WNBA court lines: highlight sweep
Approval render of the WNBA court-line animation after the switch from draw-in to a highlight sweep. After Effects pre-render.
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State Farm WNBA All-Star 3-Point Challenge
Interactive court and LED wall graphics for the State Farm WNBA All-Star 3-Point Challenge: new game states, court animations and a celebrity roster built into the Rive system from the NBA All-Star contest.
Client: State FarmThrough: WunderBeast
Wunder Beast / State Farm / 2026
Same court system, a new league.
The interactive court and LED wall graphics for the State Farm WNBA All-Star 3-Point Challenge, rebuilt from my NBA All-Star system for a new game format and new screens.
My role: Motion design, Rive animation and live-event support
Delivered: New game states and court animations, pre-rendered for approval in After Effects and then built into the Rive file that ran the wall and the court floor, with handoff docs and on-call fixes through the contest
Tools: Rive (state machines, ViewModels, Luau scripting), After Effects, Adobe Illustrator
The brief
After the NBA All-Star Three-Point Contest, Wunder Beast brought me back for the WNBA All-Star version of the State Farm challenge. The new round needed a one-ball game format, a State Farm logo-shot animation, four end states, a "heating up" effect and the WNBA three-point line on the court graphics.
The build
I designed the new states first as pre-rendered After Effects variants: court lines, the station pulses, the heating-up line and the logo shot. After review I replaced the draw-in court lines with a highlight sweep and cut down the pulse cycles. Once the animations were approved I built them into Rive, restructured the state machines with the development team and resized everything for the new screens: a 5760 x 1920 wall and a 3200 x 3200 court floor. The player cards switch automatically between regular players and celebrities, and the final celebrity roster and headshots went in a week before the event.
The constraint
The roster kept changing up to the contest itself. Players were added and swapped in the last two days, so card fit, name binding and photos had to be fixed and pushed to production during live-event support, the last fixes on the morning of the contest.
The delivered experience
The final Rive file ran the wall and the court for the contest on July 25, 2026. The approval renders and the event-day file are in the project archive.
Project media
Heating-up line
Approval render of the heating-up line animation (R2).
Station pulse (v4.4)
Approval render of the shooting-station pulse, final R2 iteration.
Shooting stations: regular game
Approval render of the station animations for the regular game.
Shooting stations: State Farm logo shot
Approval render of the State Farm logo-shot station animation.
Event recap (video: State Farm, Instagram)
State Farm's recap of the 3-Point Contest at WNBA Live, posted on their Instagram (@statefarm): the court floor and wall system in use. Video by State Farm.
WNBA court and wall system (Rive, v23)
Event-day Rive file for the wall and court floor.
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