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Dallas Mavs Are Making Fan Messages Fun and Interactive with Apple’s iMessage and Giphy

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Dallas Mavericks Are Making Fan Messages Fun and Interactive with Apple’s iMessage and Giphy

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The Dallas Mavericks tapped Groove Jones to put our animation skills to work to create dozens of animated avatars of their players. By creating animated iMessage stickers, the Mavs give fans a fun and bespoke way of interacting with the team.

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The team integrated the animated stickers into the official Dallas Mavericks App. Once a fan downloads the Mavs App, they automatically get installed as part of the iMessage app. 

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Fans can then collaborate with others in a conversation, decorate messages with stickers, and more – without leaving Messages.

The Players

We animated the players by taking a static single frame illustration and then hand-illustrated individual frames to create some of the effects.

Below is an overview of the different animations of each player that we created.

Kristaps Porziņģis #6

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Luka Dončić #77

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Josh Richardson #0

Josh Richardson gif

Boban Marjanović #51

Boban Marjanović gif       

Cauley-Stein #33

Cauley-Stein gif

Maxi Kleber #42

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Tim Hardaway Jr. #11

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Nicolo Melli #44

Nicolo Melli gif

JJ Redick #44

JJ Redick gif

 

Dorian Finney-Smith #10

Dorian Finney-Smith gif

Dwight Powel #7

Dwight Powel gif    

Jalen Brunson #13

Jalen Brunson gif

Bernard James #16

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Not Just Apple iMessage Stickers

Not only was the release of the animations on iMessages, but the animations were released on the Dallas Mavericks own Mavs.com Giff page, the Mavs Instagram account, and their Giffy.com page for fans to get access to them.

  Dallas Mavs Instagram

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Dallas Mavs site – https://www.mavs.com/gifs/

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The Dallas Mavs Giphy page https://giphy.com/dallasmavs has had over 200 million views – more power to the GIF!

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Download the Mavs official App – https://www.mavs.com/app/

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