Matt Lock: Spinifex’s How to Train Your Dragon
Spinifex Group is an amazing media company focused on interactive projections. In collaboration with Global Creatures, they’ve created a live show for DreamWorks’ How to Train…
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Angelo Collazo • 12 years ago
Buck: Flex Alert
Brainchild and Buck LA have come together to develop a beautiful PSA for California’s Flex Alert program. To help guard against power shortages, this campaign…
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Angelo Collazo • 12 years ago
Review: The Art of Legend of the Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’Hoole
Directed by Zack Snyder (300), Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga-hoole did not fare particularly well at the box office or in critics’…
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Justin Cone • 12 years ago
Kaleb Lechowski: R’ha
Kaleb Lechowski’s “R’ha” ups the ante for solo writer/director/animators, proving that while the barrier to entry for solo animated filmmaking is lower than ever, expectations…
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Justin Cone • 12 years ago
Beakus Studios + Daniel Chester/Moth: The Epistle
Seems only natural that Moth Collective would follow up the fantastic Mad Dogs and Englishmen by working with Beakus Studios on this section from the feature…
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Elliot Blanchard • 12 years ago
Guillermo García Carsí & El Señor Studio: Doomed: a biological cartoon!
Finally online in all its full-length glory, Doomed: a biological cartoon! by Guillermo García Carsí and El Señor Studio introduce us to endearingly bizarre animals…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 12 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
SXSW 2013: What the Leap means to Motion Graphics
I had read about the Leap Motion Controller, but hadn’t seen it in action until SXSW 2013. The super precise motion-sensing device can track up…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago
Blur: League of Legends Cinematic “A Twist of Fate”
It’s getting very hard to stand out in the world of game cinematics. But somehow Blur always manages to pull it off. Case in point,…
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Justin Cone • 11 years ago
Leftchannel: motion 2013 Opener
Columbus-based Leftchannel has been plugging away for over 10 years, but it’s been a while since we’ve posted them on Motionographer. Their recently launched opener…
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Staff • 11 years ago
Louis Morton: Passer Passer
Synaesthesia? Yes, please. Louis Morton‘s Passer Passer caught my eye in Cartoon Brew’s excellent Sundance coverage. It kicks off with echoes of Oskar Fischinger, but…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago
“Black Gold” by PES
PES doesn’t release new work very often, so when he does, we tend to get excited. His latest, “Black Gold,” was commissioned to accompany the…
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Justin Cone • 11 years ago
Giant Ant: Men’s Health Magazine “How a Protein Becomes a Muscle”
Follow ingenious peptides through a visual essay explaining how muscle mass is created in the human body. Illustrations by the inimitable Mike McQuade, directed by…
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Justin Cone • 11 years ago
Steve Scott: Time’s the Charm
The talented Steve Scott returns with this elegantly crafted film for John Lobb via Not To Scale. Steve’s charming illustrations capture the subtle tones of…
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Andrew Montague • 10 years ago
Mike Edel: “The Closer”
“The Closer” is a new song by Mike Edel and a music video created out of collaboration with Jorge R. Canedo Estrada, Henrique Barone, Thanat…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Q&A with Mikey Please: Marilyn Myller
Hornet's Mikey Please chats with us about making the darkly humorous short, "Marilyn Myller"
Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Robot King
This isn’t for everyone, but it’s definitely for me. As a child of the 80s, I grew up watching awesomely terrible animated series like “Voltron”…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Team Lab Exhibits at Japan Society NYC
Tokyo based Team Lab is on display now through January 11 at The Japan Society in NYC. And it is utterly, wonderfully, sublimely, and slowly….Japanese.…
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Dave Skaff • 10 years ago
Get Your Shit Together
I’ll admit it. I’m a voyeur: Every chance I get, I ogle other people’s After Effects project files. What I find just as fascinating as the…
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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
Making “The Wisdom of Pessimism”
For his directorial debut, Claudio Salas took on an ambitious challenge: a 2-minute visual essay for the philosopher Alain de Botton’s School of Life project. What began as…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Interview: Motion design and the Google identity
Google's Jonathan Jarvis tells us how integral motion design was to the recent Google rebrand, why you should give users superpowers and what kind of…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Sehsucht explains how they created a real-time, VR-friendly advent calendar
Sehsucht explains how they created real-time WebGL animations for Google Cardboard with online tools (and a good dose of design and animation mastery).
Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Réka Bucsi: Symphony no. 42
Réka Bucsi's Symphony no. 42 is an illustrated encyclopedia of surrealist black comedy. Think David O'Reilly with a softer side. Watching it feels like a…
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Erica Gorochow • 9 years ago