SXSW 2015 Gaming Awards
Working only with dots, lines and squares, Imaginary Forces’ Jeremy Cox and friends crafted a abstract homage to the history of video gamings for the…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Semi-Permanent 2015 Opening Titles
Raoul Marks (a frequent collaborator with Patrick Clair at Elastic), directed a goosebump-inducing title sequence for Semi-Permanent 2015. In Marks’ words: A surreal trip. An allegory…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Behind the Scenes: “Donning the Digital Mask: Anonymous”
The infamous group of hackers that identify themselves as “Anonymous” are, as their name suggests, incredibly hard to pin down. They’ve targeted racists, terrorists and pedophiles. They’ve brought…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
True Detective Season 2 Main Titles
Director Patrick Clair, Lead Animator/Compositor Raoul Marks and the rest of the team at Elastic strike again for HBO’s True Detective. The title sequence for the first…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Design I/O: Connected Worlds
Online, it’s hard to get a sense of the visceral impact that large-scale interactive works can have on users. You lose the immersion factor, and…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Colin Hesterly directs Škoda “Tour De France”
Director Colin Hesterly crafted a charming hand-drawn tale of Škoda inspired by vintage automobile advertising and the Czech car manufacturer’s own 120 year history. Not To…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Call for Entries: LoopdeLoop x Animade
Animation and interactive design studio Animade is once again hosting LoopdeLoop – an international, community-picked animation screening. Following the fantastic success of London’s “Empathy”-themed debut…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
[Detroit] Mograph Mondays July
Attention Detroit-area motion designers: Mograph Mondays July will be Monday, July 27 at 7:30pm. From the Facebook event page: We’re at a new venue this…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Anh Vu launches a new website
Anh Vu launches a new website.
Igor Sordokhonov • 9 years ago
Virtual reality is not filmmaking
Let’s agree on something: 360-degree video presented inside a virtual reality headset isn’t really virtual reality. It’s a novel, sometimes powerful experience, but it’s not what makes VR arguably the most…
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Justin Cone • 9 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…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
School Profile: Savannah College of Art & Design
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of school profiles we’ll be sharing on Motionographer. The following profile was compiled in August, 2015. Since…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
The Genius of Play
Working with Mash Studio, Tom Rainford focused his directorial talents on The Genius of Play, a 9-part animation series for for the Toy Industry Association. Each of the 9…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
“Seed,” a surreal trip powered by photoscanned objects
Munich-based Aixsponza (“eks-sponza”) broke out their entire arsenal of CG weaponry for “Seed,” a surreal journey featuring everything from photoreal retro electronics to spooky, 3D-scanned humans…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Truffle Pig, an other-worldly virtual reality experience from Gentleman Scholar
LA-based Gentleman Scholar have joined the growing number of animation studios seduced by the creative possibilities (and technical challenges) of virtual reality as a storytelling…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Gretel’s Fox College Football package is all kinds of smart
NY-based Gretel produces some of the most consistently well-designed brand work of any studio in the US. Their latest toolkit for Fox College Football is no exception.…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
frankenSim, a weirdly entertaining web toy from Animade
Born from a collaboration between Animade’s interactive and animation teams, frankenSim is a colorful web toy masquerading as a monstrous operating system. In part, frankenSim is…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Tako Faito!
Giant Ant just released an eye-popping, action-packed in-house short, “Tako Faito!” We wanted to push our cel character animation in a character-driven piece—in this case,…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Imaginary Forces and Peepshow Collective take home 2015 Emmys
Imaginary Forces snagged an Emmy for Outstanding Title Design with their work on the TV series, Manhattan. This is the studio’s third Emmy for title design; their…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Watching Glean Keane draw in virtual reality is amazing
Legendary animator Glen Keane is famous for his work on Disney classics like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Pocahontas. Despite his notoriety as a traditional…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
A horde of humans obeys the “Witch Doctor” in this creepy music video
The concept is simple: Dutch rock band De Staat’s lead singer, Torre Florim, stands in the center of a throng of shirtless men, who seem obey his…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Uncovering the Grammar of VR with Saschka Unseld
The emerging master of virtual reality storytelling, Saschka Unseld, is back again. As always, he delivers practical insights for the evolving art form of real-time storytelling, gleaned…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Ash Thorp remixes Adobe in this psychedelic journey through the creative process
Take an inter-dimensional voyage through the creative process with Ash Thorp's latest for Adobe
Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Interview with Johnny Kelly: Dropbox “Creative Freedom”
Johnny Kelly’s approach can best be described using the principle of Occam’s Razor. In short, if all things are considered equal, the simplest solution is…
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Joe Donaldson • 9 years ago
