Yearly Archives: 2008

Stéphane Manel for Chromeo

Chromeo’s New Video from Stéphane Manel

Many interesting moments in Studio Dialog’s 2008 reel

Many interesting moments in Studio Dialog’s 2008 reel

Freelancing 101: Understanding Holds

In this first installment of Freelancing 101, David Schwarz of Brooklyn-based Hush (Motionographer posts) explains how “holds” work: A “hold” means an employer has the… Read more

Native Support for RED in After Effects and Premiere

RED’s been working on a plugin for After Effects and Premiere that will allow uses to natively open R3D files, and it should be available… Read more

Gareso: MTV Birds

(If that version is slow, try the Motionographer mirror.) Although he’s from Brazil, Gabriel Souza (a.k.a Gareso) is earning his Diploma of Motion Graphics and… Read more

New Title Sequences at Forget the film…

Forget the film, watch the titles has posted up two new title sequences: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and The Teeth Of The… Read more

I Can See You, You Can See Me is the latest animated music video directed by Eric Lerner for Rex The Dog

I Can See You, You Can See Me is the latest animated music video directed by Eric Lerner for Rex The Dog

Sixty40 look Smart for Kmart

A couple of weeks ago, back in the dark days of Motionographer 1.0 we posted Sydney based Sixty40’s showreel as a quickie. In amongst their… Read more

GOOD Magazine’s Visual Essay: Oil Addiction

GOOD Magazine’s Visual Essay: Oil Addiction

Billy Ray Shyster’s House of Discount Special Effects

Billy Ray Shyster’s House of Discount Special Effects, circa 1997 (Thanks to Lloyd for the blast from the past.)

Tom & Mark: “Muffin Man”

Tom and Mark (Nexus Productions) have outdone themselves with “Muffin Man,” a new spot for the recently rebranded Royal Bank of Canada. Although the spot… Read more

Some tasty new work in Lo Iacono’s updated reel

Some tasty new work in Lo Iacono’s updated reel

fxguide Goes Deeper with Dave Rand

For a new fxpodcast series focusing on labor rights for FX artists, fxguide interviewed Dave Rand, who’s leading the charge of artists hoping to get… Read more

Zombie Zombie fan video starring GI Joe from Simon Gesrel and Xavier Ehretsmann

Zombie Zombie fan video starring GI Joe from Simon Gesrel and Xavier Ehretsmann (via synthtopia)

Hershey’s Delicious Chocolate Animation by Aardman (Via Ventilate)

Hershey’s Delicious Chocolate Animation by Aardman (Via Ventilate)

Official Harry Potter Trailer Finally Online

Official Harry Potter And the Half-Blood Prince trailer finally online (Thanks, Lu!)

Something different over at Fontmess

Something different over at Fontmess

60th Primetime Emmy Nominees for Main Title Design

The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards are coming up on September 21st, and it looks like there will be some decent competition among the nominees for… Read more

Chris Milk Gets Dark and Poetic for Gnarls Barkley

Chris Milk Gets Dark and Poetic for Gnarls Barkley (via Feed)

IGolf Volkswagen

Fun project for Volkswagen from INOCUO TheSign in Spain. I dig the weird Snoop Dogg with trumpets audio too! (Thanks Hugo)

Motion Graphics Creators meeting at SIGGRAPH in LA

Motion Graphics Creators meeting at SIGGRAPH in LA on August 12th. For Free Expo passes, email Ko Maruyama.

Old School Comments Are Back

You guys were right, and I was wrong: Old school comments are better than my fancy forum-post-as-comment idea, so I decided to swallow my pride… Read more

La ballade sauvage

Gobelins students Cyril Drouin, May Nguyen, Gabriel Jollymonge, Elen Le Tannou and Marion Stinghe crafted “La ballade sauvage,” a beautiful mini-narrative opener for the International… Read more

Extended deadline for Le:60 Film Fest

Le:60 has extended it’s deadline. Entries must now be postmarked/uploaded by August 15th, 2008.