Q&A with Eric Glatt, former intern who sued Fox Searchlight
Eric Glatt is a for mer intern on the film Black Swan who, along with Alex Footman, sued Fox Searchlight for unpaid wages related to…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 11 years ago
Modern Love: Under His Misspell
NYC-based designer/ani mator Joe Donaldson was commissioned by the New York Times to create an animated interpretation of “Under His Misspell,” a column penned by…
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Justin Cone • 11 years ago
PES talks “Submarine Sandwich,” Garbage Pail Kids and the connectedness of things
Beloved stop- motion director PES is back with his most ambitious short film to date, “Submarine Sandwich.” With funding from both a corporate sponsor (Nikon)…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Crafting graphics for the Oscars: An interview with Henry Hobson
[…] people who tune into the Super Bowl just to watch the ads, I turn on the Oscars just to watch the graphics. The opening…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Q&A: Gergely Wootsch demystifies the Magna Carta
For the British Library’s “ Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy” exhibition, director Gergely Wootsch explains the history and importance of the document with his trademark wit and…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Artist Profile: Joshua Harvey
[…] The body of work he’s developed over the last 10 years is diverse and rich, ranging across styles and narrative structures. Through the following interview,…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
How a husband and wife team took a startup from brand to product launch
What makes “IMANDRA” a fascinating case study in the world of explainer videos is not its intricately detailed but elegant animation (although that’s very nice),…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Creative Parents, Creative Kids
In collaboration with reader Joe Linton, we conducted an infor mal survey in May asking parents about the role that creativity played in their parenting.…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Interview with Johnny Kelly: Dropbox “Creative Freedom”
Johnny Kelly’s approach can best be described using the principle of Occa m’s Razor. In short, if all things are considered equal, the simplest solution…
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Joe Donaldson • 9 years ago
Confirmation Bias, Motionographer and You
This is the first in a series of video essays tentatively entitled Render Break. Thanks for checking it out! Recently, motion designer extraordinaire Peter Quinn made…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
How to make your skin crawl, the story of “Teeth” with Holbrooks
After a successful run on the festival circuit, including a pre miere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and a Special Jury Recognition award from the 2015…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
40 Instagram accounts you should be following
I was an early adopter to Instagra m. I started my first account in 2011 — just a couple of months after they initially launched.…
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Brian Gossett • 9 years ago
Jack Cunningham and the White House build an AR tour powered by a buck
Charting the year ahead, you may be thinking about the products, services and causes you would love to call clients. The federal government might not…
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Erica Gorochow • 8 years ago
Looking back, moving on…
Unlike most founders, I’ve never thought of Motionographer as “my baby.” But, like a parent, I’ve been shaped by Motionographer in countless ways. Even before…
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Justin Cone • 6 years ago
HBO Voyeur Project
HBO voyeur is a tantalizing project the gives us a glimpse into all the simultaneous lives being acted out in a single apartment building. This…
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Jon Saunders • 17 years ago
How Firstborn became an agency without losing its soul
When I stepped off the elevators and into Firstborn’s headquarters, I thought maybe I’d made a mistake. I’ve been to quite a few agencies. No…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Am I talking poetry or am I talking business?
A leader of the heart: Are you one of them? #5 is a series of compact, heart-charged articles where executive coach Marie Reig Florensa –…
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Marie Reig Florensa • 7 months ago
Seeing Double
I see m to have a thing for posting in pairs lately. Weird. Jake Portman & Bill Sneed: The Forest in Winter There might be…
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Justin Cone • 19 years ago
Three Legged Legs: Humans!
In a style re miniscent of Psyop’s Anthem, Three Legged Legs’ Humans! is a charming little short that debuted at the Otis Senior Show last…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Takagi Masakatsu
I’ve never really liked ‘video art’. It just never see med to transgress how complete our established and prefered artforms feel to us. A good…
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Tread • 18 years ago
Interview: LAMBO brings the RAD
Working out the logo A sketch for the Coke “Oh Yeah” spot Style fra me for Fox College Sports Characters for the Coke “Bubbles” spot…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Combo Post
Apologies for my near absence from Motionographer over the past week. I’ve been working like mad on a couple projects for school, and I haven’t…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
fantastic PSA
PSA’s see m to have an unspoken right to be as graphic as they want to be for the sake of people’s safety. The result…
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Tread • 18 years ago
Fanning the Flames (Constructively)
Not long ago I explained how I was underwhel med by the new Sony Bravia advert. That post sparked a spirited exchange in the comments…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago