Monstrous Legs
Here’s another magical tale from the wizards at MassMarket, prosthetics master Stan Winston and production company MJZ (among others). It’s such an enchanting narrative that…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Psyop’s Reverse Merger with Fortissimo
Okay okay, enough already. We’ve known about the Psyop “buyout” now for almost two weeks, but we didn’t report it because it’s industry news and…
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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
Elephant Girl
A nice enchanting short film from New York based David Lobser. As this film is Part 2 of a 1 Part series, you know things…
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James Wignall • 17 years ago
Book Review: Uncredited
As soon as I heard about Uncredited, a new book on the history and current state of film title design, I bought it. It came…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Adobe and Cut&Paste: “See What’s Possible”
When I saw that the grand prize for the recently announced “See What’s Possible” Challenge from Adobe and Cut&Paste was $20,000 USD, I did a…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Digital Kitchen for Target
Watch “Art Transports” | Watch “Art Imagines” The latest two outdoor Target promos from Digital Kitchen’s Chicago office couldn’t be more different. “Art Transports” is…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Joseph Kosinski for Chevy
I’ve been a fan of Joseph Kosinski (now with Anonymous Content) since back in the KDLab days, when his focus was on blurring the lines…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Danger Danger! The Holograms for kap10kurt
Now and again we get a submission here at motionographer mansions that makes me smile from ear to ear and scream for everyone to come…
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Simon Robson • 17 years ago
3:19 Titles
These exquisite titles conceived by Mucho Motion (executed with assistance from Onesize and Rune) for the film 3:19 are in my eyes one of the…
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Jon Saunders • 17 years ago
Unanticipated Kid Storm
Impactist (a.k.a. Kelly Meador & Daniel Elwing a.k.a. Mare Dowling) created a curious a/v puzzle for the opening of the latest *smilefaucet DVD, Undo. In…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Kevin Webster: metacosm
Kevin Webster is a senior Broadcast Design and Motion Graphics student as SCAD who’s been working furiously on an ambitious self-initiated project for over a…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
XYZ Studios & Charlex Go On a Journey
Watch on the XYZ Studios site | Download 720p version This new spot for Dodge in the US directed by Australian shop XYZ Studios (represented…
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Jon Gorman • 16 years ago
Take It To The Next Level
This isn’t really a motion graphic spot, but I was thoroughly entertained by this ad for Nike directed by Guy Ritchie for agency 72andSunny. This…
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Jon Saunders • 16 years ago
Yves Geleyn: Zune Arts “Mother Like No Other”
Watch on Zune Arts | Watch at Hornet In time for Mother’s Day, Hornet’s Yves Geleyn (repped by Passion Pictures Paris in Europe) keeps the…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Lobo for Saturn and Suez
Watch Saturn “Transformations” | Watch Suez Lobo (with The Ebeling Group) revisited the aesthetics of their Skank One Song project, but this time they did…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Adam Gault “Lives and Dies” for Stefanie Augustine
The phones have been ringing off the hooks here at Motionographer HQ, with angry members of the motion-going public wondering why Adam Gault’s ‘Living and…
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Simon Robson • 16 years ago
Book Review: Graphic Design: The New Basics
As promised, this is my review of Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips’ Graphic Design: The New Basics, published by Princeton Architectural Press. Overview Ellen…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Sehsucht: Konzerthaus Dortmund “Black Poem”
This stunning promo from Sehsucht for the Konzerthaus Dortmund concert hall celebrates a new season of musical performances with a lyrical ode to fire. It’s…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Costs of War
QuickTime version “Costs of War” is exactly the kind of thing that makes me believe in motion graphics. For the moment, put the subject matter…
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Justin Cone • 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
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
Axel Rudolph: Knowledge
[Updated with subtitles] For his final year project at Berufsakademie Ravensburg in Germany, Axel Rudolph created “Knowledge,” a proof-of-concept video for his vision of what…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Logan and PlayStation: Resistance 2 “Twisted History”
So far this week, video games are reigning supreme. If the onslaught of great work isn’t an indicator of advertising and marketing dollars shifting in…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago