In 2024, there was animation for just one court, but this year, there are three and the viral moments have captured the tennis world’s imagination. Viewership has increased from 246,542 in the ...

Produced in-house by Tennis Australia, video game-like recreations of live matches featuring digital player avatars have been taking over the internet.

The solution? Animated players. The tennis tournament has replaced iconic sports stars with custom avatars that mimic their movements using mocap technology and I daresay I enjoy it more than the ...

Tennis Australia created its own “skins ... The NFL, NBA and NHL also have tried this type of approach, using animation for alternate game telecasts. The 2024 debut in Melbourne “was ...

Not all of it blends in perfectly, of course. The tennis balls are much larger in the animated version. The racquets are oddly oversized and, at times, tend to move away from the players’ hands.

So, its YouTube livestream uses AI to generate Nintendo Wii Tennis cartoon avatars that mimics the action on a 2-minute delay.As a result, this animated clip of Daniel Medvedev smashing his tennis ...

drawing attention to an animated live broadcast which has been available on the tournament YouTube channel since last year’s tournament. Tennis Australia head of innovation Machar Reid said ...

Tennis Australia has turned to animation to illustrate its YouTube feed of this year’s Australian Open. Instead of the live coverage of Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz and Coco Gauff seen by ...

The world No. 1 joked that she "need[s] to know who designed my character" upon learning that her AO Animated counterpart looks different in one big way.