The Motion Awards: More Than a Category — It’s a Celebration of Our Industry
In 2014, nearly every industry had its own awards except Motion Design. To fill this gap, Motionographer created The Motion Awards in 2015, dedicated to…
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Staff • 3 months ago
Reliving The Past Motion Awards Winners! | Spider-Man: Homecoming / Perception
The vision for this sequence was a handmade, tactile aesthetic that feels like it could be a collection of high-school art class projects. Perception's talented…
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Staff • 2 weeks ago
Loyalkaspar updates
Loyalkaspar did some updating recently with a new reel, and a few new pieces of work. Of particular interest is the 60 second spot for…
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Tread • 18 years ago
EyeballNYC Does It Again
Back in February, EyeballNYC posted a series of station IDs for CMT directed by Adam Gault and Carlo Vega that quickly became my favorite examples…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Interview: Kylie Matulick and Todd Mueller of Psyop
By now you’ve probably seen "Happiness Factory," Psyop’s masterpiece for Coke and agency Wieden+Kennedy, several times. If you’re anything like me, you’ve scrubbed through it…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Lord, I Was Born a Ramblin’ Man
We’ve been getting a bunch of good work coming our way over the last week or so, but very little of it has reached out…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Directors Notes
Guilherme Marcondes recently tipped me off to a great podcast called Directors Notes, for which he was recently interviewed. It’s a really well-done show that,…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Mekanism: Let’s Green This City
Mekanism created a bunch of videos for Let’s Green This City, a big environmental awareness initiative from Pacific Gas & Electric (or PG&E for all…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Adam Gault: Lantern Fishes
I’ve raved about Adam Gault before, and as long as he keeps creating amazing work like his recent Lantern Fishes, I’m going to keep on…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Sony vs. Kozyndan Update
Background For those of you who’ve missed the drama, I’ll try to bring you up to date. Last week, we posted the latest spot in…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Psyop: Adidas “Together”
I know Motionographer seems like a Psyop love-fest sometimes, but when one studio creates so much diverse, beautiful, intelligent work, they’re going to get a…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
SHOWstudio for YSL
Okay, this is going to be a hard sell. It’s not motion graphics. And it was originally intended to be viewed on a much larger…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Woof Wan-Bau: Nomis “Damn Boots”
Woof Wan-Bau (Nexus Productions) directed this surreal trip for Nomis. The journey takes us from stardom to rock-bottom, all because of some damn shoes. (Sorry,…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Buck: New Site, New Reels
Buck has refreshed their web presence and added not one, but two new reels. Their main reel, weighing in a just over two minutes, is…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Favorite Color: “Back Nine at Cherry Hills”
Favorite Color recently crafted the main titles for the HBO documentary, “Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open,” which chronicles…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Animation Block Party
The Animation Block Party’s 5th Annual Festival gets underway this weekend in Brooklyn, and it looks like its going to be a good time. In…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Interview: Psyop for T. Rowe Price
The following is an interview with Mate Steinforth and Gerald Ding and myself, Lauren Indovina regarding Psyop’s “Ink” and “Rice” spots for JWT and T.…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Blood Trail Interview
[qt:http://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/bt.mov 720 405] Storyboards and Development Check out the storyboards and some making-of imagery behind this epic project. Interview The following is an interview with the…
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Lauren Indovina • 15 years ago
Baptiste Sola: L’échange (The Exchange)
Although the end falls just a little flat for me, I’m still in love with Baptiste Sola’s “L’échange.” It’s a brilliant testament to a kind…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Mainframe: Ministry of Sound/MSHK “Tomas” (NSFW)
Warning: These films are not safe for work (NSFW). We got the scoop on these deliciously macabre promos from Mainframe last week, but we’ve been…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Bif for The Mill: “Dix”
The Mill’s renowned directing trio, Bif, has conceived a dark and eerie short-film in Dix. Dix, which is French for “ten,” highlights Mark, a tortured…
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Brandon Lori • 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
Offline by Matthew Santoro
Good Monday morning Motionographer readers. Maybe you are confused as to why we are starting this week out by posting a trailer for some big…
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Jon Saunders • 15 years ago