No Clear Path to Profit for Online Video, Say Executives
Cnet.com’s coverage of last week’s RBC Technology, Media and Communications Conference paints a bleak picture for the current—and perhaps future—state of online video publishers’ ongoing…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Elastic: MTV Video Music Awards 2014 (case study + interview)
Brandon Lori dives deep into the elegant package for MTV's signature event.
Brandon Lori • 10 years ago
From motion design to game design: In-depth process behind Specimen
“I wanted to be a beginner again and feel like I was growing.” Those words from designer/director Erica Gorochow encapsulate the primary motivation behind deciding…
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Justin Cone • 9 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
Promax/BDA From the Inside Out
The view from my room at the Marriott New York By the Numbers 2 slices of pizza and a bottle of water: $12.24 Internet access…
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Justin Cone • 18 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
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
NFL on Fox Sports Redesign by Michael Cina Q&A
Can you give us a little background on how this project started and the approach you took with it? Around four years ago we were…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago
David Prosser: Matter Fisher
David Prosser‘s short film, Matter Fisher, makes it’s online debut this week as the winner of Short of the Week‘s Great Film Competition. It’s a…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
Nickelodeon Worldwide Refresh: Interview with dyrdee
Just in time for the back-to-school season, Nickelodeon, the children’s television network, is refreshing their worldwide broadcast package with a series of bubbly graphics that…
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Brandon Lori • 10 years ago
Destiny: Mars Opening Sequence, Q&A with the Directors
Prologue's opener for "Destiny" kicks off one of the most anticipated games of 2014. Motionographer goes deep with its co-directors, Ilya V. Abulkhanov and Simon…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Hybrid by birth: Getting to know Animade
I first became aware of London-based Animade via their iOS game Ready Steady Bang, a twitchy dueler packed with charming animation. They popped up again on…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
MODE 2019 (inter)play
Carlos El Asmar • 6 years ago
Rise and Fall Q&A:
Boards Interactive Magazine – Walkthrough Questions: How did this project come about? What was the initial brief from ‘boards magazine? We were contacted by Nexus…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Jungeun Kim: Interview
Interview Most of our features on Motionographer are commercials and shorts we fall in love with and want to share. To shine the light a…
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Staff • 14 years ago
Interview: A Behind-the-Scenes look at Vectorpark’s “Metamorphabet”
Those interested in the future of animation often cite interactive as a new horizon. Patrick Smith, better known as Vectorpark, has been fusing his own…
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Erica Gorochow • 10 years ago
4 Web Design Tips for Motion Graphics Sites
(Photo from muteboy) Here at Motionographer HQ, we spend a lot of time looking at motion graphics websites from around the world. Over the last…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
EP Banter: Talent, Trends & Technique
What is an Executive Producer? This role may go unnoticed by many of us, but the success of a company is often defined by this…
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Matt Lambert • 15 years ago
Ouroboros: AE Preset
After Effects wizard Sander Van Dijk has created a very powerful AE preset that will help you with all your stroke related needs. With the…
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Joe Donaldson • 10 years ago
Tendril, relaunching and repositioning in a shifting landscape
Toronto-based Tendril relaunched their web presence today, joining the growing number of nimble, mid-sized shops repositioning themselves in response to the hand-writing on the wall: …
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Artist Profile: Joshua Harvey
After 4 years at Buck’s LA office, creative director Joshua Harvey has struck out on his own, signing with Passion Pictures for representation. The body of…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
How a husband and wife team took a startup from brand to product launch
What makes “IMANDRA” a fascinating case study in the world of explainer videos is not its intricately detailed but elegant animation (although that’s very nice),…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
