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ATA Football

Titles design and animation work for Gravity Media. First launched in September 2020, ATA football is an American over-the-top sports streaming service. The service carries live and on-demand streaming of women's soccer events from various countries. (This was not the final audio. It's just a track I used to help build the edit.)

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The National Lottery ‘Lotto’

Freelance work at The Mill. Storyboard and test animation for The National Lottery's Lotto draw.

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On My Screen - Twickenham Stadium Screen Graphics

Quick snapshot of a stadium screen animation I was working on at the start of the year at Gravity Media, which formed one small part of a huge delivery enabling the stadium operator to display a plethora of team and game information.

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On My Screen - Chelsea TV

I've been terrible at updating my website and showreel but I have been busy freelancing at The Mill, Red Bee and Input Media (now known as Gravity Media) over the last couple of years. It was through the graphics department at Gravity that I got in with Chelsea TV and this is something I worked on one afternoon at the end of last season, in the build-up to the Europa League Final. I've started taking quick end-of play iphone videos to show my kids what I've been up to when I get home, if they're interested! I've realised that shooting them off my screen like this makes it easier for people to understand my part in the production - that it's been built on a computer. It also suits this kind of quick or piecemeal work that wouldn't necessarily make it on to a showreel. So, I'll post these up for now while I think about updating my website!

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I have worked with Nick on numerous projects and have always found him a highly reliable and creatively dependable artist. Whether it is working with fellow designers, directors or other creative departments; Nick brings ideas and solutions to make projects run smoother and ultimately guarantee delivery of the highest quality. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend, and hope to work with him again in the future.

Liam Collinwood, Operations Manager at The Mill

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British Heart Foundation - ‘Thank You’

Freelance After Effects animation at The Mill

CREDITS: Production: HLA Director: Simon Ratigan Producer: Richard Skepper Director of Photography: Ian Murray Creative Director: Grant Berry Art Director: Ross Urien 2D Lead Artist: Andrew ‘Barnsley’ Wood 2D Artist: Jeanette Eiternes Animation: Davide Frusteri, Freya Barnsley, Nick Maroussas, Jakub Skorupa Motion Graphics: Davide Frusteri, Freya Barnsley, Nick Maroussas, Jakub Skorupa

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We've been fortunate to work with Nick on a good number of projects over the years. He's always taken a different direction on the brief, which our clients both internal and external fully appreciate. He has the ability to run projects from scratch or jump in when we're getting hectic and we have complete faith that both creatively and technically he'll always deliver.

Paul Hanson, Creative Director at Input Media

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‘Monster’ Title Sequence

CREDITS: Production: Mill+ Director: Adam Parry Executive Producer: Alex Finch Producer: Claire Howse VFX Creative: The Mill Creative Director: Adam Parry Art Director: Grant Berry 2D Artists: Nick Maroussas & Adam Parry Matte Painting: Jiyoung Lee, German Casado, Aurelien Ronceray, Grant Berry, Ross Urien Flash Animation: Freya Barnsley, Kwok Fung Lam, Matt Partridge, Thea Glad After Effects Animation: Nick Maroussas, Adam Parry Colour: The Mill Colourist: Oisin O'Driscoll

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Caught up with an old work colleague freelancing at Chelsea TV before Christmas. Lots of quick turnaround projects so nothing to show off too much about but I enjoyed this one. Follow the link above to the Chelsea TV Facebook page. I spent an afternoon giving the piece a New York, Hip-Hop style vibe including some tags and grimey grade.

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BBC WSL Titles

One fact stuck in my head the other night watching a Basquiat documentary: Back in the 70’s, New York was full of artists who wanted to try everything; they painted, sculpted, wrote poetry, played in bands. They wanted to be polymaths. I’m sensing this is becoming the modern way too, with graduates relying on their wits to jump from one career path to another, applying and learning different skills along the way. One place I’m lucky enough to experience something vaguely resembling this variety is at Input Media in West London and the ‘BBC Women’s Football’ job I did for them recently is a perfect example. Input’s Creative Director, Paul Hanson, had already developed a treatment for the titles, loosely inspired by the 'American Gods' sequence, but to help ease his busy schedule he asked me to direct the shoot. It was just a one day shoot in the Great Hall at Wembley stadium, to coincide with a big media event marking the start of the season, but luckily, we were able to get in the previous evening to do most of our setting up. The shoot was pretty straightforward and mainly involved challenging the girls to run around the lights without knocking them over.

The following week, while Paul edited the title sequence, I was tasked with designing the studio background graphic. I built an abstract design using broken panels of a 3D ball and the pinky/purple brand colours. The hi-res graphic is printed on 6mm perspex and then backlit in the studio at Input Media.

Finally, Premiership Rugby wanted to bring some unity to all their clubs' stadium screen graphics and asked Input to pitch some ideas. I think Paul was looking for something a bit different from their in-house style, so he asked me to work on it.

OK, so it's not exactly painting, poetry and rock bands but I don't suppose you become a polymath overnight.

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Star Sixes

Design and animation for the Star Sixes titles for Input Media. The tournament was staged at the O2 arena and broadcast on Sky Sports 1.

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IG Trading App Commercial

Freelance design, compositing and animation for Munky who have now become the VFX department at Technicolor. I represented Munky during the shoot to advise on post production issues and led a small team of animators including Luke Carpenter to produce a series of idents highighting the features of the IG trading app. Maria Manton was producer on the project.

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Working fairly consistently at The Mill these days, well, since early 2016 actually. Such a cool place to be, with a very inspiring bunch of people.

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I’ve been freelancing at The Mill a lot this year. Here’s a nice job for The Guardian that I was involved in, animating the graphics. Creative direction by Carl Addy. Illustrations designed by Charles Bigeast.

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DFS Winter Sale

I was at Krow Communications before Christmas, working with producer Veronica Saez on the DFS 'Winter Sale' website animation. We had to co-ordinate with The Mill who were creating the 30 second TV ad so I referenced certain elements that they'd started to develop. Most of what you see though, such as the glass globe, was built from scratch because our delivery date fell before theirs. Clicking on the masthead expands the screen which then loops until you click again to shake the snow globe and set off the full sequence. On the real website, this ended in a carousel of sofa choices to view.

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Animate a hue/saturation effect in AE over a set of individual gradients and they all react slightly differently. I was asked to design a quick treatment for a World Health Organsiation (WHO) film recently so I developed this background which could be used in different ways uniting a mix of vt, text and graphics. Super simple but I thought it had a certain hypnotising charm.

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FA Cup 2015 Opening Titles for Input Media proposal. "A collage of inspirational FA Cup moments play out upon 3D shirts flooded with club-coloured shards."