Vinicius Costa Updates

Brazilian designer Vinicius Costa recently updated his site with six quirky new spots for MTV. The spots, which Vinicius created with stop-motion help from Animatório,… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Hyper Island Launches Interactive Art Director Program

Swedish design school Hyper Island has launched an interesting new 32-week Interactive Art Director Program. While the objectives and assignments are built around interactive projects,… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Lowerground update

New update and reel from Germany’s Lowerground. Some nice stuff!

James Wignall • 17 years ago

Advanced Beauty

Matt Pyke, founder of Universal Everything and Everyone Forever has now put together a project entitled “Advanced Beauty” with his brother Simon Pyke (Freeform). The… Read more

Jon Saunders • 17 years ago

The work of Russell Hirtzel

The work of Russell Hirtzel

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

CareerBuilder Help Yourself Campaign

I’m posting these two CareerBuilder spots for the hilarious copywriting from Wieden+Kennedy and for the spot-on direction from Mike Mills (The Directors Bureau), but A52… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

FIFA Street 3 Viral

Damn it, I hate when something is so obviously a viral and yet still entertaining enough to watch over and over. Anyone have any idea… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

The next time your mom asks you what typography is, show her this video (thanks Michael!)

The next time your mom asks you what typography is, show her this video (thanks Michael!)

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

More amazing vfx on a shoestring, this time it’s just one guy over the course of five months

More amazing vfx on a shoestring, this time it’s just one guy over the course of five months (thanks Mike!)

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Philip Glass, blowing kids’ minds back in ’79

Philip Glass, blowing kids’ minds back in ’79

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

MGMT: Time To Pretend (or Holy Hipster Explosion!) Thanks Chad, Chace!

MGMT: Time To Pretend (or Holy Hipster Explosion!) Thanks Chad, Chace!

Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 17 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… Read more

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… Read more

Justin Cone • 8 years ago

Making “Party Pooper,” a browser-based game from Animade

"For anyone trying to make a game as a small project, I’d recommend scaling it back to make it manageable — focus on the core… Read more

Justin Cone • 8 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… Read more

Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago

GoldRunner, Vivian Rosenthal and Augmented Reality

I cut my teeth on motion design at turn of the 21st century, when the desktop computer revolution was in full swing. A handful of… Read more

Justin Cone • 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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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.… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 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… Read more

Joe Donaldson • 5 years ago

Atelier Transfert: Watch and Learn

One of animation’s greatest strengths is its ability to simplify complex systems for digestion by the widest possible audience. This is something Montreal based Atelier… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 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… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago