Hybrid by birth: Getting to know Animade

I first became aware of London-based Animade via their iOS game Ready Steady Bang, a twitchy dueler packed with charming animation. They popped up again on… Read more

Justin Cone • 10 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

Author of “Design for Motion” talks industry, education and the state of design

[…] are pivotal ingredients for success; however, I noticed that students who lacked foundations in areas like concept development, design compositing, and cinematic visual storytelling… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

Rise and Fall Q&A:

Boards Interactive Magazine – Walkthrough Questions: How did this project come about? What was the initial brief from ‘boards magazine? We were contacted by Nexus… Read more

Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago

What is web animation? Rachel Nabors explains it all.

Web design and motion design have been on a collision course since the early 2000s. Today, they’re finally merging, spawning strange new fields — and… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

A mobile game made entirely out of clay?

The visuals for Tiny Passengers, a new mobile puzzle game from Shape Minds launching in iTunes today, were created almost entirely in clay. Check out… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

Hyper Island Launches Interactive Art Director Program

Swedish design school Hyper Island has launched an interesting new 32-week Interactive Art Director Program. While the objectives and assignments are built around interactive projects,… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

Only Say Yes When It’s Yes

As the President of The Ashy Agency and Chairman of the Board of Governors for the Broadcast Design Association (BDA), Brett Ashy has worked with… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 years ago

Database Marketing

[…] in your mailbox, for sure. More recently, Chris Milk and Google created the interactive musical experience The Wilderness Downtown for Arcade Fire, which utilized… Read more

Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago

Motion design in games with Ubisoft’s Wylie Robinson

Motion design in games? It's more important than you think. Our interview with Wylie explains why.

Justin Cone • 10 years ago

Making an “unfairy” tale: Malak and The Boat

Learn about the process behind "Malak and the Boat," a powerful CG short about a 7 year-old Syrian refugee. Says the film's director: "We are… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

Siggraph 2011: Damian Nenow “Paths of Hate”‘ Interview

The trailer for Paths of Hate showcased its effortless combination of comic book visual style with dynamic dogfighting camera motion and kinetic editing. The film… Read more

Michelle Higa Fox • 13 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

School of Motion’s Joey Korenman talks design education and work/life balance

Working out of his HQ in Sarasota, Florida, Joey is blazing his own path, one tutorial at a time

Justin Cone • 10 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 • 12 years ago

Jenny LeClue: A Handmade Adventure Game

From motion design to game development, Joe Russ is constantly challenging himself to learn more

Justin Cone • 10 years ago

The Mill tackles monstrous VR challenges for Google ATAP

The pioneers of VR continue making progress, despite (or perhaps because of) the incredible technical and creative challenges it poses.  One of the latest projects… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

40 Instagram accounts you should be following

Brian Gossett shares 40 of his favorite Instagram accounts — and explains why Instagram matters more than ever for artists and designers.

Brian Gossett • 9 years ago

Motionographer Expands Its Reach in Asia Through WeChat with Final Frontier Partnership

Motionographer partners with Final Frontier to debut on China's WeChat, expanding their reach in Asia. This collaboration offers motion designers global exposure through WeChat’s vast… Read more

Staff • 4 months ago

The F5 effect: How a two-day event changed one attendee’s life

Editor’s note: The following is a post about F5, a two-day creativity festival started by Motionographer in 2009. The next F5 will be on April… Read more

Justin Cone • 10 years ago

DANIELS Strip to Their Underwear

Directing Duo : Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan aka DANIELS, just released a music video for an FM Belfast track titled Underwear. “And all you… Read more

Ryan Rothermel • 14 years ago

Marco Brambilla: Civilization

[qt:http://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/civilization_final.mov 960 540] Installation Credits Title: Civilization (MEGAPLEX), 2008 By: Marco Brambilla Client: The Standard Hotel, New York Editor/Research Assistant: Beau Dickson Assistant: Swapna Tamhane… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 years ago

Motorville by Patrick Jean

[…] details. Directed and Animated by : Patrick Jean patrick-jean.com Sound Design : David Kamp davidkamp.de/ All the vector map data used in this film… Read more

Elliot Blanchard • 12 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