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

The (In)famous Craigslist Post

The text below was originally posted on Craigslist (and quickly removed by admins) in response to the ridiculous job offers there soliciting creative services for… Read more

Justin Cone • 18 years ago

AE to C4D: A new (more comprehensive) solution

Some of you may be familiar with Paul Tuersley’s excellent scripts allowing for the importation of cameras and other objects from After Effects into Cinema… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Encoding Video for the Web with QuickTime Pro

One of the things we get asked about all the time is how to properly compress video for the web. Dozens of books and technical… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 years ago

Kitteh Kitteh!!

UPDATE: 2 more items are added to the Q&A section, the result of a few readers’ additional query which I followed up with Sam. Sorry… Read more

Lilian Darmono • 15 years ago

Ned Wenlock: “Apache” for Danger Beach

What was the concept behind the spinning environment in the piece? I had a rough, hazy idea for what happens in the video based on… Read more

Brandon Lori • 13 years ago

SXSW 2012: Beauty is Embarrassing

Disclaimer: Wayne White was a speaker at the 2011 F5 festival. His talk there makes an appearance at the end of this film. We covered… Read more

Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago

Blend Manifesto

From the candy coated palette to its cheery metaphors of rainbows and confetti, the manifesto video for the upcoming Blend conference is bubbling over with the… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

School Profile: Ringling College of Art & Design

Our second school profile looks at Ringling College of Art & Design's Motion Design program

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

Gunner + Blend = 🔥

Every so often, the stars collide. This time those stars are the indelible team behind Gunner and the ever-popular Blend Fest!

Joe Donaldson • 5 years ago

Promax|BDA State of Design 2008

For those of you who attended my Promax|BDA State of Design presentation, I hope it was worth your time and that you had as much… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 years ago

Seagulls Fly “Adobe CS5 – Production Premium”

Q&A with Seagulls Fly by Michelle Higa, with help from Boca Ceravolo and Bran Dougherty-Johnson Can you talk a bit about the brief – was… Read more

Michelle Higa Fox • 14 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

Poland rising: Juice studio explains why we’ll be seeing more Polish talent soon

Poland is bristling with CG talent, and our interview with Juice studio explains why. We also dig into the technical details behind the promotional short,… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

The Epic Doc Interview

THE EPIC DOC INTERVIEW The following is an interview with Varathit Uthaisri, (“Tu”), the Director of Google’s “The Epic Docs” animation, a DemoSlam campaign project,… Read more

Lauren Indovina • 14 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

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

From motion design to game design: In-depth process behind Specimen

“I wanted to be a beginner again and feel like I was growing.”  Those words from designer/director Erica Gorochow encapsulate the primary motivation behind deciding… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 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

Making the Motionographer Patreon launch video

We go deep with Michelle Higa Fox (Slanted Studios) and Erica Gorochow (PepRally) about the making of the Motionographer launch video for its Patreon campaign.… Read more

Justin Cone • 8 years ago

Personal Portfolio Round-Up

It's the end of the year, and everyone's relaunching their personal sites. Here are a few that have popped up on our radar.

Staff • 8 years ago