LA AIGA presents The Pentagram Papers

The Los Angeles chapter of AIGA, the professional association of design, will be hosting an open-to-the-public event on Thursday, March 15th at the Pacific Design… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Elliot Blanchard

Elliot Blanchard is another unsung hero of the New York scene. He is a freelance animator/designer with an impressive collection of work. He has been… Read more

Jon Saunders • 17 years ago

Shilo’s Scion Deviants

Shilo continues its blitz of new motion work with this spot done for ATTIK’s brand new campaign for Scion entitled “Little Deviant”. A very dark… Read more

Jon Saunders • 17 years ago

Join the Rockband

Pete Candeland & Passion pictures have just released a new cinematic trailer for upcoming game Rockband, for which the few screengrabs above don’t nearly do… Read more

Jon Gorman • 17 years ago

Metro de Madrid: “Transparente” (Updated)

“Transparente” aims at changing people’s perspectives about using the subway in Madrid. Literally. These kinds of vfx projects are all about restraint. Props to director… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 years ago

Cassiano Prado ‘in Berlin’

New director Cassiano Prado has directed this stunning video for the band Electralane, for their track ‘In Berlin’. The promo is an emotional tour de… Read more

Simon Robson • 16 years ago

Korb – I’ll be gone

I’ve always been a sucker for a simple idea well executed. And right now I can’t think of a piece that achieves it better than… Read more

Simon Robson • 16 years ago

Mass Animation = Mass Exploitation?

When Mass Animation announced their goal of creating a CG short film by “crowd-sourcing” the animation to a global community of thousands of animators, I… Read more

Justin Cone • 15 years ago

5’th Annual Typophile Film Festival: Opening Title

If you love typography, look no further. Handmade by students and faculty at Brigham Young University (BYU), the opening-title for the 5’th annual Typophile Film… Read more

Brandon Lori • 15 years ago

Pleix Round-Up: New Homes, New Spots

The directing-collective that brought us these raving rabbits for Groove Armada in ’07, give birth to about a million more of the CG-varietal for Duracell.… Read more

Matt Lambert • 15 years ago

Tronic & Marco Brambilla – Spec Ops Game Trailer + Q&A

View trailer on Vimeo Q&A with Jesse Seppi and Vivian Rosenthal of Tronic From scouring through your previous work, this appears to be Tronic’s first… Read more

Jake Sargeant • 14 years ago

Previsualization Society Launches

The Previsualization Society is a new organization, formed in September 2009 that is “dedicated to advancing previsualization (“previs”) in feature film, games, commercials and architecture.”… Read more

Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago

Kitteh Kitteh!!

UPDATE: 2 more items are added to the Q&A section, the result of a few readers’ additional query which I followed up with Sam. Sorry… Read more

Lilian Darmono • 14 years ago

Seagulls Fly “Adobe CS5 – Production Premium”

Q&A with Seagulls Fly by Michelle Higa, with help from Boca Ceravolo and Bran Dougherty-Johnson Can you talk a bit about the brief – was… Read more

Michelle Higa Fox • 14 years ago

Lucas Zanotto for TUI

What can you make with paper cut-outs, fishing line, a hole puncher, and a Canon 7D? Lucas Zanotto shows us with his live action animation… Read more

Austin Shaw • 13 years ago

Ned Wenlock: “Apache” for Danger Beach

What was the concept behind the spinning environment in the piece? I had a rough, hazy idea for what happens in the video based on… Read more

Brandon Lori • 13 years ago

TRON Legacy In-Depth with David Lewandowski

Editor’s note: The following is a guest contribution from writer Meleah Maynard. What would the DNA of a one-of-a-kind being look like if it could be… Read more

Staff • 13 years ago

Playgrounds Audiovisual Arts Festival

In Tilburg, a small town in the south of The Netherlands, a wonderfull festival is hidden. Playgrounds Audiovisual Arts Festival is a festival for innovative… Read more

Harm van Zon • 13 years ago

Happycamper for China Mobile: “Wireless City”

Happycamper spent the fall of 2011 working alongside China Mobile to create an ambitious mixed-media piece in Wireless City. Using a combination of traditional model-making… Read more

Brandon Lori • 12 years ago

Celyn Brazier for Wagon Christ

Celyn Brazier, one of my favorite illustrators, pays homage to the Thaumatrope in his latest for Wagon Christ.

Elliot Blanchard • 12 years ago

Stereoscopic 3D Production for Everyone: Part 1, The Camera

Editor’s note: The following post is from guest author Kevin McAuliffe, a Senior Editor at MIJO in Toronto. (You may also be familiar with his… Read more

kevinpmcauliffe • 12 years ago

GoldRunner, Vivian Rosenthal and Augmented Reality

I cut my teeth on motion design at turn of the 21st century, when the desktop computer revolution was in full swing. A handful of… Read more

Justin Cone • 11 years ago

Alexis Beaumont & Rémi Godin: Stuck in the Sound “Let’s Go”

This one nearly slipped past our radar. Directed by Alexis Beaumont and Rémi Godin, this music video for Stuck in the Sound’s “Let’s Go” is… Read more

Justin Cone • 11 years ago

Kijek/Adamski: Shugo Tokumaru “Katachi”

Directors Kijek/Adamski created this lovely, lighthearted video using approximately 2,000 silhouettes extracted from PVC plates using a computer-controlled cutter. I love the balance between popping… Read more

Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago