What does heart-based leadership have to do with my creative potential?

[…] we live is the result of a chain of millions of years of collective co-creativity.  It might be easier to understand this undertaking using… Read more

Marie Reig Florensa • 4 months ago

Combo Post

[…] presenters is incredibly impressive. Special scooby snacks for anyone who goes and does a little write-up about it for Motionographer. (Thanks to Sean for… Read more

Justin Cone • 18 years ago

Book Review: Graphic Design: The New Basics

[…] Graphic Artist and his Design Problems, GDTNB uses a clean grid for its layout. It works beautifully for both browsing and for research. Despite… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 years ago

Poll: Shepard Fairey

[…] familiar with Shepard Fairey, take a minute to read up on him (yes, that’s a Wikipedia link). Well-known in design and street art circles… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 years ago

When Graphic Plays Beyond Narrative

[…] and off that is, and despite its non-commercial value, it had received a lot of positive backing. One of which came from the French… Read more

Mark Webster • 15 years ago

Director Profile: Frankie de Leonardis

[…] El Hormiguero and other less well-known shows, such as Fenómenos or 4arreplegats (projects which won various LAUS awards). He was also an ADC*E Gold… Read more

Justin Cone • 14 years ago

Carine Khalifé: Young Galaxy — Blown Minded

[…] the process of making the film. I’ve copied in the whole of her text below. She talks of the exploratory process of animation, the… Read more

David Wilson • 13 years ago

Commercial work with boundaries: the commissioned work model

[…] rather from the hope of doing work that we can really own and be invested in that also tells the client’s story. Flexibility is… Read more

Joe Donaldson • 10 years ago

Q&A: Throne “Tharsis Sleeps”

[…] about the way this was made? So the whole film was animated frame by frame into the computer using Flash. Each shot was then… Read more

Andrew Montague • 10 years ago

Q&A: Gergely Wootsch demystifies the Magna Carta

[…] had a younger audience in mind. Stylistically, who or what were some of your inspirations? I was doing a fair bit of research and… Read more

Justin Cone • 10 years ago

Artist Profile: Joshua Harvey

[…] times. I used to growl at people when I was really young. Style frame for Goodbooks “Metamorphosis” produced at Buck When did you start… Read more

Justin Cone • 10 years ago

Journey through the layers of the mind

[…] weeks ago, Research at Google posted a fascinating blog post entitled, “Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks.” The team shares their experiments with artificial neural networks’… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

MK12 Interview: Making “Man of Action! II: Ashes of Vengeance”

[…] around we were really into pulp sc-i­fi paintings from the ‘40-50s, especially those of Ron Turner and Frank Kelly Freas, who had a way… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

Step by Step: Susan Yung

[…] have approached design as animators first and designers second. This approach can have its strengths, but it would be an understatement to say that… Read more

Joe Donaldson • 8 years ago

Stephen Panicara’s DPTV Rebrand

I came across this project by Steve Panicara over at the Motion Exchange and was very impressed by it. Immediately by the tight and energetic… Read more

Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago

A Conversation with Mate Steinforth

Recently we’ve seen more and more of Sehsucht, and with good reason: they’ve steadily been building steam through the years, and it’s culminating in some… Read more

Ivan Cruz • 13 years ago

NATL UPDTS WTH NW WRK

National Television updates with 3 new pieces As you all know, we really dig Nationals’ work. They’ve update with 3 new spots, which is surprising… Read more

Justin Cone • 19 years ago

Roses are Blue

Good ol’ friends of tween…it’s been a while… If you have time on your hands and are looking for inspiration and maybe even a few… Read more

Babe Baker • 19 years ago

BDA Focus Group: May 2nd, Hollywood

Normally, I wouldn’t post this kind of stuff, but since I’m going to be speaking at Promax/BDA this summer, I figured I have an obligation… Read more

Justin Cone • 18 years ago

QuickTime Tip: Fast Start

Just a friendly tip: If you’re compressing a video for the web and you’re using QuickTime to do it, make sure to enable Fast Start.… Read more

Justin Cone • 18 years ago

Interview: Lobo Does Dupont

A series of mood boards (PDF) The whole set of mood boards in one go Animatic, showing influences from Maeda and Vasarely (QT 6) An… Read more

Justin Cone • 18 years ago

Nando Costa and Friends Embrace the Elements for Nike

Nando Costa recently finished three super-clean :20 animations for Nike. Each sports balanced yet dynamic compositions and beautifully fluid movement—two of Nando’s trademarks. I’m super… Read more

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… Read more

Justin Cone • 18 years ago

Inspire 07 Schedule

Inspire 07 is fast approaching, and I’m getting really excited. This thing has really blown up! Our lineup of speakers is awesome, and the Cream… Read more

Justin Cone • 18 years ago