this is an edit btw, this is what it might look like if the bug were barely 1/3 the size it is right now)
  6. Wow I missed a lot but that new Fox baseball bug is ugly as all hell. How have they gone from having the nicest uniform graphics in pretty much all of sports to having clashing, over-the-top, plain ugly graphics? You'd kinda figure they learned that less is more but oh well. Hockey is looking very nice so far, though! Not really feeling the AT&T bug (lots of padding everywhere and weird spacing) or the font choice on the TNT bug (Roboto?? this isn't 2014), but besides that, everything feels fresh and modern. Also can we please appreciate how nice the NHL on TNT set looks?? The video walls are stunning.
  7. Apparently Fox also has matching new touchdown graphics for NFL too... ...it's awful. The CG team logo adds a little flair, but this just looks lazy.
  8. So... here's a big roundup of college scorebugs that are used right now. A state of the union for college ball, if you will. Fox Sports (also BTN) Basically the same as last year. Curiously, they changed the touchdown pop-up they had before (which was a bit much in the first place) to one that looks like literal wordart from MS Office circa 2012. Overall, the graphics aren't too intrusive, but they're a bit too blocky and industrial for my taste. Team logos aren't on the bug for some reason? It's nothing special. 6/10 CBS Sports This was the big change this season, following the new graphics reveal from the past Super Bowl and matching CBS's overall branding. The scorebug follows most of the same features as the previous one. The new font is nice, but a few things really irk me. First, the play clock looks very very off. The text isn't the same size as the game clock and down/distance text surrounding it, nor is it even aligned with them. The bug in general is very wide; there's acres of space between the team's record and the timeouts/score. The down/distance color matching the team's color is a nice touch that I'm glad they kept. Another feature that held over from the previous scorebug was the stat popouts from the top of the bar. If the stat highlights one team's stats in particular, the other team's part of the bug is greyed out. The problem is that when one team's logo and colors are very dark and feature lots of unsaturated colors, it's hard to tell that it's even happening. Were it not for the team's logo on the statline, I wouldn't know what team they're talking about. The touchdown graphic is nice. It's clean, it's exciting, it has a lot of motion, it matches the entire CBS-eye motif a lot of the other graphics do... it checks every box. Touchdown graphics in general have been trending towards big lower thirds rather than staying inside the bounds of the regular bug. Overall, sleek, modern, and a needed refresh to CBS Sports' look, even if it has a few flaws. 8/10 ESPN/ABC (PAC 12, Big 10, Big 12, SEC, ACC, etc etc) The college football graphics haven't changed on ESPN's side, and for very good reason. They're the best in the business when it comes to this stuff. Graphics are smartly organized, very colorful, and it just screams "college football." I love in particular the use of very subtle textures everywhere. Stats and notes show up next to the team's score and the logo is kept in view. Sometimes the possession indicator is a bit hard to notice, especially when a team's primary/secondary colors are the same or when the team's secondary color is very dark. Interstitials and CG work is absolutely stunning, as well. There's a lot more I could put here, but just know that everything is beautiful. 9.5/10 Pac-12 Network Bootleg old CBS Sports graphics but with Gotham instead of DIN and a few other changes. It works, I guess. Very minimalist, small footprint on the screen (if it weren't for the massive bottom line not seen here because I don't want to put it here). 7/10 NBC (Notre Dame only) They're still using the scorebug SNF used from 2015. Yes, it works, but it's just old and dated at this point. Why can't they just use the new (much better-looking) SNF graphics? 5/10 Bally Sports/Stadium/Sinclair[?] (Mountain West) Apparently Bally Sports graphics for football exist. They're a mess. The timeouts left indicator is very very ugly. Why does the game clock have milliseconds when they don't work? Why can't they center the period in OT? Why do the out of town scores take up 60% of the bug, and why are they just text? It really is just like someone took the hockey or basketball bug and tried to make it usable for a football game in 30 minutes. The down indicator is ugly as all hell here, too. 3/10
  9. To be honest, I dig the whole subtle gradient/soft shadow/rounded corners look. It's definitely in right now, but jesus that taskbar. It's massive, the centered look is kind of weird, and three of those buttons are unnecessary (and by that I mean you could just lump search, task view, and widgets into the start menu or at least make them shortcuts of some kind). Other than that, please please please someone tell Microsoft that Windows Explorer needs tabs. Seriously.
  10. Hockey scorebug, anyone? Normal play Power Play (Blues) Four on four (or any other penalty that affects both teams equally) Quick comparison stat (shots on goal in this example)
  11. This is the other side of what I'm working on, and what would be basic interstitials for each team. These have also been through a bunch of revisions, but I've started adding more texture and gloss into the logos and I think it looks great for now.
  12. Hi all (first thread!) Just wanted to dump a few of the things I've been working on for a while now. I had an idea some time ago to create a whole suite of uniformly designed broadcast graphics -- bugs, interstitials, stat graphics, the whole lot. Here's a few things I've built out: Football This is an older version of the suite, made around last year. It was made in Illustrator and After Effects, and it was definitely a good way for me to figure out a good workflow between the two programs and what would work best on screen and in play. Elements like the down indicator and the clock change color depending on which team has posession. Baseball version without standings version with standings This one is one of the more interesting sports to make graphics for because it's very stat-heavy and because of the bases indicator. This one also changes color; the background of the bottom box and the bases indicator match the color of the batting team and the lit bases match the secondary color of that team (ignore that there's a Royals batter onscreen, I just wanted to see what it would look like in red :P) That's all I have for now, let me know what you think!
  13. It's alright -- the boxes for the team scores are a bit too big and the team logos are zoomed in too much, but I think it's an interesting look for the current Bally package. The pitch count to the side is a bit weird, as well; maybe put it at the top of the graphic or just under his team? That bit just doesn't match.
  14. Hey, some intern somewhere spent like 10 minutes 5 minutes making this, give them some credit. Edit: oh my god they didn't even center the text why was there no effort put into this at all
  15. Don't know if this has ever been brought up here, but CBS actually had a baseball graphics package built out to match their NFL package in 2013 or so and another one to match the CBS Sports redesign in 2016. The thing is, it was only ever used for softball and college baseball. It's something that I've never seen on actual live TV and it's a rare treat that's really interesting to see. 2013 2016 Updated version of the same bug
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