The conversation could have been about tools, pipelines, or AI. Instead it kept returning to something older and harder to automate: the compulsion to make. Tim Thompson talks with director Onur Senturk at OFFF Barcelona 2026.
At the Beacon Theatre, with every phone sealed shut, Madonna premiered Confessions II and reminded us of a forty-year truth: she has never simply released music. She has released visual worlds. A love letter to the greatest Motion Designer who never touched the software.
Filmmaker Hao Wu worked in Silicon Valley before turning the camera on the industry he helped build. With TikTok Never Dies, premiering at the 2026 Tribeca Festival, he asks a question that lands hard for anyone who creates online: what does it mean to build your work, your audience, and your livelihood on a platform you do not own?
At the 2026 Tribeca Festival, Paul Rudd sat down with Seth Meyers for a conversation about instinct, taste, and the courage to stay curious across 30-plus years on screen. What Rudd’s choices, from Marvel to Mac and Me, teach anyone who makes work between commerce and expression.
Motionographer was at the 2026 Tribeca Festival, in the room for Madonna’s Confessions II, Whoopi Goldberg’s world of animation, Tribeca X with David Droga, and Paul Rudd in conversation with Seth Meyers. This is the beginning of our Tribeca coverage, where image, motion, design, story, sound, and culture meet.
As The Motion Awards X enters the final week of general submissions, Motionographer is dedicating June to the artists, studios, directors, designers, animators, sound designers, producers, students, and creative teams shaping the language of Motion Design today.
General submissions close June 16. After that, late entry rates begin.
Teams still gathering credits, case studies, final links, or project details can confirm their entry now, secure the current entry rate, and return to refine the remaining information before judging begins.
After years of reading other people’s scripts, the Turkish filmmaker stopped waiting for permission, taught himself 3D animation, and finished a CG feature from his apartment in Istanbul.
For Mental Health Awareness Month, I wrote about the inner life of creative people. About spirituality without performance, the missing room, and the practice of not abandoning ourselves when suffering arrives.
How Latvian animation studio, Panic, transcended their geography and became a leading player in the industry!
