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… Read more
Justin Cone • 10 years ago

Ed

 Cross the uncanny valley with “Ed.” Created by Chris Jones with Lightwave, Sculptris and Krita and composited with Davinci Resolve Lite (and a boatload of… Read more
Justin Cone • 10 years ago

Psyop tri-awesomeness

 Psyop updates with three 2D spots for the holiday season. Airbnb “Walls and Chains” Target + Toms “One for One for All” Tiffany & Co.… Read more
Igor Sordokhonov • 10 years ago

Playgrounds Festival Titles 2014

 Again, the Playgrounds Festival was a blast. Solid line-up, nice presentations and a good overall atmosphere. This year, Playgrounds had not one but two title sequences.… Read more
Harm van Zon • 10 years ago

Illuminate by Nicolas Ménard

 Nicolas Ménard brings us Illuminate, a music video for Tourist featuring Years and Years and his first piece under Nexus Productions. Following his recent Young Guns 12… Read more
Joe Donaldson • 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… Read more
Justin Cone • 10 years ago

Motion design education: MoGraph Mentor

 My recent op-ed post, “6 Problems 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… Read more
Justin Cone • 9 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… Read more
Justin Cone • 9 years ago

My New Animation

 Japanese director/animator Masanobu Hiraoka’s latest short film, titled simply “My New Animation,” is a hypnotic study of division and collision. Created in a style consistent… Read more
Justin Cone • 9 years ago

30 Seconds of Sound

 Musician and sound designer Simon Pyke (Freefarm) recently released round two of 30 Seconds of Sound Visualised.
Justin Cone • 9 years ago

Process: The Feel Good Bakery

 weareseventeen's adorable spot for The Feel Good Bakery is a break from the conceptual CG work for which they're known. The spot's director explains why… Read more
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… Read more
Justin Cone • 9 years ago