Looking back, moving on…

It's with a heavy heart that I present you with Justin Cone's last Motionographer post.

Justin Cone • 6 years ago

Reliving The Past Motion Awards Winners! | Dreams of Dalí / Goodby Silverstein & Partners

The Dalí Museum in Florida sought to attract a wider audience to its exhibition, Disney and Dalí: Architects of the Imagination. To achieve this, they… Read more

Staff • 3 weeks ago

Interview with Hasmik Mkhchyan: A journey through time and technology

Hasmik’s journey from traditional art to AI-driven motion design blends the old with the new. Trained in hand-drawn techniques at the Armenian Academy of Fine… Read more

Natalia Gonzalez • 3 weeks ago

A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That…

It’s been a while since I’ve made a combo post, but I’m feeling schizophrenic tonight, so I figured what the hell. What follows is an… Read more

Justin Cone • 18 years ago

Zune: Nice Spot, Crap Hardware

Microsoft recently posted a really nice spot promoting their new Zune player. Too bad the player itself is a DRM whore. Typical Microsoft antics. One… Read more

Justin Cone • 18 years ago

WOOF-EL

This short film, entitled WOFL, by David O’Reilly is fantastic. I love the animation of the little wolf thing. I can’t quite explain it, but… Read more

Tread • 18 years ago

Blacklist’s Cisma Scores for ESPN and the NBA

Cisma (a.k.a. Denis Kamioka, formerly of Lobo, now with Psyop’s Blacklist) has directed a series of incredible cel animated spots for ESPN and the NBA.… Read more

Justin Cone • 18 years ago

Sony vs. Kozyndan Update

Background For those of you who’ve missed the drama, I’ll try to bring you up to date. Last week, we posted the latest spot in… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Digital Kitchen: Microsoft MindQuest

Digital Kitchen’s MindQuest isn’t just a hilarious attempt at recreating cutting edge video production values from the 1980s (although it totally nails that); it’s a… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Hornet’s Aaron Stewart for Cellular South

A true character animator to the core, Hornet’s Aaron Stewart knows just how to tickle my fancy with the simplest forms and movement. Aaron’s latest… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 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… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

The Mill: Puma “Until Then” (or “Speed Legs”)

“Until Then,” a futuristic spot for Puma with vfx from The Mill, features some stunning choreography—both in terms of the mo-cap and the digital choreography… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Roger: Creativity Top5

Short, sweet and insanely detailed, this intro blip for Creativity’s Top5 weekly video series is full of Roger’s personality. Roger, the LA-based studio, that is.… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

NBA “Navigation” Credits

Client: NBA Agency: Goodby Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco Partner/Creative Director: Jamie Barrett Creative Director/Copywriter: Ari Weiss Art Director: Stefan Copiz Producer: Michael Damiani Live… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Mainframe: Wallpaper* Awards

With only a few days to turn the project around, Mainframe cranked out a series of cute animations for Wallpaper*’s design awards. A team of… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Digital Kitchen: Sundance 08

We posted Digital Kitchen’s brand bumpers from last year’s Sundance Film Festival, and now they’re back with a couple more. Inspired by the legendary Eames… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Fuck Death

Fuck Death is Graydon’s Sheppard’s way of helping the Fuck Death Foundation spread its message and achieve its goal of the “elimination of death through… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Psyop/Stink: Adidas “Zheng Zhi”

As a follow up to “Together,” Psyop and Stink created “Zheng Zhi” for Adidas. Like it’s predecessor, “Zheng Zhi” uses crowds of hand-drawn people to… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Hyper Island Launches Interactive Art Director Program

Swedish design school Hyper Island has launched an interesting new 32-week Interactive Art Director Program. While the objectives and assignments are built around interactive projects,… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Advanced Beauty

Matt Pyke, founder of Universal Everything and Everyone Forever has now put together a project entitled “Advanced Beauty” with his brother Simon Pyke (Freeform). The… Read more

Jon Saunders • 17 years ago

Nexus give NSPCC a Helping Hand(s)

Upgraded from Quickie Carolina Melis of London’s Nexus Production recently directed this lovely animated spot for NSPCC’s campaign against smacking. I found the style of… Read more

James Wignall • 16 years ago

Ole Sturm’s AE Expressions/Scripts community pool now open

Ole Sturm’s AE Expressions/Scripting community pool now open (Ole’s site)

Matt Hunter Ross • 16 years ago

Radiolab: Visual Experiment 01 “Parabolas”

This one’s definitely not for everyone, but for those of you out there (like me) who are massive fans of the WNYC show Radiolab, you’ll… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 years ago

Ghost Robot: “Bonnaroo Line-Up”

Waaay back in July 2008, we posted a Quickie on Javan Ivey’s beautiful “My Paper Mind” video, produced using a self-devised method called “Stratastencil” (inspired… Read more

Boca Ceravolo • 16 years ago