Optimus AICP Sponsor reel Concept and Credits
PROJECT: AICP Midwest Sponsor Reel Our piece for the AICP Midwest show is best described as a late ’70s early 80’s music video tour of…
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Jon Saunders • 17 years ago
Motion design in games with Ubisoft’s Wylie Robinson
[…] goes unnoticed. But in everything from GUI design to narrative sequences, motion design is clawing its way to center stage, where game designers are…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Gretel: IFC Rebrand
[…] a channel once focusing strictly on classic film — have made a strategic decision to deemphasize, putting a more general focus on movies and…
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Brandon Lori • 10 years ago
Jeffrey Metzner: 1941-2008
[…] cultures in his class. It’s also worth mentioning that this was a man in his 60’s teaching and influencing the motion graphics industry, an…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
OCB Black Thinking Credits
[See original post] Title: “Black Thin King” Client: Republic Technologies Product: OCB Client contact: Valérie Amiguas Advertising agency: Road (Barcelona) Executive creative director: Emilio Lezaun…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Bob Nelson on Joining Eyeball
[…] the advertising agency is fundamentally changing somehow? What about the role of the studio? This is what’s changed, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone: media…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Understanding Patrick Clair
[…] Clair was pretty much nowhere. He was obsessed with motion graphics but didn’t even own a computer. And yet somehow, eleven years later he…
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Nol Honig • 7 years ago
Lucas Zanotto for TUI
[…] cut-outs, fishing line, a hole puncher, and a Canon 7D? Lucas Zanotto shows us with his live action animation combined with digital post production…
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Austin Shaw • 14 years ago
Newsletter Advertisers
[…] A Format A is a text-only ad that appears in the same look as our app recommendations just below the ad. Great for promoting…
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Stuart Groves • 2 years ago
La Linea & Estacao Sigma
[…] solution. The background color changes as mood or feelings of the character change, but most of the series was black and white. The cartoon…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Saving the World, One Animation at Time
[…] convey complex data in novel, compelling ways. The software, called Trendalyzer, was acquired by the good Samaritans at Google and has been used in…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Caviar & Nicographics for Towa Tei’s ‘Mind Wall’
[…] well-paced, not draggy. Has delightful, visual transitions. Accompanies a great song. Puts a smile on my face, making a drab workday afternoon much more…
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Lilian Darmono • 16 years ago
LAIKA: Tostitos “The Amazing Flamenco Chef” (Updated with Q&A)
[…] Nicholas Weigel, director of “The Amazing Flamenco Dancer” and Motionographer’s Lauren Indovina. Lauren Indovina: Can you tell us a little bit about how you…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
2010 AICP Results
Fresh from the 2010 AICP Awards at MoMA in NYC, we’ve got the results to share. Top production companies are MJZ (12 honors), Biscuit (5),…
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Matt Lambert • 14 years ago
State of Design 2011 Playlist
This is the playlist of videos from Justin Cone’s PromaxBDA State of Design 2011 presentation. In most cases, credits are on the linked pages. Thanks…
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Justin Cone • 13 years ago
Out of Sight
Out of Sight on Vimeo. So this is a year old, but it’s still wonderful, and I can’t believe it’s slipped through my posting schedule.…
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Lilian Darmono • 13 years ago
A Conversation with Mate Steinforth
[…] some brilliant work. A few of us at Motionographer were curious about how Sehsucht’s Berlin office came about. So we struck up a conversation…
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Ivan Cruz • 13 years ago
Lagoa Launches, Blows Minds
[…] Lagoa’s not paying me or Motionographer to write this. I’m genuinely impressed by the software. But I’m also not a super demanding CG professional;…
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Justin Cone • 12 years ago
How Pixar, Dreamworks, Lucasfilm and others kept wages artificially low
[…] by agreeing not to “bid up” salary offers should an employee be considering both companies. Despite a settlement in the class-action lawsuit originally filed…
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Staff • 10 years ago
What it takes to be “Original”
[…] succinct advice. Andrew gave us a little more info about the creation of this self-initiated project. Making “Original”: Q&A with Andrew Vucko Why did…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
VR storytelling wars begin, but will anyone be watching?
As predicted in my earth-shattering post, “6 Motion Design Industry Predictions for 2015,” augmented reality (AR) platforms like Magic Leap and Microsoft Hololens and virtual…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Jay Quercia
Brooklyn-based freelance illustrator and animator Jay Quercia updates with a slick new site and a boatload of new projects. I’ve had the privilege of working closely with Jay, and time and…
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Joe Donaldson • 10 years ago
Motion design education: MoGraph Mentor
[…] with Motion Design Education,” looked at challenges facing students and educators through the lens of brick-and-mortar design schools. But over the last 20 years, online programs…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Kenesha Sneed updates
Lovely illustrations by Kenesha Sneed.
Igor Sordokhonov • 9 years ago