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Colorful clay-mation piece showcases top female players.
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Paige Albiniak
July 1, 2025

Female football players get their turn in this fun, colorful spot for the upcoming UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 tournament in Switzerland produced by the U.K.’s Blinkink for the BBC. 

The claymation animated piece features such European women’s football stars as English right back Lucy Bronze, Welsh midfielder Jessica Fishlock, Spanish midfielder Aitana Bonmati, German goalie Ann-Katrin Berger and English forward Lauren James. Each woman gets her own claymation doppelganger and her surname spelled out in clever ways.

The short film is set to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Heads Will Roll.”

To make it, Blinkink’s artists spent seven weeks creating player models and sets out of 100 kilos of clay before undergoing a 13-day shoot. 

Played in such Swiss cities as Lucerne, Zurich, Basel and St. Gallen, the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 starts Wednesday, July 2 and runs through Sunday, July 27.

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Credits

Agency: BBC Creative

ECD: Rasmus Smith Bech

Acting ECD: Dave Monk

Head of Production: James Wood

CD: Jess Oudot, Matt Leach

Creative: Steve Lownes, Aron Sidhu

Producer: Jenny Broad

Production Manager: Sam Dobbyn

Project Manager: April Forsyth

Production Coordinator: Alfie Flynn

Senior Designer: Ronnie Law, Dan O’Mara

Static Designer: Dan Cooper, Georgina Hall

Motion Designers: Graham Joy, Daniel Betts

Retoucher: Kristina Stankeviciute-Polezajeva

Design Traffic Manager: Hattie Buxton

Production: Blinkink

Director: Nicos Livesey

EP: Bart Yates

Head of Production: Alex Halley

Producer: Rebecca Little

Production Manager: Thijme Grol

Production Coordinator: Charlie Herbert

DOP: Matthew Day

1st AC: Toby Howell, George Warren

1st AD: Sandy Liddle

Gaffer: Aldo Camilleri

Spark: Rob Collins

Moco Op: Max Halstead, Stuart Galloway

Stop Motion Animator: Steve Warne

Animator: Mark Wearing, Andy Biddle, Laura Tofarides, Honor Price

Puppet Build: Nathan Flynn

Puppet Maintenance: Joshua Flynn, Adrian Piqueras

Stop Motion Rigger: Robin Jackson

Stop Motion Rigger/Puppet Build: Andrew Spradberry

Production Designer: Gordon Allen

Art Department: Rosie Tonkin, Emma Niemis, Lulu Senft, Evelyn Hurst, Maya McAllister, Demangeat

Runner: Hannah Cooper

VFX Supervisor: Alasdair Brotherston

BTS Photographer: Joe Eckworth

Lead Compositor: Alasdair Brotherson

Compositor: Tom Fisher, Andy Hague, Luke Simpson, Simone Ghillardotti

2D FX: Reg Isaac, Hozen Britto, Chiara Sgatti, Ed Roberts, George Johnson

3D Modeler: Florent Rousseau

Previs Artist: Klaas Boeur, Alex Puig

Storyboard Artist: Joe Totti

Concept Artist: Tiago Calliari, Ryan Quickfall

Background Artist: Camille Perrin

Colorist: Andi Chu

Color Producer: Oliver Whitworth

Edit: The Picture Shop

Editor: Mark Ferns

Dubbing/Mixer: Lewis Clark

Sound Design: Sam Ashwell, 750MPH

Music: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Heads Will Roll”

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