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
Javier Leon’s Mastery of The Miniature
Don’t you just love motion pieces that make you stare at them endlessly, yet you still can’t work out if it’s all real paper/clay/wood and…
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Lilian Darmono • 15 years ago
Megaforce for Kid Cudi: “Pursuit of Happiness”
This past week, a music video for Kid Cudi’s “Pursuit of Happiness” featuring MGMT and Ratatat, had a short lived fling with the Internet as…
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Lauren Indovina • 15 years ago
MAKE: PSISF Opener “Palm Springs”
Several days ago, we received the latest from MAKE: a knock down, drag out homage to film noir style crime dramas of old Hollywood, called…
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Brandon Lori • 14 years ago
Bare Bones US Debut
On Tuesday the 29th at NYC’s Envoy Enterprises, London-based art crew, Bare Bones (founded by Harry Malt), will be having their US debut show. After…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Red Giant TV Episode 47: Tiny Inventions By Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter
Red Giant TV Episode 47: Tiny Inventions By Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter – an amazing workflow demonstration of their techniques mixing stop-motion and computer…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago
Jonny Kofoed, PAMS Q&A
What was the initial pitch brief from the agency, and how did you choose to answer it? (I.e. by sticking closely to their wish list…
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Boca Ceravolo • 14 years ago
WORDS
The folks over at Everynone just released a new addition to their series of shorts in collaboration with NPR & WNYC’s Radiolab – an evocative…
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Matt Hunter Ross • 14 years ago
Friday Mix: Radium Audio
Wake up. It’s Friday. The weekend is so near you can smell it. Granted, it smells like beer and cigarettes, but you still need it.…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
F5: SOLD OUT (Kind Of)
Got ya and it’s not even April Fool’s yet. :) The scale has been ‘tipped’ and we’ve sold out our early tickets. What’s surprising is…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Matthias Hoegg: Thursday
Matthias Hoegg recently joined us to answer some questions about his short film, Thursday. It’s an everyday love story in the not so distant future,…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 14 years ago
Psyop: Fage “Plain”
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Psyop_Fage_Plain.mov 848 480] What was CG and what was live action? Early in the project, we learned we only had two weeks for post…
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Brandon Lori • 13 years ago
Ned Wenlock: “Apache” for Danger Beach
What was the concept behind the spinning environment in the piece? I had a rough, hazy idea for what happens in the video based on…
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Brandon Lori • 13 years ago
[Interview] Making “Amnesty International: 50 Years”
Interview with Director Carlos Lascano How did this project come about? Lukas Skalnik, producer from Eallin Motion Art and a good friend of mine, had…
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Staff • 13 years ago
AICP Southwest 2011 Sponsor Reel
Dallas-based Element X Creative garners a trainload of nostalgia for the AICP Southwest Awards Show with their 2011 Sponsor Reel. Through a mixture of blood,…
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Matt Hunter Ross • 13 years ago
Next Steps in Interactive: Marshmallow Laser Feast and Design I/O
Real-world projection mapping was all the rage in 2011. Many a building was seen breaking apart or getting filled up with geometric shapes. This technique…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
EXCLUSIVE: Making of King and Country’s Motel 6 “Metamorphosis”
When King and Country’s Motel 6 “Metamorphosis” spot hit the web a while back (above), it made a big splash. With nearly 1,400 likes on…
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Staff • 12 years ago
Stereoscopic 3D Production for Everyone: Part 1, The Camera
Editor’s note: The following post is from guest author Kevin McAuliffe, a Senior Editor at MIJO in Toronto. (You may also be familiar with his…
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kevinpmcauliffe • 12 years ago
HALO 4: Forward Unto Dawn – Title Sequence + Q&A – Polynoid
In December of last year Halo 4 came out and the world rejoiced. Along with it came a web series called Forward Unto Dawn which…
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Andres Weber • 12 years ago
Hayley Morris: Iron & Wine “Joy”
Hayley Morris creates a beautiful watercolor and stop-motion world for Iron & Wine’s Joy. The stunning music video was created over the course of two…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago
Spectacle: The Music Video
Spectacle: The Music Video is the first museum exhibition to celebrate the art and history of the music video. This groundbreaking exhibition, curated by Jonathan…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago
Virgilio Villoresi: John Mayer “Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967”
Milan-based Virgilio Villoresi uses the pre-cinema technique, ombro cinema, to animate the drawings made by Virginia Mori. Everything was filmed in live-action, no post production…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago
Liars Need Good Memory
In “Liars Need Good Memory,” Ringling College of Art and Design student James Heredia creates a visual poem about identity, belonging and lying. The collaged…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Edmond Was a Donkey
From Director Franck Dion, a unique and moving story about a man in search of himself. Process and more at the project site. Credits Written, Designed,…
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Matt Hunter Ross • 10 years ago