Micaël Reynaud: Amalgamation
Winner of the best use of displacement map/compound blur ever — Micaël Reynaud, with portraits by Michael Jang. Also available as an animated gif, of…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago
Daniel Zhang Reel 2012
Excellent sense of timing in Daniel Zhang’s 2012 reel.
Daniel Coutinho • 12 years ago
ManvsMachine for Science Network
London-based ManvsMachine creates a series of first-class ID’s for Discovery’s Science Network under the concept: “Question Everything”. Credits on the site.
Daniel Coutinho • 12 years ago
Classic Quickie: Chris Casady’s FX for TRON (1982)
Motionographer Classic Quickie: Chris Casady’s effects animation for TRON (1982). Read more about Chris’s amazing work in this short retrospective.
Matt Hunter Ross • 12 years ago
Vimeo’s New Features Aim to Put Money in Your Pocket
In case you hadn’t noticed, nearly every video we share on Motionographer is hosted on Vimeo. A lot of the work we show is created…
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Justin Cone • 12 years ago
Digital Currency and You.
As our industry changes, it’s important to keep an eye on how trends in the wider world can affect us. While Motionographer does not specifically…
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Elliot Blanchard • 11 years ago
Leonardo da Vinci Was a Loser
Success is a slippery term. How do you define success for yourself?
Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Destiny: Mars Opening Sequence, Q&A with the Directors
Prologue's opener for "Destiny" kicks off one of the most anticipated games of 2014. Motionographer goes deep with its co-directors, Ilya V. Abulkhanov and Simon…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures
Stanford design instructor John Edmark has rethought the zoetrope with beautiful 3D-printed sculptures that animate when filmed in sync with a strobe light. Explains Edmark: These are…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Motionographer Podcast: Making “Anomaly”
Set against the space-race canvas of the 1960’s, Anomaly is inspired by the traditional Christmas Nativity and explores, through a modern-day lens, the events of…
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Brian Gossett • 9 years ago
In Pieces: A rare specimen of CSS-based animation
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) started as a way to conveniently manage the appearance of images and type across an entire website. Since 1996, CSS has…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Kung Fury
As a child of the 80s, there are three things that course through my blood: buddy cop films, martial arts flicks and Tang. Kung Fury, a…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Lessons learned: Daniel Coutinho’s journey from Brazil to Buck
In 2011, Daniel Coutinho left his family, his home and his girlfriend in pursuit of a dream. Now, as a staff animator at Buck —…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
School Profile: Savannah College of Art & Design
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of school profiles we’ll be sharing on Motionographer. The following profile was compiled in August, 2015. Since…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Ascent from Akeron motion comic
We don’t typically follow comics, but Ascent from Akeron caught our attention for a couple reasons. It’s an exceptionally well-crafted motion comic, a once experimental…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
School Profile: CalArts
Conceived by Walt Disney in 1960 and established through a merger of two older art schools, CalArts is one of the nation's premiere institutions for…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
The key to Facebook Reactions? Animation (of course).
"Early versions were static and we knew animation would be key in making them more expressive. "
Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Animade launches Boords storyboarding tool
The wizards at Animade recently released Boords, a simple, web-based tool for sharing storyboards.
Justin Cone • 8 years ago
VR without goggles: “Field Trip to Mars” sends a souped up school bus to space
Winning 19 awards at Cannes last month, "Field Trip to Mars" is an innovative group VR experience powered by stunning real-time visuals and a bus-load…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Step by Step: Locked and Loading
We are thrilled to bring you the work of David Brodeur, otherwise known as Locked and Loading, for this month's Step by Step profile. David…
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Joe Donaldson • 7 years ago
Personal Portfolio Round-Up
It's the end of the year, and everyone's relaunching their personal sites. Here are a few that have popped up on our radar.
Staff • 7 years ago
Mistborn
JM Blay's Magical Quest: Translating Mistborn from Page to Screen - Breaking Free from Constraints to Unleash Creativity
Staff • 4 weeks ago
Anthony Furlong
Over the last year and a half, Anthony Furlong has worked professionally while finishing up a degree at The Art Center. Thanks to that experience…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
zspace for ABC1
G’Day from Sydney, with news from my adopted home town of a major new project for Australia’s first channel ABC1, orchestrated by local moving image…
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Simon Robson • 16 years ago
