2131 Anniversary Ceremony: Flashback Graphics

Client: Baltimore Orioles

Art Director: Joel Dale

Game Presentation: Garrett Glatz, Emma Meck, Nick Ullian, Garret Young

Videographers: Jarred Belman, Greg St. Clair, Johnny Douglas, Madison Mueller, Nicole Reighter, Luke Ruhl, Bailey White

Photographers: Todd Olszewski, Peyton Stoike

Oriole Park @ Camden Yards

Baltimore, MD

Art Direction +

2D Design + Animation

2025

For the 30th anniversary of Cal Ripken, Jr.'s 2,131st consecutive play streak, I designed and animated graphics for the Baltimore Orioles' pre-game celebration, taking our fans back to historic Camden Yards in 1995. As the team's staff motion designer, this required archival research, compiling footage of the night of the streak, and recreating those designs for a modern show. Thanks to coordination with an incredible Creative and Game Presentation team, this gave the ceremony celebrating Cal an appearance that resonated with fans that were present for the game 30 years ago, and current day Orioles fans.

It was an interesting challenge to recreate graphics from archives, and then age it to match how the jumbotron appeared over three decades ago. This was done through a combination of using old footage as texture and modern After Effects techniques.

This was the last opportunity to explore this concept as the jumbotron in Camden Yards would go through a significant overhaul in the following offseason, going from two screens to one.