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BBC Creative's Trails Will Blaze pushes practical stop-motion fire effects for the Winter Olympics 2026 campaign
Community/trade-press sweep for 2026-07-03: BBC Creative and London studio Nomint's Trails Will Blaze, a stop-motion Winter Olympics 2026 campaign directed by Yannis Konstantinidis, animated 700 individually 3D-printed athletes using 14 practical combustion techniques (steel wire, mushroom powder, iron filings) to create in-camera fire trails, set to a new Verdi Requiem arrangement recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Other sweep leads this cycle (Wildwood, Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, Aardman's Let's Go Timmy!/Danger Delilah, SMOF Stop Motion Our Fest 2026 in Buenos Aires) were checked and found already fully catalogued or not yet resolvable (SMOF's July 20-26 selections have not been announced yet) - no further action needed there this cycle.
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- Yannis Konstantinidis
- Justin Bairamian
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