David OReilly: The External World
This Irish born, Berlin-based animator has accumulated a lot of fans over the years with his work such as 2009’s award winning “Please Say Something”,…
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David Wilson • 14 years ago
Psyop: Fage “Plain”
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Psyop_Fage_Plain.mov 848 480] What was CG and what was live action? Early in the project, we learned we only had two weeks for post…
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Brandon Lori • 13 years ago
ELASTIC: GAME OF THRONES
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Elastic_GOT_FS.mov 983 552] Angus, first off we wanted to congratulate you for the well deserved Oscar for your hard work alongside Kirk Baxter for The…
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Brian Gossett • 13 years ago
Carine Khalifé: Young Galaxy — Blown Minded
I’m so happy to be able to post this up on Motionographer. Finding an artistic collaboration of such beautiful execution that’s off the beaten track…
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David Wilson • 13 years ago
Prologue: X Men
Director Simon Clowes shared some valuable insight on the title sequence with Motionographer: The majority of these big budget movies have elaborate visual effects and…
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Daniel Coutinho • 13 years ago
Prologue: X-Men
The main sequence for X-Men: First Class, produced by Prologue, has a special retro/2D hand-made feel and serves as a strong example of how a…
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Daniel Coutinho • 13 years ago
Motionographer Holiday Catalog 2011 (Part 2)
In a continuation of last week’s post and Royale’s excellent holiday short, this is the second of Motionographer’s Holiday Catalog three-part series, which reviews some…
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Matt Hunter Ross • 13 years ago
Anthony Furlong/1st Avenue Machine: Nokia “Cowboy”
Anthony Furlong and 1st Ave. Machine get into some fun meta-storytelling for Nokia. A couple words on the production from Mr. Furlong: W+K came with…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago
invade ALL OF THE humans!!!
Attention Human-ographers. Your puny planet is under attack. Lay down your Wacoms and surrender to the awesome might of PX Micron and Calculord 3! Don’t…
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Simon Robson • 12 years ago
Cartoon Network – 20th Birthday Music Video by I Love Dust
I Love Dust Creative Director, Ingi Erlingsson and Art Director/Director, Ewen Stenhouse share their thoughts on Cartoon Network’s 20th Birthday Music Video, how they gave familiar characters…
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Brandon Lori • 12 years ago
Lucas Zanotto: The Real Bears
Here in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg recently championed some controversial restrictions on the sale of sugary soda drinks, sparking debates about how much government…
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Justin Cone • 12 years ago
Michel Gondry and Boris Vian: a match made in heaven
There has been much talk this week about the woes of the visual effects industry. Snubs at the Oscars did not go unnoticed, including that…
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Dominique Elliott • 12 years ago
HALO 4: Forward Unto Dawn – Title Sequence + Q&A – Polynoid
In December of last year Halo 4 came out and the world rejoiced. Along with it came a web series called Forward Unto Dawn which…
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Andres Weber • 12 years ago
Lauren Indovina: 10,000 Arrows to the Heart
Aside from being a Creative Director and Designer at Psyop since 2008 and collecting a number of top honors (Clios, ADC, BDA, AICP and the…
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Staff • 11 years ago
Jonathan Jarvis and Ray Dalio: How the Economic Machine Works
Jonathan Jarvis burst onto the scene (or at least onto Motionographer’s homepage) back in 2009, when he created an extremely helpful 10-minute animation, “The Crisis…
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Justin Cone • 11 years ago
Daniel Savage & Wondersauce: Yule Log 2.0
Yule Log 2.0 re-imagines the traditional Yule Log through a collection of 53 short films by illustrators, animators, directors, and creative coders. First televised in…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago
Phantom Limb
Alex Grigg’s “Phantom Limb,” created for Late Night Work Club, is now online in its entirety (and apart from the LNWC compilation film). Poignantly minimal,…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Xiangjun Shi: Why Do I Study Physics?
Physics and animation are not often bedfellows, but in the hands of Xiangjun “Shixie” Shi, they seem as natural a pairing as space and time.…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
OFFF Cincinnati 2014 Main Titles
It’s getting hard to stay afloat in the sea of title sequences being produced each year. The dominant trend has been to create increasingly epic…
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Staff • 10 years ago
Guilherme Marcondes on going it alone
Aspiring directors, listen up! Gui explains the ins and outs of representation in this insightful and honest interview.
Justin Cone • 10 years ago
FAUX IMAGES XV
The First Faux Fifteen is on! Talking Animals (B) X Andreas Nicolas Fischer (B) X tokyoplastic (UK). LEAP, Berlin, March 17th, 8pm.
Mate Steinforth • 10 years ago
Working backwards: From rig to character to story with Andrew Vucko
Editor’s note: This animation features cartoon-style nudity and sex, and therefore might be NSFW for some office environments. As any experienced animator will tell you, character animation…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Process: Lincoln Continental Concept
Block and Tackle and shares the process behind their painterly masterpiece promoting the Lincoln Continental concept car.
Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Interview with Johnny Kelly: Dropbox “Creative Freedom”
Johnny Kelly’s approach can best be described using the principle of Occam’s Razor. In short, if all things are considered equal, the simplest solution is…
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Joe Donaldson • 9 years ago