Justin Weber/MAKE: “Juiced and Jazzed”
Justin Weber makes his directorial debut with “Juiced and Jazzed,” accompanied by the forces of Minnesota’s MAKE Visual, as they blast us back to a…
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Staff • 15 years ago
By and By Q&A
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/LayLow_HD_960.mov 960 540] How did you come up with the concept for this music video? As always, we draw inspiration from the song we’re working…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Ben & Julia: Dove Nets
Updated with Q&A A couple of weeks ago I posted a music video by Ben & Julia for The Main Drag‘s song ‘Dove Nets’. Ben…
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Lilian Darmono • 15 years ago
Meindbender Duplicates for Cartoon Network
Meindbender Animation Studio in Sweden has really done a nice job for Cartoon Network. They’ve reproduced stop motion-like animation with a real clay feeling—but with…
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Harm van Zon • 15 years ago
VFX Townhall Recap and Links
Lee Stranahan’s Monday night VFX Townhall: The State of The Industry was a big success. Not in providing a solution, but in starting a discussion,…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Kenichi Tanaka: Japan-A Strange Country
UPDATE: English VO version found on youtube! Thanks for the info, tvp. Kenichi Tanaka made this thesis piece to show his countrymen that things that…
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Lilian Darmono • 15 years ago
Friday Mix: Radium Audio
Wake up. It’s Friday. The weekend is so near you can smell it. Granted, it smells like beer and cigarettes, but you still need it.…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Alex Roman: Silestone “Above Everything Else”
When we first shared Alex Roman’s The Third&Seventh over a year ago, everyone was stunned by the photorealism of his CG worlds. With his latest…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Charlex: Shape Shifter
Charlex has recently created Shape Shifter, a larger-than-life film that’s been attracting remarkable attention online since its release. From the pieces of an exploded car,…
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Daniel Coutinho • 14 years ago
ELASTIC: GAME OF THRONES
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Elastic_GOT_FS.mov 983 552] Angus, first off we wanted to congratulate you for the well deserved Oscar for your hard work alongside Kirk Baxter for The…
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Brian Gossett • 13 years ago
Megaforce: Is Tropical: The Greeks
Here’s the new music promo from Megaforce. It feels like the brilliant French trio have really exceeded themselves on this one, straight off the back…
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David Wilson • 13 years ago
Guilherme Marcondes: Bunraku Opening Sequence
For the opening title sequence of Guy Moshe’s film Bunraku, Guilherme Marcondes introduces us to the Bunraku alternate universe — from pre-historic animals fighting for…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
2011 Ottawa International Animation Festival: Student Films
I had the pleasure of attending the 2011 Ottawa International Animation Festival this year. For me, Ottawa is one of the most refreshing events of…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer “unnamed soundsculpture” and Brian Oakes “Marie”
These two pieces use a Kinect and a dancer’s performance as the starting point for abstract imagery. Both are lovely, but the approaches evoke very…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
Michel Gondry and Boris Vian: a match made in heaven
There has been much talk this week about the woes of the visual effects industry. Snubs at the Oscars did not go unnoticed, including that…
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Dominique Elliott • 12 years ago
Bradley G Munkowitz: Oblivion Screen Graphics
Joseph Kosinski’s latest feature, Oblivion, releases today in the US, and with it comes an impressive onslaught of screen graphics directed by Bradley “Gmunk” Munkowitz.…
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Justin Cone • 12 years ago
Estelle’s Story
House of Radon for Refugees United in “Estelle’s Story“.
Matt Hunter Ross • 11 years ago
Yurcor/The Mill settlement reached in LA, is NY next?
In California, a class action lawsuit against The Mill and Yurcor has been tentatively settled, striking a major blow against Yurcor’s “Employer of Record” service. The…
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Staff • 11 years ago
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…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Wayne the Stegosaurus
https://vimeo.com/96594572 Hot on the heels of Gentleman Scholar’s Motionpoems short is another one from a small team at The Mill. “Wayne the Stegosaurus” is an…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Glen Keane: Duet
Disney animator Glen Keane creates a moving short film for Google's Spotlight Stories project.
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
Motionographer Podcast: Making “Anomaly”
Set against the space-race canvas of the 1960’s, Anomaly is inspired by the traditional Christmas Nativity and explores, through a modern-day lens, the events of…
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Brian Gossett • 10 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…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago