[Interview] Buck: Good Books “Metamorphosis”
From Buck’s website: “The Buck team dug deep, channeling our inner gonzo, to direct and produce this homage promoting Good Books, the online bookseller that passes…
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Angelo Collazo • 13 years ago
Shilo: Winning the War
Watch “The War” Hand-drawn storyboards Shots from the blue screen shoot Style frames Stills from the finished product Motionographer’s Jon Saunders interviewed Andre Stringer and…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
No Clear Path to Profit for Online Video, Say Executives
Cnet.com’s coverage of last week’s RBC Technology, Media and Communications Conference paints a bleak picture for the current—and perhaps future—state of online video publishers’ ongoing…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Keep Your Crises Small
I found this video through illustrator Frank Chimero’s excellent blog and listened to it while working today. It’s a speech that Ed Catmull, president of…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Method for Halo 3
By now you’ve probably all seen Method’s amazing job on the latest Halo 3 spot. It’s getting pretty heavy airplay, and Method’s work stands up…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Welcome to WordWorld
I love motion graphics. I hope that’s obvious. But I also love children’s television—the educational kind, not so much the Spongebob Squarepants kind. As an…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Stunning trailer for Quicksilver’s latest snowbaording video, “That’s It, that’s All”. Tip: watch it in HD! (thanks, Miron!)
Stunning trailer for Quicksilver’s latest snowbaording video, “That’s It, that’s All”. Tip: watch it in HD! (thanks, Miron!)
Boca Ceravolo • 16 years ago
Vote for AdWeek’s Best Non-Super Bowl Commercial of the 2000’s
Today’s impossible task: vote for just one spot in AdWeek’s poll of the Best Commercials of the 2000’s that did not run during a Super…
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Dave Skaff • 15 years ago
Conan O’Brien’s editors on Final Cut X
Conan O’Brien’s editors on Final Cut X. (Thanks, Gideon!)
Justin Cone • 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
Blood Trail Interview
[qt:http://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/bt.mov 720 405] Storyboards and Development Check out the storyboards and some making-of imagery behind this epic project. Interview The following is an interview with the…
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Lauren Indovina • 15 years ago
Crafting a digital comic: Q&A with André Bergs
André Bergs is no stranger to animation. And the iPad is no stranger to digital comics. But André’s recently released “Protanopia” sports a unique look…
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Justin Cone • 7 years ago
Take My Heart… And My Lungs
For Valentine’s Day, Psyop took O. Henry’s classic “The Gift of the Magi,” and put it in the blender. The result is a deliciously demented…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Michele D’Auria: Honda “The Dream Comes True”
Michele D’Auria’s ambitious mini-bio of Soichiro Honda is full of jewel-toned palettes and beautiful illustrations that relate the genesis of the Honda brand with heart-felt…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Patrick Clair + Elastic: HBO’s True Detective
One of our favorite projects from 2013 was Patrick Clair’s launch trailer for Tom Clancy’s The Division, a global conspiracy theory rendered in elegant typography…
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Justin Cone • 11 years ago
Virtual reality is not filmmaking
Let’s agree on something: 360-degree video presented inside a virtual reality headset isn’t really virtual reality. It’s a novel, sometimes powerful experience, but it’s not what makes VR arguably the most…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Brand New School: Sharwood’s “Go East”
When I first watched "Go East," Brand New School’s new spot for Sharwood’s, I thought, "Well, that was a very nice bit of design work."…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Paris is burning
Paris is on fire again (the city, not the socialite whore). Every time I turn around there’s another hot track or remix or…. girl and…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
David Ochs: “Who’s Hungry?”
Our friends over at Cartoon Brew posted this gory re-telling of Hansel and Gretel from first-year CalArts student David Ochs. (It’s fairly bloody, so if…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
I AM interview
Sebastian Agneessens sat down to interview Vivian Rosenthal on November 2nd, 2009 about Tronic’s recent personal spot, I AM: I AM from TronicStudio on Vimeo.…
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John Cranston • 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
Hunter Gatherer: Prius Goes Plural
Prius Goes Plural — the latest piece by Hunter Gatherer — is a lighthearted homage to classic kids programming of the 70’s and 80’s. While…
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Brandon Lori • 14 years ago
David Prosser: Matter Fisher
David Prosser‘s short film, Matter Fisher, makes it’s online debut this week as the winner of Short of the Week‘s Great Film Competition. It’s a…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
Work/Life: The 40 Hour Work Week
Photo by adesigna The headline for this post probably strikes most of you as a joke — at least those of you working in motion…
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Justin Cone • 13 years ago