Sometimes The Stars: Ari Gibson & Jason Pamment
[…] final solution, narrative wise, and design wise? Our first task was to flesh out the narrative and instilling atmosphere and a mature tone to match…
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Lilian Darmono • 14 years ago
pictureDRIFT & Smog: Rock Bottom Riser
[…] box after they had been shown. He thought they would make a great animated video but felt passionately that it had to be for…
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Jon Gorman • 18 years ago
Washed Out, but far from washed up. Computer Team delivers for a Motion Award win.
[…] / Computer Team WINNER / SHORT FORM > MUSIC VIDEO CATEGORY DESCRIPTION Music video prominently featuring motion design PROJECT DESCRIPTION “Floating By” is as much…
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Millie Verastegui • 4 years ago
From the Archives: “Moonlight in Glory”
[…] from pioneers like Oskar Fischinger and Len Lye. Abstract forms and minimal type are presented as visual music. The images are not illustrations of…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Onesize: The American Dollar “Anything You Synthesize”
[…] appearances) or a scantily clad go-go dancer (although I wouldn’t have objected), but rather the landscape. Here’s a little more info from Onesize: After…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Motion Theory: Triple Threat
[…] and before you know it, you’re caught in the majesty of a lush universe seemingly built from little more than streetlights and umbrellas. The…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs – OK Go “This Too Shall Pass”
[…] Go, James Frost, and Syyn Labs created a crazy Rube Goldberg machine (in the manner of The Way Things Go and Honda ‘Cog‘) that…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 15 years ago
Josh Raskin for Google
[…] the first dance at every wedding from now on. Haha. I would love to see that at a wedding. We’re actually making a music…
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Simon Robson • 12 years ago
This Land Is Mine
[…] last will be first, and the first will be last.” And if you’re curious about the soundtrack: This Land Is Mine is a PARODY…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Konx-Om-Pax: You Got Me Up
[…] combination of subject matter and style that does it for me. The subject matter is deceptively dumb at first: a guy holding his cat…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Lord, I Was Born a Ramblin’ Man
[…] I’d feared. I won’t say it’s a perfect reel, mainly because that’s a ridiculous thing to say. That’s like saying there’s such a thing…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Shilo: Winning the War
[…] and he wanted us to help put some visuals to his concepts in his music. It was pretty cool, he was sitting around writing…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Motion Theory Deconstructs Accord
[…] Motion Theory Producer: Matt Winkel VFX Supervisor: Bryan Godwin Senior Art Director: Jesus de Francisco CG Supervisor: Danny Zobrist Concept Artist: Graham Bleathman Additional…
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Matt Lambert • 16 years ago
Shih-Ting Hung: Viola
[…] goes about finding her way in life. Everything in the film is based on that. Where did you get the idea for “Viola”? When…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Tintori and NABIL: Breaking your internets
[…] in its simplest form. I wanted to use it more of strategic way, using calculated moshes, colors and textures to compliment the effect. Different…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 16 years ago
Three Legged Legs for Wrigley’s
[…] Thoma Horne, Tyler Nathan, Yanko Sanchez CHARACTER ANIMATORS – Jameson Baltes, Regev Gamliel, Matt Nava, Robin Steele LIGHTING/FUR – Bill Dorais FAITHFUL INTERNS –…
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Matt Lambert • 16 years ago
My God, It’s Full of Stars Q&A
[…] project like this that combines all our interests into one piece. How did you come up with the concept for Slow Poison? The band…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Lucky by EB Hu
[…] started up with a series of viral ads for Spinvox and some pop promos for Zero7. We recently finished George Michael’s new Christmas single…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
The Games We Play Q&A
[…] “narrates” the action of the films well quite well. The music wasn’t decided until after the first day of shooting. I’m not sure where…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
CANADA on How to Deconstruct Ice Cream
[…] for me. Yes, it has a structure It may be apparently random, but it all has a reason to be there. In our treatment,…
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Brandon Walter Irvine • 13 years ago
Blur Talks: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Titles
[…] “I want everything to be black, none blacker and covered in dream-ooze.” At what point did you know that Trent Reznor and Karen O’s…
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Staff • 13 years ago
Scott Benson: Toh Kay “With Any Sort Of Certainty”
[…] I think about a lot, and some of it is more directly about my own life. I guess everything anyone makes is like that.…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago
The Peach Kings “Mojo Thunder” [NSFW]
[…] believed in this. Some advice worth offering might be: if you’re going to work for free on a music video, I’d say make sure…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
yesyesyall is like MTV back when it was MTV
[…] We will always curate, but we wanted to give some power to the people. Submitting a video starts with pasting a YouTube URL You…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago