One Day on Earth / 12.12.12
By the time this post goes live, One Day on Earth’s third installment will have begun somewhere on this crazy planet of ours. On December…
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Justin Cone • 11 years ago
Moniker: Do Not Touch
Amsterdam-based Moniker (Roel Wouters, Luna Maurer, Jonathan Puckey) have created a Do Not Touch – a crowd-sourced music video for Light Light’s Kilo. “After 50…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago
Q&A: Throne “Tharsis Sleeps”
What says "heavy metal" more than a few thousand frames of animated embroidery? Here's how it was done.
Andrew Montague • 10 years ago
CypherAudio’s John Black reflects on 15 years of sound design for motion
Filmmaker George Lucas famously declared, “The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.” Everyone I know who’s crafted a film or animation or game…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Interactive experiences at the human scale: Making CenterStage with Andrew Bell and Lutz Vogel
It’s rare that a single project can sum up the possibilities for the convergence of motion design and interactive experiences the way that CenterStage does. Created…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Crafting graphics for the Oscars: An interview with Henry Hobson
Like people who tune into the Super Bowl just to watch the ads, I turn on the Oscars just to watch the graphics. The opening…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Q&A: Gergely Wootsch demystifies the Magna Carta
For the British Library’s “Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy” exhibition, director Gergely Wootsch explains the history and importance of the document with his trademark wit and style.…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Elliot Lim: The Wire Homage
What better way to start the first work week of the new year off than with some excellent new work from the multi-talented Elliot Lim for The…
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Joe Donaldson • 8 years ago
NATL UPDTS WTH NW WRK
National Television updates with 3 new pieces As you all know, we really dig Nationals’ work. They’ve update with 3 new spots, which is surprising…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Roses are Blue
Good ol’ friends of tween…it’s been a while… If you have time on your hands and are looking for inspiration and maybe even a few…
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Babe Baker • 18 years ago
Nick Ryan’s “A Lonely Sky”
Dublin-based director Nick Ryan’s new short film, “A Lonely Sky” strikes a chord with me. My brother, father and grandfather are all pilots, so I…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Chatting with The Action Cats
“The Experiment” by The Action Cats Storyboards for “The Experiment” Animatic for “The Experiment” Stop-motion experiments and source footage Back in April, when Adobe and…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Advanced Beauty Podcast
Advanced Beauty is now available as a weekly podcast (link will open in iTunes). We’ve been following Advanced Beauty with great enthusiasm here on Motionographer…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Is It Really All Stop-Motion?
Watch “Building” | Watch “Contents” | Watch “Motor” When I first watched these three commercials by Australian director Liz Murphy and TAXI for RAC Insurance,…
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Boca Ceravolo • 16 years ago
SFW: Diesel XXX
I posted this up as a quickie yesterday, but it has gotten such an amazing response that we have decided to let it bask in…
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Jon Saunders • 16 years ago
nobrain: TF1 Holiday IDs
As a follow up to the smashing TF1 IDs we shared here last month, Paris-based nobrain created Christmas themed versions packed with as much charm…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Poll: Down Time
Based on our previous poll regarding the economy, it seems many people have more spare time on their hands these days. There are a lot…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Radiolab: Visual Experiment 01 “Parabolas”
This one’s definitely not for everyone, but for those of you out there (like me) who are massive fans of the WNYC show Radiolab, you’ll…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
The Hyde Tube
Paris-based production company Mr. Hyde has launched an interesting new initiative, The Hyde Tube, which invites directors anywhere in the world to submit their work…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Smith and Foulkes: Comcast “Sing-a-Long”
For a series of four spots, Nexus Productions‘ Oscar-nominated directing duo Smith & Foulkes built a campy world brimming with detail and color for Comcast…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Mainframe Rebrand Nickelodeon
London based Mainframe recently showed what they are capable of with an epic rebranding of Nickelodeon. Unusually for Nick, they let the design take the…
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James Wignall • 15 years ago
Making Of: Seattle International Film Festival 2009
Our previous post about Digital Kitchen’s work for the Seattle International Film Festival tickled my curiosity: How exactly were the animation rigs set up? How…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Google’s Chrome Shorts
Google has just launched a YouTube page with 11 short films to promote the launch of their new web browser, Chrome. Similar to BNS’s ‘Feature…
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Matt Lambert • 15 years ago
Motion Graphics meeting at SIGGRAPH 2009, Tuesday, August 4th
Photo by eduardoizquierdo Gil Irizarry sent us a notice about a motion graphics meeting at SIGGRAPH. Check it out: There will be a birds-of-a-feather meeting…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago