[Tim Britton]: Inside MLB Network’s hilarious postseason ads and the English animator behind them
It was when Nick Murray-Willis was in a luxury box at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, sitting next to the family of Harry Kane while watching the animated video he had made for Kane on the stadium videoboard, that he had to pinch himself. “There’s just moments like that where you’re like, ‘I don’t quite know how I ended up here,’” Murray-Willis said. You may not know Murray-Willis, but if you’re watching baseball’s postseason, you’re familiar with his work. He’s the man behind MLB Network’s “Context matters” ads this postseason — 30-second spots that take famous broadcast calls and animate them out
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