Teleclub Sport

When Mediatec Dream Team produced graphics for TV channel Teleclub Sport, they contacted edithouse to help them out with design and animation. The graphics would be used for the live football broadcasts of the Swiss Super League, the largest league in Switzerland.

Mediatec has developed a graphics system for television, Gaudi, which consists of two parts: a graphics engine and a steering platform. With the steering platform, the press of single-button presents the player’s name, position in the match and so on. What distinguishes their system from others is the support for 3D layers, which makes it ideal for using advanced graphics live.

“We started with developing a design that worked well with Teleclub’s own profile, “says Andreas Jonason, 3D graphics designer at edithouse. “Both animated and fixed elements had to be produced and we tested them in MediaTec’s Gaudi to ensure that they worked as intended. After Teleclub approved the tests we started to produce. ”

Each plate consisted of a variety of elements that Mediatec then assembled in their editor based on the edithouse design. In order to maintain interactivity, so that the names of players, teams, reporters and match status could be modified live, all the animations had to be done twice: first by Andreas as reference, and then in Mediatec’s Gaudi.
“There were hundreds of different plates and tables, which all followed specific templates. Luckily we were able to produce several elements that we could re-use. All in all, there was about 9 different groups, or types of signs, such as nameplates, clock, tables, backgrounds and so on.”