With the World Cup officially starting today, I’d like to point you to a new football-flavored animation. Not To Scale’s Steve Scott directed this new spot for FIFA’s 20 Centres For 2010 effort, which aims “to create 20 Football for Hope Centres to promote public health, education and football in disadvantaged communities across Africa.” It’s Flash animation mixed with live-action footage.

Using Flash and After Effects, Steve Scott from Not To Scale teamed up with illustrator Will Sweeney on this new music video for the French hip hop DJ crew Birdy Nam Nam. The track is titled The Parachute Endings, and it sounds like a warp speed production. Here’s what Scott had to say about the effort:

The sheer workload involved finishing over sixty shots, in a little over a month was a little frightening, from storyboarding, to animatics and then of course animation and compositing, with some shots containing over twenty separate elements or more, the task was daunting.

Steve Scott is a sought-after London-based animation director and illustrator. It should be mentioned that he’s also got an amazing band [cue jealousy] called Telemetry Orchestra. We’ve featured his work here before back in 2006, and he’s been putting his copy of Flash to work on a new promotional clip for the UK’s Channel 4. Scott teamed up with illustrator Will Sweeney on this piece, which announces the Nokia Green Room.

Meet Steve Scott, animation director. He’s rep’d by London-based Not To Scale, and his work is simply stunning. Have a ganders at this little Flash-animated gem – it’s the music video for a song called ‘Suburban Harmony’ by Telemetry Orchestra.

Oh, by the way, you just met Steve Scott, musician. That’s right, Mr. Scott is IN Telemetry Orchesra. That’s his band. Reminds me of the talented folks in Lemon Jelly, who also make their own Flash-animated videos.

Steve has also done some work with the design and animation shop Sixty40, who were recently profiled here at CHF, and here you can see his VH1 spot that tries to clear up the mysteries behind some Led Zeppelin lyrics.

I got in touch with Steve, who actually spent a year working at Disney, and he explained his process:

Almost all of my projects were created using Flash, but always as part of a process. I usually use Illustrator for character design, then do animation in Flash and then, at some stage, chuck everything into After Effects for further grading.