More Fallon, More Sony
Fallon’s latest (over-hyped) project for Sony follows a familiar formula: Take an urban setting, flood it with something that would otherwise be unremarkable and set…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
SpecialGuest & 1st Ave Machine: New Work
Special Guest Returns for AutoTrader As a follow-up to their previous AutoTrader UK spot, SpecialGuest has created another CG spot full of the same cheery…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Welcome to WordWorld
I love motion graphics. I hope that’s obvious. But I also love children’s television—the educational kind, not so much the Spongebob Squarepants kind. As an…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Crush: R.E.M. “Hollow Man”
Watching the work of Toronto-based Crush is refreshing. They exercise a decidedly straightforward approach to motion graphics: no 3D (not even 2.5D), no crazy camera…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Passion Pictures: Oxfam “Roar”
As I watched this new Oxfam spot from Passion Pictures directed by SSSR, I was reminded of a recent post I made concerning dynamic typography…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Naked Cie Helps Mika Relax
Paris-based Naked Cie (not to be confused with Nakd) developed some interesting concert visuals for Mika’s performance at the NRJ Music Awards (kind of like…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Kick It into 5th Gear
Matt Lambert recently finished a new project for Discovery Channel Europe. It’s a promo for for a car show, 5th Gear, produced by Frame by…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Prologue/Danny Yount: Iron Man Credits
Prologue’s Danny Yount channeled lo-fi 3D schematics and the guitar rock of Black Sabbath for a rollicking Iron Man end credit sequence that is easily…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
DK hits NYC’s South Street Sea Port
Digital Kitchen teamed up with Wexley School for Girls to create a motion graphics infused sphere that lived on NYC’s South Street Seaport, and was…
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John Cranston • 17 years ago
BNS – Zune “Stacks”
Brand New School releases “Stacks” for Microsoft’s Zune audio player. Says BNS: First we designed twelve albums featuring the most exciting fake artists of our time.…
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Igor Sordokhonov • 17 years ago
Zander Brimijoin and Arthur Jones: Man Man “Mister Jung Stuffed”
If I ever get lucky enough to go to a house-party in Hell, it’s probably going to look like this music video from Zander Brimijoin…
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Boca Ceravolo • 16 years ago
Lacoste: Past, Present and Future
To celebrate Lacoste’s 75th birthday, the company created “Future,” an advert and website that imagines how the game of tennis might be played 75 years…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Media Temple Collective Motion Project ONE
A while back, we announced Media Temple’s first ever Collective Project, and now they’ve posted their favorite submissions on the freshly launched Collective Motion site.…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Trollback + Dreams
This latest in-house project from Trollbäck+Co challenged designers Tetsuro, Peter, Anna, Paul, Emre, Christina and Tolga to create short films that capture the semi-conscious thoughts…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Impactist: Birthday
Impactist never fails to surprise me. Their latest project is a poetically disturbing mash up of two occasions that seem diametrically opposed: Injured veterans from…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
KOTOC: cuatrobots
Maybe this is a super-Quickie. Maybe not. All I know is that these four promos for Cuatro’s coverage of the UEFA Euro 2008 tournament from…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Digital Kitchen: Seattle International Film Festival
Like their recent project for the Webbys, DK’s work for the Seattle International Film Festival is varied in style and tone. Each of the four…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Blacklist Represents for FUSE
Blacklist just dropped this solid and slightly odd batch of promos for FUSE‘s “Music Is” campaign from Brooklyn Brothers. Each piece was undertaken by a…
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Matt Lambert • 16 years ago
A Day at the 2nd Motion Graphics Review
Festival reviews are not that common here, but I had such an amazing experience at the 2nd Motion Graphics Review, that I thought it was…
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Boca Ceravolo • 16 years ago
ANNY: Ukiyo-e
QuickTime Version I’m always curious about Japanese motion graphics studios. I know so little about how Asian studios in general are set up, and yet…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Bryce Wymer
Bryce Wymer has relaunched his personal site, and it’s chock full of the good stuff he’s been doing for the last few years. Before becoming…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Crush and REM Strike Again
After their first well received collaboration with REM (Hollow Man), Crush follows up with “Man Sized Wreath.” This piece deals with an anonymous man’s daily…
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Matt Lambert • 16 years ago
Welcome to Motionographer 2.0
Welcome to Motionographer’s refreshed look. There’s still plenty of work to be done, but it’s time we went ahead and pushed this baby out. Some…
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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