Making an “unfairy” tale: Malak and The Boat
[…] used Corona Renderer subsurface scattering and translucency to achieve the look I was intending. What were some of the biggest challenges for this project?…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Animate your way to Google
[…] dash of coding experience), this is an opportunity to reveal their inner unicorns — and catch the eye of Google while they’re at it.…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Watch New York City succumb to Mother Nature in “Wrapped”
“Wrapped” proves that watching New York City succumb to nature can be a surprisingly delightful experience. After a solid run at over 100 festivals, the student-created short film…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
FITC Toronto 2016 Titles
[…] Tanya Collier MacDonald, Orenda Titus Blair , Dolby Laboratories Trevor Haldenby, The Mission Business Varun Vachhar , Rangle.io Will Perkins, Art of the Title…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Circles vs squares: An ode to living in nature
This promo from Roger for the new season of History Channel’s “Mountain Men” starts off strong and then builds breathlessly from there. Full of inventive transitions…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Animade launches Boords storyboarding tool
https://motionographer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/0 5/2016-04-26_16x9_capture_mg_v1.mp4 The wizards at Animade recently released Boords, a simple, web-based tool for sharing storyboards. Boords has a Free plan that allows for 1…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
About the Motionographer facelift
[…] bold but fundamentally flawed. Patreon for the win! Our Patreon community was a massive help! We sent beta invites to everyone at the Beta…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
SoundOn with Sono Sanctus
[…] reason hadn’t worked with a sound designer to be able to. I had no idea how many submissions we’d receive so my “rollout” was…
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Joe Donaldson • 6 years ago
Celebrating the beauty and purpose behind this piece by Giant Ant. 2017 Winner – The Motion Awards
[…] Philpott SILENCE = DEATH Art Direction & Illustration: Rafael Mayani Animation Direction: Conor Whelan Animation: Conor Whelan, Taylor Peters, Junyi Xiao, Jay Grandin, Matt…
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Millie Verastegui • 4 years ago
Diversity in Character Design: 7 Steps to Designing a Convincing Persona
[…] we create are seen by millions of people and we want them to be seen in an aspirational way. Even if it’s a character…
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Hana Eunjin Yean • 3 years ago
DANIELS Strip to Their Underwear
[…] was like, you (director 1), me (director 2), our friend doug (camera), and some other random person who wanted to dance. And thats how…
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Ryan Rothermel • 14 years ago
Am I an Exceptional Creative Leader?
Part 1: “A leader of the heart: Are you one of them?” Part 2: “Am I a Leader? Are you also one?” Part…
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Marie Reig Florensa • 2 years ago
Do I lead from the Heart?
[…] see you there! Part 1: “A leader of the heart: Are you one of them?” Part 2: “Am I a Leader? Are you also…
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Marie Reig Florensa • 10 months ago
What does heart-based leadership have to do with my creative potential?
[…] not hesitate to reach out. With my heart, Marie Part 1: “A leader of the heart: Are you one of them?” Part 2: “Am I…
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Marie Reig Florensa • 4 months ago
Call for Entries: BassAwards 2016
The BassAwards celebrates its 4th edition and is looking for the top pieces made in 201 5 in the following categories: 1. BEST TV CHANNEL…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Tronic & Marco Brambilla – Spec Ops Game Trailer + Q&A
View trailer on Vimeo Q&A with Jesse Seppi and Vivian Rosenthal of Tronic From scouring through your previous work, this appears to be Tronic’s first…
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Jake Sargeant • 15 years ago
Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures
Stanford design instructor John Edmark has rethought the zoetrope with beautiful 3D-printed sculptures that animate when filmed in sync with a strobe light. Explains Edmark: These are…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Gregory Herman updates
Designer/director Gregory Herman is a rare individual. He is a hurricane of positive energy, and his approach to work is no less intense. His recently…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Getting Caught Up With Motion Theory
In the flurry of activity surrounding Inspire (not to mention this ramshackle mess I call my life), a couple new projects from Motion Theory slipped…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Nathan Love’s Suicidal Cabbage
Director: Nathan Love Executive Producer: Mike Harry Producer: Derrick Huang Creative Directors: Joe & Kate Burrascano Character Design / Storyboards: Morgan Schweitzer Animatic: Chase Massingill…
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Lauren Indovina • 15 years ago
Blood Trail Interview
[qt:http://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/bt.mov 720 405] Storyboards and Development Check out the storyboards and some making-of imagery behind this epic project. Interview The following is an interview with the…
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Lauren Indovina • 15 years ago
Nicholas Weigel of LAIKA/house Chats About Toys R Us
“Big Book” “Sale” Interview with Director Nicholas Weigel As with much of your work, these Toys “R” Us spots are visually very rich. There’s a…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Guilherme Marcondes: Bunraku Opening Sequence
For the opening title sequence of Guy Moshe’s film Bunraku, Guilherme Marcondes introduces us to the Bunraku alternate universe — from pre-historic animals fighting for…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
Prologue: X Men
Director Simon Clowes shared some valuable insight on the title sequence with Motionographer: The majority of these big budget movies have elaborate visual effects and…
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Daniel Coutinho • 13 years ago