Bitstate: Slamdance Fest Opener

The Ebeling Group’s Bitstate worked up an intense hand-wrought opener for the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival. All the frame-by-frame sequences add a gritty texture to… Read more

Digital Kitchen for Target

Watch “Art Transports” | Watch “Art Imagines” The latest two outdoor Target promos from Digital Kitchen’s Chicago office couldn’t be more different. “Art Transports” is… Read more

Peter Saville: Optical Illusions

This Transport for London PSA proves that simplicity can create a serious impact (pardon the pun). There are two levels of contrast working in favor… Read more

Buck: New Site, New Reels

Buck has refreshed their web presence and added not one, but two new reels. Their main reel, weighing in a just over two minutes, is… Read more

Lo-Fi Tron

This thing has been burning up the interwebs. It’s a shot-for-shot recreation of the famous light cycle race form Tron, made with cardboard and stop-action.… Read more

Flying North For the Winter

[flv:http://motionograph.wpengine.com/media/passionpictures/Penguins.flv 468 263] Watch high-res on Beam.tv | Watch on BBC News This delightful promo for BBC’s iPlayer is a perfectly executed bit of April… Read more

Dreamers Ink Aesthetics Updates

Dreamers Ink Aesethetics (a.k.a. Mitchell Paone) has updated with an epic new reel and some sick new design work. I’m so impressed by Mitch’s range;… Read more

Interview: Garson Yu of yU+co

“300” main-on-end titles Storyboards for “300” main-on-end titles Animatic for “300” sequence “Bee Movie” end credit sequence Storyboards for “Bee Movie” end credit sequence “Enchanted”… Read more

Superfad: Sprint Credits

Goodby, Silverstein & Partners Client: Sprint (Nextel) Product/Division: Nextel Direct Connect Co-Chairman / Creative Director: Rich Silverstein Creative Director(s): Christian Haas, Franklin Tipton Group/Assoc. Creative… Read more

More Brazilian Action: Vitor Cervi

While you’re waiting for the recently posted Dogday site to recover from its bandwidth woes, check out Vitor Cervi. There’s some overlap between the two:… Read more

Mike Tucker: Ludosabato

Mike Tucker’s Ludosabato launched today, and I’m loving it. You’re dropped into a minimal universe created completely with Papervision3D and a ton of trigonometry, left… Read more

Drench Spring Water Advert

Thunderbird’s Brains shows us what he’s made of in this nice advert for Drench Spring Water (thanks Jonny!)

JL Design: HiHD

It’s been a while since we’ve posted JL Design, but Johnason Lo and company have been busy building some beautiful IDs for HiHD, Taiwan’s first… Read more

Gobelins: Blind Spot

The students of Gobelins never fail to impress. “Blind Spot” isn’t new, but it has been nominated as a Best Student Piece for SIGGRAPH 2008.… Read more

Twenty 120 Films Are Online

Wait no more, this year’s Twenty 120 films are now online for full appreciation! In this second edition, directors take off where they left off… Read more

Tyquane Wright: Dive

To wrap up his time at NYU’s Digital Imaging and Design program, Tyquane Wright created “Dive,” an abstract deconstruction of his creative process. Mike Genato’s… Read more

“Ideation” by Jeremiah Dickey

Jeremiah Dickey’s “Ideation” is a beautiful refashioning of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave (via Cartoon Brew)

The Windmill

What better place to stage a recreation of Don Quixote’s windmill battle than in Holland, where students Heerko Groefsema and Giso Spijkerman are studying Communication… Read more

Eyeball: Project Earth

Eyeball recently posted some new work, including a svelt promo for the Discovery Channel’s “Project Earth.” The look of the spot is a welcome departure… Read more