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
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
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
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
Prologue is searching for designers/animators
Company Name: Prologue Location (City, State/Province, Country): Malibu, California, U.S.A. Webstite URL: https://www.prologue.com/ Contact: jobs@prologue.com Job Title: Design/Animation Positions – see below for complete job…
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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
David OReilly Releases an Internet Maze of Shorts
Director, David OReilly has dropped a url-go-round of shorts — the first of which is titled, “The Horse Raised By Spheres“. The films feature OReilly’s classic black humor, but the format and…
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Erica Gorochow • 10 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
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
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
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
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
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
Newsletter Advertisers
Reach an all-new, motion-savvy audience looking for products and solutions. Promote your product or service to an all-new audience that is actively looking for recommendations.…
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Stuart Groves • 2 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
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
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
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
Encoding Video for the Web with QuickTime Pro
One of the things we get asked about all the time is how to properly compress video for the web. Dozens of books and technical…
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Justin Cone • 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 • 17 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
How To Make Sure You Can Show Work In Your Portfolio
Can’t say Title (confidential) by Sebas & Clim You’re in the midst of production — the style frames you designed were approved, the work-in-progress animations…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 11 years ago
Credit Where Credit Is Due
When we see something great here at Motionographer HQ, we really like to know who’s behind it. We want to know who it was made…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago