Media Basket

About the project

The opening film for the fourth season of Media Basket, Russia's first media basketball league. The goal was to capture the raw energy, rhythm and anticipation of the game before the first shot. The film was screened at Luzhniki Arena, one of the ten largest arenas in Europe. The visual language combines three approaches — realistic 3D, toon shading and frame-by-frame animation — for an emotionally charged style in the spirit of “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”.

What I did

• 01Locations: helped build the arena and environment in realistic 3D — a muted base with accents in the brand colors.
• 02Characters: designed and built the players from scratch — from concept to final models, stylized in the spirit of NFS Unbound.
• 03Toon shading: built a shader system for cartoon stylization on top of the realistic base.