Tron meets Minority Report in this opener for the NFL Network’s ‘Game Day Morning’ created by Big Machine Design. Great work.

Also a pretty slick interstitial…

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Some nice work from Joyride. Also be sure to check out their ESPN College basketball commercial.

ESPN Open 2011 from Joyride Creative on Vimeo.

ESPN College Basketball Promo Package from Joyride Creative on Vimeo.

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Paradise Square Films did a very nice job with this commercial for HBO Boxing.

HBO “I Still Have A Soul” from Paradise Square Films on Vimeo.

New WGN Sports openers for Chicago Blackhawks, White Sox and Cubs. Great job by the whole team at WGN.

Design and Concept: Eric Diga
Production Director: Eric Diga
Post-Production Direction: Bernard Ong
Producer: William Craig
Executive Producers: Jeff Wilson, Tom Vodick, Bob Vorwald
Producer/Editors: Ryan Johnson, Andrew Lennie
3D Lead: Michael Kislovsky
Motion Design/3D: Bernard Ong, Michael Kislovsky, John Long, Eric Diga

With the NBA lockout, I think College basketball has a real opportunity to take advantage of that market. And with this redesign by Troika, ESPN has a truly original and memorable package beautifully setting stage what college basketball can be… fanatical chaos. I suspect college basketball is going to become a lot more popular this year. Great job to the whole team at Troika.

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Argentinian animation ‘Studio Soup‘ has done a great job with this new show package for Combate Space, a very popular boxing program from Mexico. Also be sure to check out their other great work including some very cool animations for London 2012.

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Blur has really outdone themselves with this new robotic, futuristic, Fox NFL intro. Great job Blur!

Directed by Lance Acord and produced by Wieden and Kennedy for Nike.

Also, Dime Magazine has some nice behind the scenes footage. Check it out.

Really epic spot from Collider out of Sydney Australia.

Via Collider

This film features star players Ferdinand, Park, and Giggs of Manchester United in a surreal football game for Smirnoff & JWT. Daniel and producer Nicholas Wrathall mounted the 5 day shoot in Manchester above and below the water. Shot by Alex Lamarque, Edited by Lorin at Collider, Post by our friends at Animal Logic and sound by Nylon.

I really enjoyed this spot when I first saw it last year. Great edit by Christopher McGlynn.