Jack Black explains why he loves California, and it is awesome
Nicolas Ménard is a graphic designer and animator with a distinctive voice. Jack Black is a comedian and musician with a distinctive take on humor.…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
What it takes to be “Original”
What is originality? Does it even exist? If so, how can we be original? Those are the questions that haunted Toronto-based designer Andrew Vucko as…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Interactive experiences at the human scale: Making CenterStage with Andrew Bell and Lutz Vogel
[…] person might be thinking: Is that screen really touchable? You might touch a big wall that’s not interactive, because you can’t clearly tell. We actually had…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Tendril, relaunching and repositioning in a shifting landscape
[…] with. Of course none of this would be possible without the amazing support we have from our reps in the US via Blacklist, Passion…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Motion and code: Getting to know Lucas Zanotto
Italian-born designer/animator Lucas Zanotto’s career is as varied and playful as his creations. Moving seamlessly between analogue and digital techniques, he’s created commercials, short films,…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Game of Thrones: Sword Experience
The wizards at Red Paper Heart just returned from San Diego Comic-Con, arguably the largest orgy of geek culture in the world, where eager fans…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Tako Faito!
Giant Ant just released an eye-popping, action-packed in-house short, “Tako Faito!” We wanted to push our cel character animation in a character-driven piece—in this case,…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Aardman Nathan Love is born
[…] is to set up a skeletal “satellite” operation and the funnel work back to headquarters. That’s not the case with this deal, says Aardman.…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
How to make your skin crawl, the story of “Teeth” with Holbrooks
After a successful run in the festival circuit, including a premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and a Special Jury Recognition award from the…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
FITC Toronto 2016 Titles
If you only watch one video today, make it this one.
Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Looking back, moving on…
[…] the future is uncapped, and I’m excited to see what happens next. Thank you Before Motionographer, there was Tween, the scrappy blog that served…
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Justin Cone • 6 years ago
Technical Breakdown: Seeing Without Sight
[…] their best creative concepts and approaches, then select the best idea from a plethora of possibilities. During this process, my team and I designed…
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John Likens • 3 years ago
Am I talking poetry or am I talking business?
A leader of the heart: Are you one of them? #5 is a series of compact, heart-charged articles where executive coach Marie Reig Florensa –…
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Marie Reig Florensa • 6 months ago
Tatiana Arocha
I know Tatiana was posted as a quickie a while back, but I think she deserves some 15 minutes of feature list fame. I love…
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Jon Saunders • 17 years ago
Shilo: Winning the War
Watch “The War” Hand-drawn storyboards Shots from the blue screen shoot Style frames Stills from the finished product Motionographer’s Jon Saunders interviewed Andre Stringer and…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Tronic & Marco Brambilla – Spec Ops Game Trailer + Q&A
[…] a more essential component to successful advertising, and what I learn in the commercial realm benefits my personal work – so I think it…
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Jake Sargeant • 15 years ago
VR storytelling wars begin, but will anyone be watching?
As predicted in my earth-shattering post, “6 Motion Design Industry Predictions for 2015,” augmented reality (AR) platforms like Magic Leap and Microsoft Hololens and virtual…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Making “Uncanny Valley,” an eye-popping sci-fi short about a very possible future
The sci-fi short "Uncanny Valley" presents a grim but very possible future in an eye-popping style laced with beautiful VFX work. Our chat with the…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Making the Motionographer Patreon launch video
We go deep with Michelle Higa Fox (Slanted Studios) and Erica Gorochow (PepRally) about the making of the Motionographer launch video for its Patreon campaign.…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Interview: Lobo Does Dupont
A series of mood boards (PDF) The whole set of mood boards in one go Animatic, showing influences from Maeda and Vasarely (QT 6) An…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
STUDIOaka: VARMINTS Trailer & New Site
Studio AKA, the London-based masters of the quirky character, have finally launched a new site and also posted this trailer for their newest short film…
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Matt Lambert • 16 years ago
Back to Beijing with Eric Lerner
A couple weeks ago, we posted Eric Lerner’s fantastic Olympics advert for Coke. We recently had a chance to catch up with him for a…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Boolab Steps Over to the Dark Side
Spanish production company boolab was chosen by Road agency to create a series of five short films for the Black Thinking website, an initiative of…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
1st Ave. Machine: Audi ‘Unboxed’
[…] printed frames of the animatic to estimate how the character would look on the form. When a piece of the 2D animation was finished…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 16 years ago