Kromag #7
Kromag #7 (featuring: Helio Vega, Matt Lambert, Rob Chiu, Renascent, Onesize and many more)
Harm van Zon • 12 years ago
Digital Currency and You.
As our industry changes, it’s important to keep an eye on how trends in the wider world can affect us. While Motionographer does not specifically…
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Elliot Blanchard • 11 years ago
Leonardo da Vinci Was a Loser
Success is a slippery term. How do you define success for yourself?
Justin Cone • 11 years ago
Q&A: Dark Noir
Maybe there's an approach to crowdsourcing that isn't creatively repulsive or ethically bankrupt. Here's how Red Knuckles, Rafael Grampá and Absolut worked with a few…
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Justin Cone • 11 years ago
Michael Langan: Hundred Waters “Cavity”
Michael Langan’s music video for Hundred Waters’ “Cavity” features the filmmaker’s trademark penchant for playing with multiplicity and repetition. What begins as a deceptively simple…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Parasol Island: “Pink Troubles”
Parasol Island’s self-initiated short “Pink Troubles” features endearing character design and lush environment design. From PI: ‘Pink Troubles’ is the story of a lonesome flamingo…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
HunterGatherer for AM Lab, “Schmutz!”
Greasy screens? Not if HunterGatherer has anything to do with it! In Schmutz!, the gang gets down and dirty with AM Lab: a Danish company with a long history…
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Brandon Lori • 10 years ago
Q&A: Throne “Tharsis Sleeps”
What says "heavy metal" more than a few thousand frames of animated embroidery? Here's how it was done.
Andrew Montague • 10 years ago
Best Tutorial Ever?
Wildly entertaining and incredibly practical, are these... the best tutorials ever?
Joe Donaldson • 10 years ago
Destiny: Mars Opening Sequence, Q&A with the Directors
Prologue's opener for "Destiny" kicks off one of the most anticipated games of 2014. Motionographer goes deep with its co-directors, Ilya V. Abulkhanov and Simon…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures
Stanford design instructor John Edmark has rethought the zoetrope with beautiful 3D-printed sculptures that animate when filmed in sync with a strobe light. Explains Edmark: These are…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Motionographer Podcast: Making “Anomaly”
Set against the space-race canvas of the 1960’s, Anomaly is inspired by the traditional Christmas Nativity and explores, through a modern-day lens, the events of…
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Brian Gossett • 10 years ago
Golden Wolf proves you can’t go wrong with cats for Offset 2015
For the Offset 2015 conference title sequence, Golden Wolf put all their chips on the internet’s only sure bet: cats. Lots and lots of cats.…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
67th Primetime Emmy Awards adds Motion Design category
UPDATE: The deadline for entry in the Motion Design category has been extended to May 15th. See below for more details. The Motion Design category…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Kung Fury
As a child of the 80s, there are three things that course through my blood: buddy cop films, martial arts flicks and Tang. Kung Fury, a…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Colin Hesterly directs Škoda “Tour De France”
Director Colin Hesterly crafted a charming hand-drawn tale of Škoda inspired by vintage automobile advertising and the Czech car manufacturer’s own 120 year history. Not To…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
From motion design to game design: In-depth process behind Specimen
“I wanted to be a beginner again and feel like I was growing.” Those words from designer/director Erica Gorochow encapsulate the primary motivation behind deciding…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Lessons learned: Daniel Coutinho’s journey from Brazil to Buck
In 2011, Daniel Coutinho left his family, his home and his girlfriend in pursuit of a dream. Now, as a staff animator at Buck —…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Blend Manifesto
From the candy coated palette to its cheery metaphors of rainbows and confetti, the manifesto video for the upcoming Blend conference is bubbling over with the…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
School Profile: Savannah College of Art & Design
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of school profiles we’ll be sharing on Motionographer. The following profile was compiled in August, 2015. Since…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
DEmark 2015 Opening Titles
Nord Collective’s quirky titles for the DEmark 2015 titles feature a literal interpretation of the event’s theme, “Touch of Design.” Combining a custom tailored typeface…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
The Genius of Play
Working with Mash Studio, Tom Rainford focused his directorial talents on The Genius of Play, a 9-part animation series for for the Toy Industry Association. Each of the 9…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Buck for Nike Hypervenom
Nike’s Hypervenom line has been the subject of some fiercely sexy CG work, but these two spots from Buck take things an entirely different direction.…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Magic Leap… no, for real this time
Augmented reality startup Magic Leap made headlines last year when it raised over $540 million dollars in funding while still managing to hide its plans from…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago