Royale rings in the Holidays with “The Bell Ringer”
Last year’s holiday short from Royale, “The Impossible Present,” featured a mischievous kid with an iron will. The mischief continues in this year’s short, “The…
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Justin Cone • 12 years ago
Alexis Beaumont & Rémi Godin: Stuck in the Sound “Let’s Go”
This one nearly slipped past our radar. Directed by Alexis Beaumont and Rémi Godin, this music video for Stuck in the Sound’s “Let’s Go” is…
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Justin Cone • 12 years ago
Wriggles & Robins: Travis “Moving”
London-based Tom Wrigglesworth and Matt Robinson, aka Wriggles & Robins, create this lovely in-camera music video for Travis’s Moving. On a chilly chilly set, the…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago
Meindbender and Techno Image: UFCECÊ – for Gillette
The powerhouse duo of Meindbender and Techno Image have come together to create this masterpiece. It pairs director Pedro Conti’s style, voice, and flow with…
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Andres Weber • 11 years ago
Alan Poon, Eric Malika, Robin Nishio: Tim Horton’s “Coffee Art”
coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee FRESH POTS!!! Toronto-based Common Good and directors Alan Poon, Eric Malika, and Robin Nishio use coffee to tell the story of coffee at Tim…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago
Phantom Limb
Alex Grigg’s “Phantom Limb,” created for Late Night Work Club, is now online in its entirety (and apart from the LNWC compilation film). Poignantly minimal,…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Welcome to Motionographer 3.0
It's finally here, the new Motionographer website. And it only took 6 years. Here's why.
Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Motion design in games with Ubisoft’s Wylie Robinson
Motion design in games? It's more important than you think. Our interview with Wylie explains why.
Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Jack and the Giant
Lots of folks have been playing with Ferrofluid, magnets and household cleaners to create sumptuous, organic visuals. But this music video for alovelikepi’s “Jack and the…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Late Night Work Club is here to save 2016
Let's face it, 2016 has been a weird and divisive year. Thankfully, Late Night Work Club is back to instill hope and unite us all…
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Joe Donaldson • 8 years ago
Version2: AICP
It might be old news to some of you, but this gem slipped right by my radar. Version2 did a beautiful job presenting sponsors at…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Nick Ryan’s “A Lonely Sky”
Dublin-based director Nick Ryan’s new short film, “A Lonely Sky” strikes a chord with me. My brother, father and grandfather are all pilots, so I…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Adobe CS3 Product Tours Redux
There’s always more to a project than meets the eye. I recently made a post about how motion graphics is used in product tours, with…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
PF Flyers and Stefan Nadelman: Menomena “Evil Bee”
Stefan Nadelman’s excellent new music video for Menomena’s “Evil Bee” has just about everything you could ever want in a music video: Conflict. Love. Freedom.…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Fall Is Just Something That Grown-Ups Invented
Shilo smashed together live action, hand-drawn typography and cel animation for a raucous redesign of Cartoon Network. What’s nice about this approach is that Shilo…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Monstrous Legs
Here’s another magical tale from the wizards at MassMarket, prosthetics master Stan Winston and production company MJZ (among others). It’s such an enchanting narrative that…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
The Tale Continues…
You may have caught wind of a new company launched by Passion Pictures called Strange Beast. Like Psyop’s Blacklist, Strange Beast has built a roster…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
SHOWstudio for YSL
Okay, this is going to be a hard sell. It’s not motion graphics. And it was originally intended to be viewed on a much larger…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Black / White
The Sound of Color is five original songs each based on a specific color and videos created for those songs. The stand-out piece is definitely…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 17 years ago
See What’s Possible Challenge Winners
I’ve been biting my nails to see who was going to take home the grand prize for the Adobe Photoshop See What’s Possible Challenge presented…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Motion Theory: Guinness “Another Dimension”
Motion Theory’s Jesus de Francisco and Mark Kudsi directed this new advert for Guinness centering on the ancient sport of hurling. Having seen hurling on…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Coca-Cola “Unity”
W+K Portland tapped the prodigious powers of Smith&Foulkes (Nexus Productions) for this lively Coke spot starring Yao Ming and LeBron James. It’s a battle royale…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Andy Rutledge’s “The Opposite of Professional”
A friend of mine passed me Andy Rutledge’s “The Opposite of Professional,” a diatribe that argues, among other things, that design professionalism cannot be instilled…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
F5 Launches
F5’s web presence has officially launched! If you haven’t already heard about F5, it’s a two-day design festival on Thursday, April 16th and Friday, April…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago