An Interview with nailgun*
MOV nailgun*’s latest reel JPG Pitch boards for the Academy Awards PDF The process behind the Benjamin Franklin spot for Spike TV’s Men of Action…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Soul Royale: Umlala’s “My Pdf Files”
Tron cat + bionic steampunk instruments + a chorus that asks “How do you convert PDF to JPG?” = this video for Israeli indie band…
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Yotam Hadar • 13 years ago
Contest alert: 3×3 is accepting animation entries until March 2 (PDF)
Contest alert: 3×3 is accepting animation entries until March 2 (PDF)
Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Interview: Lobo Does Dupont
A series of mood boards (PDF) The whole set of mood boards in one go Animatic, showing influences from Maeda and Vasarely (QT 6) An…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Perception: More Than Meets the Eye
One of Perception’s early concepts Playing with 3D space Another early concept using scale to create visual interest Animation test, experimenting with pacing and camera…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
TELEPHONEME by MK12
MK12 has just released another in-house project, a short film called TELEPHONEME. It brings the idea of “language working as a double-agent, carrying a hidden…
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Daniel Coutinho • 14 years ago
Cirkus’ Animation ABC – How IT works: a great instructional video about the animation process for clients.
Cirkus’ Animation ABC – How IT works: a great instructional video about the animation process for clients. Also a great detailed pdf on the Cirkus…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Psyop: Dante’s Inferno: Making Of
As a supplement to Lauren Indovina’s interview with Psyop regarding their work on EA’s Dante’s Inferno trailer, Psyop has graciously shared their storyboards and making-of…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Superteam proves power of collaboration in title sequence for FITC Tokyo
To kick off the FITC Tokyo 2015 conference, a superteam of artists working around the world (and sometimes around the clock) created a sublimely glitchy…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
What is web animation? Rachel Nabors explains it all.
Web design and motion design have been on a collision course since the early 2000s. Today, they’re finally merging, spawning strange new fields — and…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
How to change the world (and get paid for it): Making SolarCity “How Energy Gets To You”
Learn how a group of passionate environmentalists used innovative production techniques to tell stories that genuinely matter to them — all while getting paid.
Justin Cone • 9 years ago
A Day at the 2nd Motion Graphics Review
Festival reviews are not that common here, but I had such an amazing experience at the 2nd Motion Graphics Review, that I thought it was…
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Boca Ceravolo • 16 years ago
:weareom: Alpha Bank
The lads at Romanian studio :weareom: put in some long, tedious hours working on this spot for Alpha Bank. With only a few exceptions (the…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
PostPanic Goes Mysterious for McDonald’s
Watch The Lost Ring Trailer 1 | Trailer 2 | Trailer 3 Okay, wait. It’s not what you think. I promise you won’t see a…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Siggraph 2011: Technical Papers Fast Forward
Hi Motionographers! We’re at SIGGRAPH 2011, here in beautiful Vancouver. SIGGRAPH is the Association for Computing Machinery’s annual conference on computer graphics, where you can find…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
Not to Scale Brings the Volvo Vox Popular to Life
"If it was up to me, I’d drop it in the sea." "I can see, like, a superhero driving it as a safe car." "I…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
In-Depth Coverage: Stylefames NY Opener
Conference openers have become the vehicle of choice for many studios to show what they can do without an overbearing client or agency brief hemming…
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Staff • 12 years ago
Interview with Johnny Kelly: Dropbox “Creative Freedom”
Johnny Kelly’s approach can best be described using the principle of Occam’s Razor. In short, if all things are considered equal, the simplest solution is…
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Joe Donaldson • 9 years ago
Alexander Chen: “Conductor”
Interactive Designer and Google Creative Lab’s own Alexander Chen reinvented the subway map of New York City into an interactive, real-time instrument at mta.me. By…
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Brandon Lori • 14 years ago
Daniel Savage & Wondersauce: Yule Log 2.0
Yule Log 2.0 re-imagines the traditional Yule Log through a collection of 53 short films by illustrators, animators, directors, and creative coders. First televised in…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago
yesyesyall is like MTV back when it was MTV
I’m not a nostalgic person, but I grew up in a time when MTV wasn’t a 24-hour reality show marathon. Where I lived in suburban Houston,…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago