Brickyard VFX: Sprint
I’ve gotten a few emails about the new “Sprint Ahead” campaign, but I’ve been a little slow to post it (for reasons I’ll explain later).…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Attention Students: Making the Cut II
The CW, BLiNK, and Promax/BDA are hosting ” Making the Cut II,” a competition for students to create a promo for a CW show. They…
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Justin Cone • 17 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 • 17 years ago
Buck: Toyota “Through the Roof”
Buck recently posted a fun new spot for Toyota entitled “Through the Roof.” I love how the depth of field effect creates the sense of…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
E4 Music IDs Directed by Andy Martin
[flv:http://motionographermedia.com/andymartin/e4music.flv 468 263] This I promise: If you watch all 30 of the titles and IDs that Andy Martin designed and directed for E4 Music…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Exscuseth Me, Whilest I Kisseth Yonder Sky
How do you make the medieval ages cool without referencing Pulp Fiction and/or dragons? That was the challenge thrown down before director James Price and…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
From the Archives: “Moonlight in Glory”
The amazing TED conference has been slowly releasing videos from their last event, which took place a little over a year ago in March of…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
:weareom: Alpha Bank
The lads at Romanian studio :weareom: put in some long, tedious hours working on this spot for Alpha Bank. With only a few exceptions (the…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Korb – I’ll be gone
I’ve always been a sucker for a simple idea well executed. And right now I can’t think of a piece that achieves it better than…
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Simon Robson • 16 years ago
Gaelle Denis and MassMarket for DuPont
I read an essay once by Steven Millhauser that explained why miniatures are so engaging. In a nutshell, he says that miniatures enchant us by…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
The Moment, student short film from Filmakademie
The Moment is a charming animated film for the International Festival of Animated Film from Filmakademie students Csaba Letay and Verena Fels. I’ve been aware of the short for a…
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Jon Gorman • 16 years ago
Galactic Mail
Supinfocom alumni Asterokid (Douglas Lassance) and Motraboy (Jonathan Vuillemin) teamed up to create an intergalactic space race that pits FedEx against UPS. Produced by The…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Smith & Foulkes: Stop, Look & Listen
This one nearly slipped by the radar. “The Boy Who Didnʼt Stop, Look & Listen” is the first installment in a three-part series for the…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Ahoy, Nathan Love!
The Chips Ahoy Cookie Campaign has long been based on creative kookiness and comedic timing. Who best to execute this vision? Look no further than…
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Lauren Indovina • 16 years ago
The Crisis of Credit Visualized
“Oh great, here comes Old Man Cone again, rambling about visual essays.” I know, I know, but I really do believe that when motion design…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Some LEDs and the Duality of In-Camera Effects
Two LED spots have been dropped off the back of another. The first one, for Samsung, from The Viral Factory (director James Rouse) in London…
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Matt Lambert • 16 years ago
Oktobor: Tiger Beer
To christen their new site, Auckland-based Oktobor has released three gorgeous spots for Tiger Beer and agency Saatchi and Saatchi Worldwide. The spots star the…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Jonathan Jarvis and The New Mediators
Building on the success of his incredibly lucid and educational animation, “The Crisis of Credit Visualized,” designer/animator Jonathan Jarvis announced an interesting new venture, The…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Mass Animation: A Guest Rebuttal
Back in July, I scribbled out a diatribe against Mass Animation, a Facebook-supported competition to create a CG short film by crowd-sourcing the animation to…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Nokia N900: “Focus Group”
Channeling the same rebel spirit as the recent Verizon adverts for the Motorola Droid, this viral for the Nokia N900 injects the nucleus of a…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Edouard Salier: Massive Attack “Splitting the Atom”
The fixed moment of the catastrophe. The instant the atom bursts on the beast, the world freezes into a vitrified chaos. And we go through…
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Harm van Zon • 15 years ago
Modern Rebel: Alberto Mielgo & Pinkman.tv
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/AlbertoMielgo_Pinkman.TV_MakingOf_mpeg4.mov 800 314] Q&A: Can you describe your artistic background before finding your way to animation? I’m self taught. However, I started working on animation…
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Brandon Lori • 15 years ago
Smithson v. Oeffinger Layer Tennis Recap Q&A:
[qt:http://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/SMITHSON_VS_OEFFINGER2_smx.mov 788 245] Questions: Did you enjoy the match or was it stressful? Daniel Oeffinger: I enjoyed getting to work on something in a completely…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
See No Evil: 1 Year Anniversary
See No Evil, the London event that is run by Thiago Maia and our own James Wignall will celebrate its 1 year anniversary next week…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago