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November 18, 2011 Light, a short film directed by David Parker, gives new meaning to the term “volumetric lighting.” Comments
Check out this wonderful piece of animation by Giant Ant (co-direction by Jr.canest) talking about hope, health and welfare. November 17, 2011
November 16, 2011 Check out the portfolio of the very talented designer Kenesha Sneed, who will be going freelance soon after working at Psyop LA.
November 15, 2011
November 14, 2011 November 11, 2011 November 10, 2011 Europeans! People within convenient travelling distance to Barcelona! Don’t miss out on Broad.cat 2011, a 2-day design conference at Imagina Auditorium. Highlights include a video conference with Pablo Ferro, directly from L.A. November 9, 2011
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Motionographer is currently #2 on blogrank’s Top 25 Filmmaking Blogs. Check out the ranking criteria. Good on us!

Created for (and rejected by) MTV Movie Awards. This slice of genius was made by LA duo Fatal Farm (who also animated the recent Major Lazer video). MTV *NEEDS* stuff like this!
Sifon DG updates to shows off some great new boards and motion.
Cast your votes for the Bitfilm Festival 09 winners
Excellent tips and insights in Beyond The Screens: How to Turn Everything Into Interactive Media from Frog Design’s Umyot Boonmarlart
Nexus Productions’ directing duo Fx and Mat put their powers to use for the International Olympic Committee and agency Coler & Weber United in “All Together Now,” a beautifully rendered tale of titanic Olympians literally pulling the earth’s geography together into a neo-Pangea.
Like their work for the Royal Bank of Canada (through Parisian prodco Mr. Hyde), “All Together Now” uses soft lighting and a rich palette to evoke a sunny, feel-good vibe reminiscent of Art Deco’s happier imagery. The contours of the characters remind me of Tamara de Lempicka‘s hefty but friendly human forms—just without all the sitting around and pouting.
Back in July, I scribbled out a diatribe against Mass Animation, a Facebook-supported competition to create a CG short film by crowd-sourcing the animation to thousands of animators around the world. (See trailer above.)
While most of the Motionographer regulars agreed with my points against Mass Animation, not everyone felt that spec-work competitions like Mass Animation are a bad thing.
To help flesh out the other side of the story, we got in touch with Alexander Micah Snow, Mass Animation participant and then animation student at the Savannah College of Art and Design. We edited his response for length, but left it otherwise in tact.
Let’s keep the conversation going in the comments.
Read Alexander Snow’s guest rebuttal…