Metro de Madrid: “Transparente” (Updated)

“Transparente” aims at changing people’s perspectives about using the subway in Madrid. Literally. These kinds of vfx projects are all about restraint. Props to director… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Pangea Day

When I was a kid, I remember watching endless coverage of the “We Are the World” music video. Like a lot of people around the… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 years ago

Motionographer Podcast 01: This Way Up

The highly decorated animation direction duo Smith & Foulkes of Nexus Productions have recently unveiled their new animated short “This Way Up.” Created for Mike… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 years ago

Motionographer Podcast 02: Crush

In our second installment of the Motionographer Podcast, we chat with Gary Thomas, founder and creative director at Crush in Toronto. Some of the topics… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 years ago

Visionale Trailer

A group of German students from the University of Applied Sciences in Damstadt created this polished trailer (sorry, couldn’t resist the pun) for the visionale08… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 years ago

Imaginary Forces Creates Machine Vision for Terminator Salvation

Screen design is the term applied to the practice of creating interfaces or data visualization for prop displays and other screens in film and television.… Read more

Justin Cone • 15 years ago

Mass Animation = Mass Exploitation?

When Mass Animation announced their goal of creating a CG short film by “crowd-sourcing” the animation to a global community of thousands of animators, I… Read more

Justin Cone • 15 years ago

AICP Digital: Going Deeper

Photo by Mark Sebastian When the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) announced the formation of a new chapter, AICP Digital, we wondered what impact… Read more

Justin Cone • 15 years ago

Friday Mix: Alex Moulton “Time Traveler”

It’s Friday. Your aching brain machinery needs a little lubrication, some sonic petroleum to rejuvenate your synapses. We’ve got just the thing. Lovingly mixed for… Read more

Justin Cone • 15 years ago

Garson Yu interviewed at Forget the Film, Watch the Titles

Garson Yu interviewed at Forget the Film, Watch the Titles

Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago

5’th Annual Typophile Film Festival: Opening Title

If you love typography, look no further. Handmade by students and faculty at Brigham Young University (BYU), the opening-title for the 5’th annual Typophile Film… Read more

Brandon Lori • 15 years ago

Pleix Round-Up: New Homes, New Spots

The directing-collective that brought us these raving rabbits for Groove Armada in ’07, give birth to about a million more of the CG-varietal for Duracell.… Read more

Matt Lambert • 15 years ago

Tronic & Marco Brambilla – Spec Ops Game Trailer + Q&A

View trailer on Vimeo Q&A with Jesse Seppi and Vivian Rosenthal of Tronic From scouring through your previous work, this appears to be Tronic’s first… Read more

Jake Sargeant • 15 years ago

Previsualization Society Launches

The Previsualization Society is a new organization, formed in September 2009 that is “dedicated to advancing previsualization (“previs”) in feature film, games, commercials and architecture.”… Read more

Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago

Modern Rebel: Alberto Mielgo & Pinkman.tv

Alberto Mielgo is an artist’s artist. It is a particular distinction, suggesting not mere talent, but a quality of rebelliousness, one whose appeal is contingent… Read more

Brandon Lori • 15 years ago

Kitteh Kitteh!!

UPDATE: 2 more items are added to the Q&A section, the result of a few readers’ additional query which I followed up with Sam. Sorry… Read more

Lilian Darmono • 15 years ago

Seagulls Fly “Adobe CS5 – Production Premium”

Q&A with Seagulls Fly by Michelle Higa, with help from Boca Ceravolo and Bran Dougherty-Johnson Can you talk a bit about the brief – was… Read more

Michelle Higa Fox • 14 years ago

Ned Wenlock: “Apache” for Danger Beach

What was the concept behind the spinning environment in the piece? I had a rough, hazy idea for what happens in the video based on… Read more

Brandon Lori • 13 years ago

TRON Legacy In-Depth with David Lewandowski

Editor’s note: The following is a guest contribution from writer Meleah Maynard. What would the DNA of a one-of-a-kind being look like if it could be… Read more

Staff • 13 years ago

Evelyn Evelyn “Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn”

This playful promo for Evelyn Evelyn’s “Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn” directed by Hoku Uchiyama is a great way to kick off (or cap… Read more

Justin Cone • 13 years ago

Micaël Reynaud: Amalgamation

Winner of the best use of displacement map/compound blur ever — Micaël Reynaud, with portraits by Michael Jang. Also available as an animated gif, of… Read more

Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago

Happycamper for China Mobile: “Wireless City”

Happycamper spent the fall of 2011 working alongside China Mobile to create an ambitious mixed-media piece in Wireless City. Using a combination of traditional model-making… Read more

Brandon Lori • 13 years ago

SXSW 2012: Film Title Design Awards

photo credit: Art of the Title The Film Title Design Awards program is unique among the SXSW screenings in that it opens with a panel… Read more

Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago

Motionographer’s Role in the Industry (Right Now)

We recently posted a short op-ed piece that sparked a good deal of comments. In sharing this news, Motionographer was a bit late to the… Read more

Justin Cone • 12 years ago