The Surreal Short Films of Stefan Ringelschwandtner
Stefan Rigelschwandtner, a student at the Academy of Design in Offenbach (Germany), just completed this un-official video piece for Radiohead‘s “Nude.” It has some nice…
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Matt Lambert • 14 years ago
Lacoste: Past, Present and Future
To celebrate Lacoste’s 75th birthday, the company created “Future,” an advert and website that imagines how the game of tennis might be played 75 years…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Book Review: Graphic Design: The New Basics
As promised, this is my review of Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips’ Graphic Design: The New Basics, published by Princeton Architectural Press. Overview Ellen…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Lobo for Saturn and Suez
Watch Saturn “Transformations” | Watch Suez Lobo (with The Ebeling Group) revisited the aesthetics of their Skank One Song project, but this time they did…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Yves Geleyn: Zune Arts “Mother Like No Other”
Watch on Zune Arts | Watch at Hornet In time for Mother’s Day, Hornet’s Yves Geleyn (repped by Passion Pictures Paris in Europe) keeps the…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Superfad: Sprint
Superfad posted a couple new spots for Sprint that fall neatly into my category of “visual essays.” Employing a style that’s reminiscent of the data…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Kevin Webster: metacosm
Kevin Webster is a senior Broadcast Design and Motion Graphics student as SCAD who’s been working furiously on an ambitious self-initiated project for over a…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Larry Cuba: Star Wars Computer Animation
This making-of video from Larry Cuba explains how he created the computer animation sequence used during the Death Star briefing scene in Star Wars Episode…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
AENY Meeting: Thursday, March 27th
This Thursday’s After Effects New York meeting promises to be fun. Andrew Kramer of Video Copilot will be there, and Maxon will be explaining the…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Using motion graphics to explain the future: Nokia’s Morph concept video
Using motion graphics to explain the future: Nokia’s Morph concept video
Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Fast Draw on CBS News
Josh Landis and Mitch Butler combined some bad green-screening, a whiteboard and After Effects to explain the mystifying concept of super-delegates. Katie Couric loved it.…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Robert Seidel’s processes: living paintings
Robert Seidel, the man behind the work of 2minds has created a wonderfully lush new piece designed specifically to be projected onto the Phyletic Museum…
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Jon Saunders • 15 years ago
Psyop’s Reverse Merger with Fortissimo
Okay okay, enough already. We’ve known about the Psyop “buyout” now for almost two weeks, but we didn’t report it because it’s industry news and…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Phillip Van and Method Studios: “And She Stares Longingly At What She Has Lost”
I don’t often get tingles from the work posted here, but this new short film directed by Phillip Van had my entire body covered in…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Psyop: Guinness “Dot”
Beautiful transitions and lush compositions make this Guinness spot from Psyop worthy of repeat viewing. As with much of Psyop’s work, this spot also uses…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
David Bolinsky on Truth and Beauty
This presentation delivered by medical illustrator and animator David Bolinsky is by no means new (it was posted on the TED site back in July),…
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Justin Cone • 15 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 • 15 years ago
Lindsay Daniels
Lindsay Daniels recently launched her personal site, featuring a moody reel brimming with her sophisticated style. Her work—particularly her typography—has a timeless, classic quality to…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Saving the World, One Animation at Time
I was reading through the latest issue of Discover magazine, when I came across an interesting interview conducted by Jennifer Barone. She was chatting with…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Reel FX: Pop-Up Transitions for Enchanted
I know we’ve all seen pop-up book transitions all over TV for the last six months or so, but this little making-of video from Reel…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Knife Party & Sixty40. F#*K!
Knife Party (Motionographers own Simon Robson) & Sydney crew Sixty40 collaborated on this 40 second promo for a new show on the UK’s Channel 4,…
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Jon Gorman • 15 years ago
Orie Weeks enchanting promo for Blitzen Trapper
Ladies and Gentlemen, take your seats and pray silence, please, for the new promo by director Orie Weeks for Blitzen Trapper and their blinding new…
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Simon Robson • 15 years ago
Superfad’s badass PS3 spot
Superfad just dropped this….umm super rad spot for Playstation 3. Really solid 3d work. Makes me want to break something. I had a chance to…
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Jon Saunders • 15 years ago
Lexus Pop Up
Just when you thought pop up ads could not be done again, agency Team One along with Stylewar as director came up with a whole…
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Jon Saunders • 15 years ago
