Iowa Wolves 2017-18 Creative

Below are two different projects that I created for the 2017-18 season of the Iowa Wolves.  The Wolves are the rebranded Iowa Energy of the NBA G-League and play at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, IA. The first is a logo transition piece.  This was created in after effects using the saber plug in and using the mask tool to first outline the state Iowa with the Wolves secondary logo, then a burst and it transitions to their primary logo.  There are matching pieces made for the fascia and auxiliary boards in the arena The second piece is a animated wheel of emoji's to be used as a keyed layer on the video board.  The wheel plays through the Ross Xpressions system.  The wheel is designed to start with the wheel already in motion so as to mask the previous outcome, it spins for six seconds and lands on a determined outcome, the final frame is held for 10 seconds, but in Xpressions, freezes on the last fame.  The Wolves have ten created fully functioning wheels with icons and a template to create more.

Iowa Wild 2016-2017 Graphics

Below are a variety of different projects that I created for the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League prior to the 2016-2017 season. the first one is part of an in-arena promotion where one fan with an exceptionally dirty car in the parking lot wins a free car wash from Executive Laser Wash in Des Moines. The concept is that the dirty screen is wiped away by a windsheild wiper to reveal the dirty car promotion winner
The next video is a sample for the in-arena groups welcome message. In this animation a zamboni with the America's Best log passes over the ice and removes the group name, seconds later a new group name appears and then is removed again, the file is set to loop until all group names have appeared.
The next video plays after the third goal scored by the Iowa Wild. For this promotion every fan in attendance receives a coupon for free potato oles at Taco Johns when the Iowa Wild score three goals in a game. There are two prior videos for the first two goals of the game. The first lights up the "O" and changes to "Unwrap the 1st Goal." The second lights up the "L" and then changes to "unwrap the 2nd Goal" This one of course now lights up "OLE" and "Unwraps Free Oles"
The last video is a custom animation that updates prior to each game to denote the game theme, sponsoring partner and team matchup. This plays on all arena screens, the web broadcast and video boards prior to each game.

Custom Twitter Ap Integration

While working at the Iowa Events Center I began writing a basic program to gather information published via twitter.  There were two main segments that we wanted to use.  We either wanted to the User_Timeline for the corporate twitter account, in this case @IAEventsCenter, or the second was for any special hashtag used by a concert or a show, i.e., #noshoesnationdm..

The idea would be to capture this information and parse it into a usable for format to display on the concourse TVs around the arena.  This would enable our marketing department to either post live information about current events to the screens or allow fans to send their messages and have them appear live on the screens.

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