Supinfocom: Cafe Serre
[…] The camera work, while mostly stationary, moves the story forward with confidence, using simple two-shots, close-ups and some subtle rack-focus to keep the action…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Nathan Love’s Suicidal Cabbage
[…] anything else out there. The team is always experimenting with new styles and techniques to showcase our animation and storytelling skills. The idea was…
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Lauren Indovina • 15 years ago
Universal Everything Refreshes MTV
[…] MTV logo. The logo will dictate and direct all on-screen activity: the ‘EPG’ inspired timeline will be anchored by the logo, (in this case…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
PandaPanther: Pop Tarts “Flavorhood”
[…] and digital sides. We went through extensive planning and prepping before we started building anything, using our original previs as a guide for real…
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Tyquane Wright • 15 years ago
Shynola: Coldplay “Strawberry Swing”
[…] of projection system to keep track of things? No, we didn’t project anything on the floor. We had a grid marked on the floor…
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Lilian Darmono • 15 years ago
Alex Roman: TheThird&TheSeventh
[…] work, AfterEffects for compositing and color grading and Adobe Premiere for edit it all. My desktop PC (i7 920) it’s now the only hardware…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Twenty120 Roundup “In The Age of Opulence”
[…] stockpile of 20 independent films that each span a length of 120 seconds. Rid of any professional constraints, artists were given full creative license,…
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Brandon Lori • 15 years ago
By and By Q&A
[…] a range of lighting setups so she would feel as part of each scene. I love the shots of the train, taxis and people…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Rise and Fall Q&A:
[…] Rise and Fall are dynamically generated so we were constantly battling with trying do a lot visually but still keep the app running fast…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
I Am Not An Artist
[…] GIF Paranoia About Nonstop Design Workers, illustrates the process of design as hard and sometimes painful work using stop-motion and animated sequences that are…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Rebranding by Scott Benson Q&A:
[…] it without benefit of introduction and become very uncomfortable with what they were just passively agreeing with. This is partly to show the power…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
YMCA: Head Gear Animation
[…] positive mission statement to reclaim our community) work so well together in driving the message home. The simply brilliant message stays with me long…
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Lilian Darmono • 15 years ago
MAKE: PSISF Opener “Palm Springs”
[…] of drawing. In several scenes, assistants in-betweened and touched up the drawings of key animators, and finished animation was passed on to the colorists…
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Brandon Lori • 14 years ago
Charlex: Shape Shifter
[…] of space was given for creative input from the whole team (up to 15 artists), in an example of “an extremely collaborative effort”, as…
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Daniel Coutinho • 14 years ago
PES: The Deep
[…] or CGI. In the end I decided to go the live-action route. I shot footage of dust particles against a black backdrop at different…
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Brandon Lori • 14 years ago
The Lost Thing: Interview With Shaun Tan
[…] screen shot, printing it off and drawing over the top of it to figure out how it might be improved. Since production took place…
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Lilian Darmono • 14 years ago
TRON Legacy In-Depth with David Lewandowski
[…] aesthetic for the project. I felt from day one that code art would not be reliable in production. It can be beautiful and run…
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Staff • 13 years ago
Siggraph 2011: Damian Nenow “Paths of Hate”‘ Interview
[…] imperfections and unexpected motion, as if it was held by a human operator, sitting in another invisible aircraft, chasing those two main characters. The…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
Blur Talks: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Titles
[…] to mentally prep the audience for the ensuing film. In that regard, Blur’s titles are an exemplary specimen — perhaps the best from 2011.…
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Staff • 13 years ago
Bot & Dolly: Box
[…] content, Bot & Dolly brought on none other than Bradley G Munkowitz, no stranger to Motionographer. His trademark attention to detail is on full…
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Justin Cone • 11 years ago
Bot & Dolly: “Box” Interview and Behind the Scenes
[…] movement of the surfaces by the projector? Was it all preprogrammed based on the robots’ movements? The projectors and robots are all calibrated within…
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Justin Cone • 11 years ago
Louis Morton: Passer Passer
[…] animation. Amazing sound design provided by Katie Gately. For more of Louis’s work, check out Shape Dance (co-directed with Amy Lee Ketchum, the deliciously…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago
“Black Gold” by PES
[…] and the inevitable entropy that ultimately returns us all to nature. With shots of ants crawling out of a breast and a giant grasshopper…
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Justin Cone • 11 years ago
The Peach Kings “Mojo Thunder” [NSFW]
[…] Abuli/Bernet’s “Torpedo”, “Sin City,” and goofier yet still unsettling work like Michael Deforge and Max Fleischer’s weirdest Bimbo/Betty/Koko stuff. Once we nailed the final…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago