Airside + Demos: The Power Gap
British think-tank Demos teamed up with creative agency Airside to create “The Power Gap,” a three-minute visual essay that surveys the history of power structures…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
I’m Here
Years ago, as a student, I read Stefan Sagmeister’s list of personal goals. There were heaps of silly ones, but one has remained with me…
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Lilian Darmono • 15 years ago
Plastic Bag by Ramin Bahrani
To some of you, this piece may feel out of character in relation to our regularly posted content. However, there are universal lessons in storytelling…
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Matt Lambert • 15 years ago
Kenichi Tanaka: Japan-A Strange Country
UPDATE: English VO version found on youtube! Thanks for the info, tvp. Kenichi Tanaka made this thesis piece to show his countrymen that things that…
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Lilian Darmono • 15 years ago
Leftchannel: motion 2013 Opener
Columbus-based Leftchannel has been plugging away for over 10 years, but it’s been a while since we’ve posted them on Motionographer. Their recently launched opener…
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Staff • 11 years ago
OFFF Cincinnati 2014 Main Titles
It’s getting hard to stay afloat in the sea of title sequences being produced each year. The dominant trend has been to create increasingly epic…
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Staff • 10 years ago
Way to Go, a VR-friendly walk through the woods
Shortly after we were musing on the state of storytelling for emerging virtual reality platforms here on Motionographer, the National Film Board of Canada released Way…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
A journey through 8 levels of hell, “Falter”
Take a journey through 8 levels of hell in this beautifully rendered spot for an Austrian newspaper.
Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Three Legged Legs: Humans!
In a style reminiscent of Psyop’s Anthem, Three Legged Legs’ Humans! is a charming little short that debuted at the Otis Senior Show last week.…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Minivegas Creates Real-time Idents for S4C
Well, UK studio Minivegas has officially blown my mind. After a year brewing up brilliant ideas, crunching over 50,000 lines of code and shooting live…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Santa Maria Joins the Hornet Family
Josh Goodrich and David Hill (a.k.a. Santa Maria) have officially landed in Hornet’s nest. To celebrate their arrival, two of their latest new projects have…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
1st Ave. Machine: Audi ‘Unboxed’
Happy 2009 to everyone! The folks at 1st Ave Machine and Passion Pictures are ringing in the new year with “Unboxed“, an imaginative commercial for…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 16 years ago
Civilization by Marco Brambilla (featuring Crush)
Imagine stepping into an elevator and looking through a viewport that reveals your ascension to heaven or—if you’re on your way to the street—your descent…
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Justin Cone • 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
ONE DAY ON EARTH: 10/10/10 UPDATE
Last year we posted news on the One Day on Earth project, an ambitious initiative that planned to document life in every country in the…
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Tyquane Wright • 14 years ago
One Day on Earth / 12.12.12
By the time this post goes live, One Day on Earth’s third installment will have begun somewhere on this crazy planet of ours. On December…
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Justin Cone • 12 years ago
6 motion design industry predictions for 2015
Somehow, 2015 is here. So I dug up my crystal ball (a Times Square snow globe from 1987), put on some trance-inducing music and visited the…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Psyop jumps in the VR game with “Kismet”
Targeted at higher end VR systems like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, Psyop's "Kismet" is a real-time VR experience that leverages the studio's long-standing…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Looking back, moving on…
It's with a heavy heart that I present you with Justin Cone's last Motionographer post.
Justin Cone • 6 years ago
Inside SIGGRAPH 2006
Monster Samurai / Grace McNamee Doll Face / Andrew Huang Brush / Victoria Caution Fog (Niebla) / Santi Fort e-scape / Masakazu Takano Mask of…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Robert Hodgin/Flight404
I first happened upon Ben Fry and Casey Reas’ a/v-oriented programming language, Processing, when I attended FITC back in 2005. (I even did a little…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Psyop: In-Depth with Tony Barbieri
This interview with Technical Director and Project Lead Tony Barbieri is part of a three-part series that goes deep behind the scenes with Psyop regarding their…
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Brandon Lori • 15 years ago
Onesize: Playground Titles
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/PlaygroundsTitle_H264.mov 900 506] Onesize creative director Rogier Hendriks: We ended up with the idea to have two fighters on a children’s playground. Kind of a…
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Jon Saunders • 15 years ago
Max Hattler’s 1923 & 1925: Q&A
Questions: How were you introduced to the Animation Workshop, and how did this collaboration come about? Norwegian animation theorist Joakim Pedersen – who I used…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago