What is Tactics Animator?

Tactics Animator is a unique web product specially designed for sport journalists and commentators. The application allows them to recreate a scene from a football match by means of adding players, ball and other objects onto a 2D field and animating them. Enhanced with graphics and commentaries it is published on the web magazine or newspaper for users to play the animation and receive an illustrated analysis of the event. The current version of the TA is developed for football, however it can be adapted for other sports like American Football or Rugby.

The Scheme Editor allows the client to create their own schemes or recreate a situation from a real match. It has the following tools for this purpose:

• Single players and 11-player teams of three different but most frequent formations to be drag-and-dropped onto the field
• Lines and arrows of different types to be drawn on the field to show movements of the player, the ball, player with the ball, distance
• Highlight and commentary box/circle to be drawn on the field and filled with texts
• For training sessions, as an option, there is a set of objects to be normally used in training sessions
• Facilities for animating players/ball, including run, jump, shot and header
• Option to add pauses to the animated scheme and provide text commentaries to appear in the scheme during the pauses
• Show/hide players’ names/numbers, including the option to show key players’ names at certain moments of the animation

• Change players/objects’ properties including players kit colours, skin and hair colour, colour and size of fonts, boxes, lines.

Tactics Animator has the following indisputable advantages:

• Quick and easy way of animating schemes allows creating a close to reality motion picture with up to 22 players moving around and recreating a real match situation
• Simple and easy to use. Quick tool to create and edit schemes at any time
• Has pre-modeled players and objects
• Has a choice of football fields (left half, right half and full)
• Instant placing of the entire teams of preset formations on the field
• Facility to quickly set and change properties of players and objects
• Facility to add graphics, highlight areas and textual commentaries
• Easy to access, store and manage schemes
• Simple way for the end user to view and review the schemes on the customer’s site

How does it work?

Tactics Animator is a complex web based application that consists of three parts: Scheme Editor, Administration System and Scheme Player.

The Scheme Editor and the Admin System are located on SportFlashback server. The customer is given an access to them for a certain period of time or fixed amount of schemes according to the license terms. Via the admin system they will be able to create and edit their schemes with the help of the Editor and copy and store them in various folders in the admin system.

The Scheme Player is a piece of software created on Flash technology. The player should be embedded in the web pages of a client’s site. The look & feel of the player’s interface may be adapted to the web-site style guidelines.

A ready scheme may be downloaded in the form of XML file and linked to the Scheme Player. Then the scheme is available for all the end-users to watch.

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Full description of Tactics Animator (PDF)

Create and Animate Your Own

You can try and create and animate your own schemes with the Tactics Animator. Download the full description, read the instructions and use access details at the top of the document. You can view the already existing schemes, edit them, create your own folder in the admin system, create, animate, view and save your own scheme. Then you can send us your order.

VRs With Tactics Animator

Now it is possible to upload Virtual Replays from real matches, produced by SportFlashback VR creator team, into the Tactics Animator, edit them, add graphics, extra animations and other features and demonstrate tactic analyses of real episodes with the animator off the site. You can see more Virtual Replays on Football Tactics Animator Player

VRs With Tactics Animator in 3D

The next step of the development of the Tactics Animator by SportFlashback has been realised in 3D Virtual Replays Viewer. It allows demonstrating tactic analyses of real match episodes with the new facility to rotate the pitch 360 degrees and view the scene from any angle, retaining the facility to pan and zoom. You can view and enjoy animated 3D visualisations with the 3D FTA Viewer.