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… Read more

Justin Cone • 12 years ago

One Day on Earth / 12.12.12

By the time this post goes live, One Day on Earth’s third installment will have begun somewhere on this crazy planet of ours. On December… Read more

Justin Cone • 12 years ago

Kromag #7

Kromag #7 (featuring: Helio Vega, Matt Lambert, Rob Chiu, Renascent, Onesize and many more)  

Harm van Zon • 12 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… Read more

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… Read more

Justin Cone • 10 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… Read more

Brian Gossett • 10 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… Read more

Justin Cone • 10 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… Read more

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 —… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 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 • 9 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… Read more

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… Read more

Joe Donaldson • 8 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 • 8 years ago

Mistborn

JM Blay's Magical Quest: Translating Mistborn from Page to Screen - Breaking Free from Constraints to Unleash Creativity

Staff • 6 months ago

Reliving The Past Motion Awards Winners! | Game of Thrones / Elastic

The Season 8 Game of Thrones title sequence was redesigned to be more narrative, with visual details reflecting the depth and evolution of the story,… Read more

Staff • 4 weeks ago

Crowdfunding Policy

We get countless requests to share projects on crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. We applaud the efforts of creative people using these funding mechanisms to… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 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… Read more

Matt Lambert • 16 years ago

David Thorne : Notorious Internet ‘Troublemaker’

Continuing the ‘Funny Friday’ theme, David Thorne, the wittiest man ever to grace the email universe has some new stuff on his site here. Our… Read more

Lilian Darmono • 15 years ago