Saul Bass: Why Man Creates
You’ve probably already seen Saul Bass’ 1968 “Why Man Creates”, but it’s one of those little gems that deserves annual viewing. Sadly, only a five-minute…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Ro Rao for Zune Arts
Curious Pictures’ Ro Rao adds this cute narrative short to the hugely entertaining Zune Arts collection made possible by Microsoft and those cunning curators at…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Psyop: Guinness “Dot” Credits
Client: Diageo Product: Guinness Ale Title: “Dotâ€? Length:00:60 Agengy: IIBBDO, Dublin Creative Director(s): Mal Stevenson Art Directors: Jonathan Cullen. Copywriter: Rory Hamilton Producer: Onagh Carolan…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Capacity Updates
It’s been a while since Capacity has updated—and from them that’s usually a good sign. They’ve just put up some of their recent blood, sweat…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Onitsuka Tiger: Electric Tiger Land
Together with Amsterdam Worldwide, B-Reel directed, animated and produced this colorful spot for Onitsuka Tiger’s new campaign around the theme of “Electric Tiger Land.” It’s…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Elijah Raps for Shilo / Cartoon Network
Shilo recently directed and animated this nice little promo for Cartoon Network. A combination of traditional cel, 2D, 3D animation, together with hand-drawn imagery and…
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James Wignall • 17 years ago
Sherbet/James Wignall for Nova
Agency Young & Rubicam (France) tapped UK-based production house Sherbet to create this narrative short for French radio station Nova. The spot marks the directorial…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Adobe and Cut&Paste: “See What’s Possible”
When I saw that the grand prize for the recently announced “See What’s Possible” Challenge from Adobe and Cut&Paste was $20,000 USD, I did a…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
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…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
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…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
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…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
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…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
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.…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
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…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
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;…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
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”…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
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…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
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:…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
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…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Prologue/Danny Yount: Iron Man Credits
Prologue’s Danny Yount channeled lo-fi 3D schematics and the guitar rock of Black Sabbath for a rollicking Iron Man end credit sequence that is easily…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Drench Spring Water Advert
Thunderbird’s Brains shows us what he’s made of in this nice advert for Drench Spring Water (thanks Jonny!)
James Wignall • 16 years ago
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…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
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.…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
PetPunk: The Magnificient Town of Vilnius
PetPunk’s promo for Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania, is a delightfully cacophonous bit of work. Using just about every imaginable animation technique, the project…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago