VFX Online Town Hall Session One: LiveBlog
This will be a liveblog of the VFX Online Town Hall taking place at 7PM PST 03/29/10. Panelists include Chris deFaria, Vice President, Warner Bros.…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Frankie De Leonardis
boolab recently teamed up with agency Young & Rubicam Madrid to create a whimsical three-spot testimonial campaign for financial services company BBVA. Directed by Frankie…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Chicken or Egg?
Noted without comment. John Lewis v. Calzedonia John Lewis by Adam & Eve, London 2010 Calzedonia by ??? 2006 Pedigree vs. Birds Pedigree by TBWA…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago
Bare Bones US Debut
On Tuesday the 29th at NYC’s Envoy Enterprises, London-based art crew, Bare Bones (founded by Harry Malt), will be having their US debut show. After…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
AT-AT Day Afternoon
Patrick Boivin, of recent Iron Baby fame, scores again with a heartwarming tale of AT-AT as man’s best friend. Update: Check out this short making…
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Matt Hunter Ross • 14 years ago
Tuesday McGowan updates
Tuesday McGowan updates with new work.
Staff • 13 years ago
Work/Life: A Conversation with Ash Thorp
A few days ago, we shared the portfolio of designer/illustrator Ash Thorp. Ash recently finished a year-long tour of duty at Prologue, where he crafted much…
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Justin Cone • 13 years ago
Jim Henson for Linit Fabric Finish (1967)
Here’s a classic quickie from Jim Henson, featuring Sir Linit, circa 1967.
Elliot Blanchard • 12 years ago
Virgilio Villoresi: John Mayer “Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967”
Milan-based Virgilio Villoresi uses the pre-cinema technique, ombro cinema, to animate the drawings made by Virginia Mori. Everything was filmed in live-action, no post production…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago
What it takes to be “Original”
What is originality? Does it even exist? If so, how can we be original? Those are the questions that haunted Toronto-based designer Andrew Vucko as…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
67th Primetime Emmy Awards adds Motion Design category
UPDATE: The deadline for entry in the Motion Design category has been extended to May 15th. See below for more details. The Motion Design category…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
On The Back Of A Tiger
One effect that I feel many of us can agree on when working in the commercial world is that it can be a bit of…
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Joe Donaldson • 9 years ago
Psyop jumps in the VR game with “Kismet”
Targeted at higher end VR systems like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, Psyop's "Kismet" is a real-time VR experience that leverages the studio's long-standing…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Making Midwest #4: Team Talk
Join us for the November 3rd event at Mills James from 6-9pm, titled “Team Talk”. Teams/companies will share some recent projects and what went into…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Reliving The Past Motion Awards Winners! | Game of Thrones / Elastic
The Season 8 Game of Thrones title sequence was redesigned to be more narrative, with visual details reflecting the depth and evolution of the story,…
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Staff • 1 month ago
Perception looking for designers
Perception, a streamlined design, editing and effects company in manhattan, is seeking very talented freelance motion graphic and broadcast designers. Candidates MUST have broadcast or…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Two More Envelope-Pushers
If you’ve been reading this site (or Tween) for any time at all, you know I love to talk about the convergence of web and…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
The Eye of the Storm
Well, classes are over and my finals are all turned in. I’m pretty pleased with my progress this quarter, but I’ve got a loooong way…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Non-Native Species / PikaPika
Stardust: Non-Native Species Promoting California Cleanup Day, Stardust was recetly called upon to produced a :30 spot entitled “Non-Native Species”. The character CigEgret makes it’s…
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Onur Aksoy • 18 years ago
Move over Cee-Lo
I recently saw a new music video on the latest edition of Stash for the hip-hop group Subtle, directed by the uber-talented SSSR of passion…
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Tread • 18 years ago
Master Plan: How Google is Going to Dominate the Entire Universe
Carole Guevin over at netdiver.net brought Master Plan to my attention, a visual essay/conspiracy theory about how Google might be evil after all. Maybe I’m…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Just a Friendly Reminder
Just want to remind everybody of a few ground rules that have always been in place at Motionographer. Most of this stuff is on the…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Lucien Superstar
This is not your typical Motionographer feature, but someone known as Boum suprised me with this short and sweet little animated gem on CA forums……
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Babe Baker • 17 years ago
Eatdrink: The Cat State
One thing I learned to appreciate at Offf in Barcelona was the importance of creating simply for the sake of creating. When we let go…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago