Creative Director:
Leo Warner
Designers:
Lysander Ashton
Mark Grimmer
Associate Designer:
Jonathon Lyle
Animation Directors:
Zsolt Balogh
Christian Debney
Lawrence Watson
Animators:
Quentin Dachy
Derrick Ligas
M.I.E. Ltd
Editor:
Joseph Pierce
Assistant Designers:
Akhila Krishnan
Jessika Strataki
Live-action director:
Aneil Karia
Directors of Photography:
Chloe Thomson
Vanessa Whyte
Stuart Bentley
Live-action art director:
Molly Einchomb
Production Assistant:
Katie Jackson
Technical manager: Jonathon Lyle
Programmers: Nick Simmons, Ben Pearcy
Data wrangler: James Long
Project manager: Remi Harris
Assistant to Leo Warner: Megan Kearney
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The commemorative DVD of the 2012 Olympic Games also includes an extensive special feature produced by 59. Read more about it here.
The Olympic Stadium, Stratford, July 27th 2012
59 Productions were invited by artistic director Danny Boyle to join his creative team as video designers for the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony.
Led by project Creative Director Leo Warner, the 59 team provided design, animation and film production services, as well as programmers and technical design services for the largest show on Earth. The team's primary role was to art direct all video content delivered the Olympic Stadium. This included the four massive LED screens mounted on the stadium roof, all projection in the show, and the "audience pixels" - a vast, stadium-wide video surface comprising a custom-built 9-pixel LED panel mounted between every one of the 70,000 seats*.
Much of the content produced for the ceremony by 59 was also delivered direct to broadcast, including the 60-second countdown to the start of the ceremony, a series of live-action title cards, and a number of graphic and typographic elements and overlays.
* All video content for the "audience pixels" for the Olympic Opening Ceremony was art directed by 59 Productions and produced by Crystal CG.