Motionographer Team
Editors
Justin Cone, Editor-in-Chief
Despite his undergraduate degree in English, Justin has been working in interactive and motion design for 10 years. While designing web applications for the University of Texas at Austin, he fell in love with motion design, setting himself on the path to eventually earn an MFA in Broadcast Design and Motion Graphics from SCAD. He founded Motionographer in 2006 on the success of its predecessor, Tween. He also co-founded F5 in April of 2009.
Michelle Higa, Assistant Editor
Michelle Higa started her career in the animation trio Mixtape Club. During that time, Mixtape Club directed videos for Yeasayer and J Dilla, and produced commercials for Google and Showtime. The team won an ADC Young Guns award, a “Best Music Video” award at SXSW, and appearances on “Best of the Year” lists for MTV2 and Pitchfork.com. Since leaving Mixtape Club, Michelle has been working on an interactive public art installation at the Sacramento Airport.
Brandon Irvine, Copy Editor
Brandon is a freelance writer, editor and ponderer but only manages to get paid for two of those. Living in Cambridge, Mass., he feels privileged to be within biking distance of an art-house theater chain, an independent repertory one-screen joint, and a university film archive.
You can read his take downs and talk ups of films at underplex.com.
Matt Lambert, Editor-at-Large
Matt is a Berlin/London-based director and artist who has also spent years living and working in LA and NYC. He also acts as head of video for East-London-based art collective, Bare Bones.
Aside from his personal work, he spends time acting as a curator for various film, art and design festivals and speaks at conferences and universities about his own work and current industry trends. He is currently teaching at Hyper Island.
Operations
Brandon Lori, Author and Head of Internal Development
Brandon is a designer and animator based in New York City. His skill-set encompasses both technical and traditional art skills, balancing his knowledge of computer animation with a personal sketchbook where he draws regularly. In addition to his professional work, Brandon heads the internal development of Motionographer and in the future, hopes to teach.
Brandon’s Motionographer Posts
Authors
Babe Elliott Baker
Babe is an Director, Designer, Illustrator from Las Vegas, with a self-taught multidisciplinary background in digital & fine art, design, motion, music and dance. Babe dropped out of high-school to jump start his career early in illustration, which led him to design for web, print and branding, and then eventually into motion graphics for dvd and broadcast. His well-rounded experience in advertising for film & entertainment, broadcast, and corporate industry give him an unconventional approach and style, developing fresh creative solutions for clients such as Showtime, ABC, HBO, Disney, Sony, National Geographic, Universal, Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, HGTV, AXN, Animax, Food Network, Spike TV, MTV, Speed TV, International Paper, Honeywell, and Barclays.
Marcos “Boca” Ceravolo
Coming out of São Paulo, Brazil, Boca Ceravolo travelled the world designing and animating before settling down as Partner / Head of Design of São Paulo based creative powerhouse CONSULADO.
Daniel Coutinho
Brazilian Designer/Animator graduated in 2007, currently extending studies at UCLA.
Lilian Darmono
Lilian is an Animation Art Director and Illustrator, who was born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia. Over the last two decades she has lived in Singapore, then Melbourne, Sydney, and London. She frequently works as part of a duo with her partner Mungo Horey under the name ‘SELF’, making adorable yet quirky characters and environments for both motion and ‘static’ pieces. She is obsessed with good food, travelling, podcasts, journalism, cats, and currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Jorge R. Canedo Estrada
Born and raised in Bolivia, Jorge R. Canedo Estrada (“Jr.canest”, a lover of music and art; someone who is dependant on God’s grace) was self-taught in the design world until the age of 17, when he won a full scholarship to Vancouver Film School and graduated from their Digital Design program.
He has won awards and international recognition; he believes in audio-driven animation; and he will spend hours creating the perfect curve of animation.
Jon Gorman
Melbourne, Australia native and New York based, Jon is an Art Director, Designer and Animator with Buck.
Brian Gossett
posts • website • twitter • blog
Brian Michael Gossett lives with his wife Ashley, and dogs Max & Molly, in sunny Santa Monica’s Ocean Park. When they aren’t working they find themselves exploring the world, absorbing culture, art, and nature. These adventures come through in his colorful and multi-cultural inspired art and design. He’s been involved in a wide variety of projects, both small and large, over the past 10 years. When he’s not making stuff for clients for for himself, he keeps busy writing for blogs such as this and Yes Yes Y’all, while also curating his own personal music blog, and occasionally teaching a class at the Art Center College of Art and Design.
Yotam Hadar
Yotam is a freelance graphic designer currently based in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Graduated in 2006 from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. His interests include typography, cats, branding, pizza, technology, art, internet memes and hummus. His work appeared in dozens of publications worldwide, and won several international awards, including a Cube from the Art Directors Club in New York. Yotam taught and teaches design at several leading design school in Israel.
Greg Herman
Greg is a freelance director and designer who takes his influences from his backgrounds in VFX, motion design, music, and photography.
He currently lives in Black Mountain, NC and draws inspiration for his mountainous surroundings.
Matt Hunter Ross
Lauren Indovina
Lauren is a Director and Designer at PSYOP NY.
Stephen Kelleher
Stephen Kelleher is a New York-based freelance designer and illustrator who has been working in the field of motion design since 2003.
Fabricio Lima
Fabricio Lima is a designer/director from São Paulo – Brazil. After 11 years working with great studios around the world and living in many different countries, his free time is usually filled with illustrations, filmmaking and traveling (despite his intense fear of flights).
Simon Robson
Simon is best known for his direction of issue film, or issue animation if you will. Too many evenings spent listening to the declarations of his pal, Barry McNamara, lead to the conception of multi-award winning shirt film, ‘What Barry Says’. The film is a response to the US invasion of Iraq and elucidates McNamara’s outspoken views on what he calls ‘War Corporatism’. Quickly championed by the motion community, conspiracy nuts and the worldwide public alike, it blazed a trail across the world wide web and the film festival circuit in 2004 and 2005. Simon has, as yet avoided assassination despite receiving direct threats from the marine corps.
2006, a new year a new issue film, this time in the shape of a feature documentary entitled ‘Taking Liberties’ conceived and directed by Chris Atkins. Chris invited Simon to direct animation for his film, which addresses the decline of Civil Liberties in the UK since 1997. Taking Liberties showed in theatres across the UK in the Summer of 2007 and went on to be nominated for a BAFTA in 2008.
When not trying to put the world to rights, Simon finds time to direct commercial projects with Nexus Productions. Simon’s commercial work includes graphic idents for Nike and Seeds of Change as well as a 60 second promotional spot for Adidas featuring the world’s best footballers. Most recently he has directed commercials for Save The Children, The Observer and The Guardian.
Simon is currently developing his new project ‘Coalition of The Willing’ with philosopher and writer Tim Rayner. They are now at the helm of the evolving project, bringing together artists from around the world to create a film and an online event that proposes a pro-active response to the climate crises. If you are a brilliant moving image maker and want to get involved, drop Simon a mail at simon@knife-party.net.
Ryan Rothermel
Flying the flannel in sunny Portland Oregon, Ryan runs his small studio Decoy in the heart of the Northwest.
Jake Sargeant
Igor Sordokhonov
Originally from the deepest parts of Siberia, Igor is now located in Moscow, working as a freelance designer/animator.
Mate Steinforth
Mate Steinforth (born 1977 in Hannover, Germany) is a director and designer based in New York City. In his teen years he became active in the computer art subculture called Demoscene and eventually began working as a graphic artists for computer games. He studied graphic design at University of Applied Arts Hildesheim and the University of Madrid, Facultad de Bellas Artes.
In 2002, he moved to Madrid to work as an Art Director in the graphic studio Juan Dela Mata. From 2004 on he worked as a freelance motion designer/director for several companies in Berlin and Munich. In 2006, he started to work for the New York based production company PSYOP.
Next to his professional work he always tries to spend time on collaborative projects, directing and animating short clips.
Mate’s Motionographer Posts
Mate’s website
Harm van Zon
Harm graduated in 2004 at the St. Joost (art academy) in Breda, Netherlands. His graduation film ‘BLOX’ won several prizes, including prize for best student film at the Dutch Film Festival.
After school, he worked as a freelancer for two years with several directors, including Peter Greenaway. In 2006, he was the first addition to the Onesize team, where he still works as an all-round 3D artist. He spends his free time with music (playing and listening), beer drinking and movie watching.
James Wignall
Fresh Prince Edition:
United Kingdom born and raised
Design and direction is how I spend most of my days
Cutting out, matte-ing, resizing, all tools
And all comping some green screen using keylight rules
With See No Evil I try to do good
Giving something back to my neighborhood
I got one little website to showcase my work there
I’m a Young Guns winner with a balding head of hair
David Wilson
David Wilson is a London-based music video director.
David first started getting recognition for his work with his music video for Moray McLaren’s “We Got Time” and has since developed his music video directorial skills in ever-shifting ways; for artists such as Metronomy, Keaton Henson, Little Boots and Japanese Popstars.
In 2009 he picked up the much coveted title of “Best New Director” at the UK Music Video Awards.
Tyquane Wright
Tyquane is a vfx technical director at Sony Imageworks. He has a background in motion design, painting, photography, and art history.
