Nickelodeon Worldwide Refresh: Interview with dyrdee
Just in time for the back-to-school season, Nickelodeon, the children’s television network, is refreshing their worldwide broadcast package with a series of bubbly graphics that…
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Brandon Lori • 10 years ago
Crafting graphics for the Oscars: An interview with Henry Hobson
Like 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
In Pieces: A rare specimen of CSS-based animation
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) started as a way to conveniently manage the appearance of images and type across an entire website. Since 1996, CSS has…
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Justin Cone • 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
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
Are brick and mortar design schools worth it?
An engaging interview and a follow up article from two leaders in online education for motion design challenge the value of traditional four year design…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
NYC Gifathon, 30 days of animated GIFs by James Curran
[Interview] NYC Gifathon, 30 days of animated GIFs by James Curran
Justin Cone • 9 years ago
How to make your skin crawl, the story of “Teeth” with Holbrooks
After a successful run in the festival circuit, including a premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and a Special Jury Recognition award from the…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Gunner, their new film “Mesh” and the importance of changing things up
Hailing from Detroit, Gunner is something special. Something that represents a shifting landscape which challenges the status quo and the big studio model: a small…
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Joe Donaldson • 8 years ago
Motionographer expands the Unexpected!
We’re absolutely thrilled to introduce our new initiative .A.inspiration.
Staff • 3 days ago
Stepping Back
[Warning: There are no links to exciting new projects in the following post.] As usual, when I’m between quarters (or between massive projects), I get…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Brian Cain: Wedding Crashers “The Perfect Girl”
Brian Cain is finishing up his time at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and he decided to throw an intonation project* into his portfolio. Working…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
:weareom: Alpha Bank
The lads at Romanian studio :weareom: put in some long, tedious hours working on this spot for Alpha Bank. With only a few exceptions (the…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
The Nature Between Us: Q&A with Will Campbell and Jett Steiger
Back in 2007, as students at the Savannah College of Art and Design, William Campbell teamed up with Anh Vu to create The Lemon Tree,…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Boards Summit: Day 1 Round-Up
Despite a stagnant first-quarter this year, the turn-out at NYC’s Boards Summit was still pretty solid. Innovation in creative thinking, content-delivery and technology were a…
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Matt Lambert • 15 years ago
Fairness For Visual Effects Artists: Q&A
Q&A: Your letter to James Cameron this week has stirred up a lot of discussion in the Motion Design and Visual Effects fields about the…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
The Mothership Has Landed
If you saw our post yesterday, then you already know a little something about the mysterious entity known as Mothership. Today we got the full…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Siggraph 2011: Damian Nenow “Paths of Hate”‘ Interview
The trailer for Paths of Hate showcased its effortless combination of comic book visual style with dynamic dogfighting camera motion and kinetic editing. The film…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
Welcome to Motionographer 3.0
It's finally here, the new Motionographer website. And it only took 6 years. Here's why.
Justin Cone • 10 years ago
From Costco supervisor to computational artist, Albert Omoss blazes his own path
In the early days of my career, I bought into something I now call “The Myth of the Rockstar.” It goes like this: You are…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Motion and code: Getting to know Lucas Zanotto
Italian-born designer/animator Lucas Zanotto’s career is as varied and playful as his creations. Moving seamlessly between analogue and digital techniques, he’s created commercials, short films,…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Creative Parents, Creative Kids
In collaboration with reader Joe Linton, we conducted an informal survey in May asking parents about the role that creativity played in their parenting. We…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Robert Hodgin/Flight404
I first happened upon Ben Fry and Casey Reas’ a/v-oriented programming language, Processing, when I attended FITC back in 2005. (I even did a little…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
NATPE 2010 Coverage
Photo by Todd Ehlers NATPE 2010 Day One: “It’s the content, stupid!” There is no better place to get a snapshot of the state of…
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Dominique Elliott • 15 years ago