Get Your Shit Together

I’ll admit it. I’m a voyeur: Every chance I get, I ogle other people’s After Effects project files.   What I find just as fascinating as the… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 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

Entertainment lawyer Jeffrey Rose on The Collective

The Collective Podcast hosted entertainment lawyer Jeffrey Rose to cover a number of issues important to anyone interested in the business of design, including: details on forming an LLC… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

The Mill tackles monstrous VR challenges for Google ATAP

The pioneers of VR continue making progress, despite (or perhaps because of) the incredible technical and creative challenges it poses.  One of the latest projects… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

Interview: The Lessons Behind We Are Royale’s Manifesto

Surviving eight years as a motion design studio is no easy feat. In addition to riding the unpredictable ebb and flow of service work, motion design… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

The long journey to “Lostopolis,” an interview with PandaPanther

While many commercial animation shops dream of developing feature length films — and building valuable intellectual property in the process — very few actually get… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

The Moth Collective: Modern Love

At this point anyone who follows my posts will think I sound like a broken record, but… The Moth Collective does it again! This time… Read more

Joe Donaldson • 9 years ago

Sehsucht explains how they created a real-time, VR-friendly advent calendar

Sehsucht explains how they created real-time WebGL animations for Google Cardboard with online tools (and a good dose of design and animation mastery).

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

Making “Uncanny Valley,” an eye-popping sci-fi short about a very possible future

The sci-fi short "Uncanny Valley" presents a grim but very possible future in an eye-popping style laced with beautiful VFX work. Our chat with the… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

How to make your skin crawl, the story of “Teeth” with Holbrooks

After a successful run in the festival circuit, including a premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and a Special Jury Recognition award from the… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

A mobile game made entirely out of clay?

The visuals for Tiny Passengers, a new mobile puzzle game from Shape Minds launching in iTunes today, were created almost entirely in clay. Check out… Read more

Justin Cone • 8 years ago

About the Motionographer facelift

We're calling the new look a "facelift," not a redesign. We're just trying to address a few specific issues with the old design that have… Read more

Justin Cone • 8 years ago

“A Love Story” for Chipotle

Directed by Saschka Unseld ("The Blue Umbrella"), the latest Chipotle short sticks to a proven approach.

Justin Cone • 8 years ago

Giant Ant, three films & three good causes

There’s no doubt that the vast majority of people in our industry have witnessed and felt the impact of Giant Ant. In a very short… Read more

Joe Donaldson • 8 years ago

Hilarious #TRUMPFACTS turn the Donald’s own language against him

Using Donald Trump soundbites as source material, London-based Cub Studio launched an ongoing series of snappy animations lampooning the Republican candidate.

Justin Cone • 8 years ago

Step by Step: Simon Appel

Ever wonder how to animate on an iPad? Well, you're in luck with this new Step by Step featuring the talented Simon Appel.

Joe Donaldson • 7 years ago

Apple TV+ The Dark Matter Title Sequence: How We Created It Three Times

Dark Matter. Based on the novel of the same name by Blake Crouch, this sci-fi series promises to take viewers on a thrilling journey through… Read more

Staff • 4 months ago

Going Deeper: Modest Mouse “Whale Song”

Nando Costa, director with Bent Image Lab, recently filled us in on the multi-faceted production challenges that went into the creation of Modest Mouse’s “Whale… Read more

Justin Cone • 15 years ago

Questioning the Freelance Dilemma

A recent article at Animation World Network has stirred up many passionate comments from freelance visual effects artists in the industry as well as a… Read more

Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 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… Read more

Justin Cone • 15 years ago

WeWereMonkeys : Coheed and Cambria: The Broken

WeWereMonkeys were so struck by the energy of the new Coheed and Cambria song, “The Broken,” that it inspired them to create an epic sci-fi… Read more

Staff • 15 years ago

Brand New School Opens London Studio

When we got wind of Brand New School launching a new London Studio, we wanted to share the news with readers. According to the press… Read more

Brandon Lori • 14 years ago

Scale, Light, and Form: Finding Creative Inspiration in Architecture

By Vikkal Parikh, Founder and Creative Director, Ataboy Studios The practice of motion design is, as its title suggests, a thing that is constantly changing… Read more

OOY • 3 years ago

BLACKLIST DIRECTOR CISMA TAKES IT TO THE BASKET FOR ESPN AND THE NBA

NEW YORK – January 8, 2007– Psyop’s (www.psyop.tv) new design, animation and mixed media company Blacklist (www.blacklist.tv) recently completed production on a package for ESPN-NBA… Read more

Justin Cone • 18 years ago