Mass Animation = Mass Exploitation?
When Mass Animation announced their goal of creating a CG short film by “crowd-sourcing” the animation to a global community of thousands of animators, I…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Review: Visual Effects for Directors
I have to admit that I was wary of reviewing Hollywood Camera Work’s Visual Effects for Directors. When the package arrived, I groaned. Seven DVDs.…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Tanqueray “3 Glasses”
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Tanqueray_3Glasses__Motionographer.mov 720 405] Credits W+K AMSTERDAM Creative Directors: Jeff Kling and John Norman Copywriter: Hector Muelas and Brandon Davis Art Director: Mark Sloan and Sezay…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Michele D’Auria: Honda “The Dream Comes True”
Michele D’Auria’s ambitious mini-bio of Soichiro Honda is full of jewel-toned palettes and beautiful illustrations that relate the genesis of the Honda brand with heart-felt…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Asif Mian for 1st Ave Machine: ReRun
Like a bat out of hell, Asif Mian laces up, and breaks away with ReRun. Hatched straight from the lab at 1st Ave Machine, ReRun…
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Brandon Lori • 15 years ago
SpecialGuest/Vinicius Costa: Zune HD
1st Ave Machine‘s colorful alter ego, SpecialGuest, presents a new spot for Zune HD. This spot is Vinicius Costa‘s commercial directorial debut with SpecialGuest, following…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 15 years ago
It’s business time; Blackfish for HEC
Not so long back, commercials for seats of higher learning were composed of shots of the less scruffy bits of a campus, where clean-cut bright…
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Simon Robson • 15 years ago
Minivegas Does It In Realtime
London-based directing collective, Mini Vegas, not only works on animation projects; they also do computer programming and run their own art gallery. To bring all…
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Mate Steinforth • 15 years ago
Encyclopedia Pictura Asks, How Will You Create The Universe?
Encyclopedia Pictura has struck again! The directing trio recently finished a personal animation entitled, “How Will You Create the Universe?”, inspired by the creature evolution…
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Jon Saunders • 15 years ago
Onesize: Playground Titles
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/PlaygroundsTitle_H264.mov 900 506] Onesize creative director Rogier Hendriks: We ended up with the idea to have two fighters on a children’s playground. Kind of a…
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Jon Saunders • 15 years ago
Gravity: Pelephone “Music”
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pelephone_music_eng.mov 720 576] Israel’s Gravity strikes again for telecom Pelephone and agency Adler, Chomsky & Warshavsky. As with previously posted work (here and here), “Music”…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Hornet & The Decemberists
We recently posted a trailer for Hornet’s visual-collaboration with The Decemberists. However, off the tails of Monday’s premier at UCLA’s Royce Hall, it seemed appropriate…
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Matt Lambert • 15 years ago
Halogen: Branding a Network from the Ground Up
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Halogen-IDs2.mov 785 441] It’s not every day that a new network is launched. And it’s not every day that the network has a strong social…
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Dominique Elliott • 15 years ago
Tim Bollinger: Between
Hot off the festival circuit, Tim Bollinger of Via Grafik recently shared his latest short “Between” with us. This dark, surreal piece travels through grounds…
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Matt Lambert • 15 years ago
Ben & Julia: Dove Nets
Updated with Q&A A couple of weeks ago I posted a music video by Ben & Julia for The Main Drag‘s song ‘Dove Nets’. Ben…
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Lilian Darmono • 15 years ago
Elastic https://s35726.pcdn.co/ A52: Honda Accord “Instruments”
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/instr-43.mov 720 540] Credits Project Name: Honda Accord Crosstour “Instruments” Running Time: :30 Release Date: 11.15.09 Client: Honda Advertising Agency: RPA Chief Creative Officer: David…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Mass Market: Air Force “Csar”
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/CSAR_60.mov 848 480] Title: Csar Client: United States Air Force Agency: GSD&M Idea City, Austin Executive Creative Director: Mark Taylor Group Creative Directors: Tom Gilmore,…
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Brandon Lori • 15 years ago
Elastic/a52: Honda “Boxes”
Elastic/a52 releases another colorful component of the Honda Accord Crosstour campaign for agency RPA. Directed by Andy Hall, “Boxes” builds on the lively minimalism of…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
1stAveMachine / Aaron Duffy: Google Chrome Features
Using the same camera perspective trick employed by weareom for their “Chop Cup” viral (or sidewalk artist Julian Beever or Salvador Dalí or countless others,…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Stardust: “BIG Magic” ID’s
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ID-Montage-v6.mov 768 576] CREDITS Client Reliance Big Broadcasting, Mumbai, India Project “Big Magic” Production Company Stardust Studios, NY Director/Creative Director Alan Bibby Executive Producer…
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Brandon Lori • 15 years ago
Elastic: Honda “Snowtrip”
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Elastic_Honda_Snow_Trip_.mov 720 405] Credits: Elastic: Honda Crosstour “Snow Trip” Delivered Project: Honda Crosstour “Snow Trip” :30 Delivery Type:TVC HD, SD Release Date: 01.07.10 (Snow Trip)…
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Brandon Lori • 15 years ago
Bats by Mighty Nice and We Buy Your Kids
Nexus directors Mighty Nice recently collaborated with illustration duo We Buy Your Kids and animated a trippy music video for Paul Dempsey. The enigmatic tale…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Motion Theory Decodes Beauty
Complexity amongst simplicity, and technology behind raw beauty are the building blocks for Motion Theory’s latest hit for Buick and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Directed…
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Matt Lambert • 15 years ago
Bob Nelson on Joining Eyeball
With 25 years of ad industry experience under his belt, Bob Nelson recently joined New York City-based design studio Eyeball as President. Given his ties…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago