Dakar 2022 Results

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After Stats
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Every new start of the year brings one of the toughest challenge on earth - Dakar Rally. Held in Saudi Arabia, it touches everyone worldwide - from young guns to elderly. As a Dakar fan, I rolled up the sleeves myself and made dynamic, data-driven results showcase for a whole event. Below is a bit of a glance view what it is. To mention a most important one - its a completely custom and native AE solution for After Stats. Data in - video out. As complex as it is, as simple as it sounds.

project's info

Client:
After Stats
Role:
Services Provided:
Tools Used:
Adobe After Effects
Extendscript Toolkit
Year:

Every new start of the year brings one of the toughest challenge on earth - Dakar Rally. Held in Saudi Arabia, it touches everyone worldwide - from young guns to elderly. As a Dakar fan, I rolled up the sleeves myself and made dynamic, data-driven results showcase for a whole event. Below is a bit of a glance view what it is. To mention a most important one - its a completely custom and native AE solution for After Stats. Data in - video out. As complex as it is, as simple as it sounds.

Data-Driven, Automated...What?

By now you already have seen these words quite a few times. Yet, what it actually means? In simple terms:

  • Retrieval of statistical information X, in this case - results of the Dakar Daily Special Stages;
  • Processing X to have a meaningful set of data Y - extract relevant information from results;
  • Processing Y with a program to build design Z - interpreting the data into visuals;
  • Generating N social media output files.

Its an X-Y-Z process, which leads to finished output files. Eventually it allows to take strings and numbers from text file and build dynamic videos, which adapts based on those tiny bits of information. Thats as easy as it is, yet as complex as it might can get. More information to come!