How to change the world (and get paid for it): Making SolarCity “How Energy Gets To You”
Learn how a group of passionate environmentalists used innovative production techniques to tell stories that genuinely matter to them — all while getting paid.
Justin Cone • 9 years ago
After Effects Seattle: “Pearls of Wisdom – VO to AE to C4D Lipsync” with Casey Latiolais
Casey will be showing us how he synced voiceover to an animated character on a recent project. The process he used to make a tediously…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
After Effects Seattle June
Making Hi-Res Monsters in ZBrush with Quincy Vadan Quincy is a Seattle-based advanced 3D modeler with a love of designing hi-res characters in ZBrush. In…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Contest: Wallpaper for Vector Packs
The folks at Go Media and I came up with an idea for a simple contest: Make a 1280×1024 wallpaper (.jpg or .gif) using at…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
VFX Townhall Recap and Links
Lee Stranahan’s Monday night VFX Townhall: The State of The Industry was a big success. Not in providing a solution, but in starting a discussion,…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 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
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
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
Poland rising: Juice studio explains why we’ll be seeing more Polish talent soon
Poland is bristling with CG talent, and our interview with Juice studio explains why. We also dig into the technical details behind the promotional short,…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
School Profile: CalArts
Conceived by Walt Disney in 1960 and established through a merger of two older art schools, CalArts is one of the nation's premiere institutions for…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
VR without goggles: “Field Trip to Mars” sends a souped up school bus to space
Winning 19 awards at Cannes last month, "Field Trip to Mars" is an innovative group VR experience powered by stunning real-time visuals and a bus-load…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Motionographer expands the UNEXPECTED!
We’re absolutely thrilled to introduce our new initiative .A.inspiration.
Staff • 5 hours ago
The Epic Doc Interview
THE EPIC DOC INTERVIEW The following is an interview with Varathit Uthaisri, (“Tu”), the Director of Google’s “The Epic Docs” animation, a DemoSlam campaign project,…
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Lauren Indovina • 14 years ago
Lori Nix, Joe Sabia, & Vincent Peone: The Story of Sushi
I’m a huge fan of photographer and diorama-master Lori Nix, so I was thrilled to see her lend her skills to this piece about sustainable…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago
Target and LA Live
Gentleman Scholar joined an impressive lineup of studios and directors to create content for Target’s screens at LA Live, the massive complex of entertainment venues…
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Staff • 12 years ago
Gergely Wootsch: Savages “Marshal Dear”
London-based Gergely Wootsch brings gorgeous Vonnegut-inspired visuals to this music video for the Savages’ Marshal Dear. Love the mix of 3D camera/environment and drawn 2D…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago
Gobelins: Annecy 2014
French school Gobelins, l’école de l’image consistently produces animation graduates of an amazing caliber, and their work rarely disappoints. Goblins has released their first crop…
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Justin Cone • 10 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) and…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Blending the physical and the digital in “Building a Rocket”
While the painstaking stop-motion of “Building a Rocket” is charming in itself, it’s the beautiful compositing of digital characters and elements that imbues the spot with a special magic.…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Making the Motionographer Patreon launch video
We go deep with Michelle Higa Fox (Slanted Studios) and Erica Gorochow (PepRally) about the making of the Motionographer launch video for its Patreon campaign.…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Understanding Patrick Clair
Ever wonder what makes Patrick Clair’s work so darn good? Nol Honig sits down with the Emmy Award-winning title designer to find out. Hint: it’s…
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Nol Honig • 7 years ago
✌️Farewell Motionographer✌️
"Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past…
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Joe Donaldson • 5 years ago
After Effects Seattle November: UI Industry Night
Join us for a night of UI Industry awesomeness! We have some amazing mograph/UI/UX artists from around Seattle’s top companies that will be giving short…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Jason Watts Demo Reel on Ventilate
Jason Watts Demo Reel on Ventilate
Babe Baker • 18 years ago