84000 “Words of the Buddha”
Giant Ant creates “Words of the Buddha,” an elegant 2D promo for non-profit 84,000. The non-profit, 84000, has an enormous task ahead of them: tackling…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Wild & Woolly
2veinte creates what is possibly the most interesting walk cycle ever in “Wild & Woolly.” Lots of traditionally animated love went into this one. UPDATE:…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
PES creates “Paper,” a stop-motion masterpiece for Honda
PES creates "Paper," a stop-motion masterpiece for Honda (includes behind the scenes video)
Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Transistor’s James Price Makes Me Believe That AOL Might Actually Be A Nice Experience
Transistor Studios’ James Price did something impossible: He made AOL appear to be elegant and well-designed. Okay okay, maybe AOL’s not that bad anymore; the…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
A Horse’s Ass Can Ruin Everything
Felipe Vellasco and Pedro Gravena created this whimsical stop-motion piece for Brazilian logistics company Luft to explain how one design decision can create a design…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
North Kingdom shows us what’s on Toyota’s mind
Check out this beautiful melding of motion and interactivity created by Swedish interactive design firm, North Kingdom. The site is both highly entertaining, and highly…
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John Cranston • 17 years ago
Supinfocom: Musicotherapie
A small band of crazily talented Supinfocom students has created an excellent new short, “Musicotherapie,” maintaining their school’s reputation as one of the best places…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Adobe Cards
As you scrub through this little gem from Mike Kellog for Adobe, make sure to hang out at some of the “keyframe” points along the…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
SpecialGuest & 1st Ave Machine: New Work
Special Guest Returns for AutoTrader As a follow-up to their previous AutoTrader UK spot, SpecialGuest has created another CG spot full of the same cheery…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Shilo: Mercenaries 2 “Ca$h”
UPDATE: A directors cut with an alternate soundtrack can be found on Shilo’s site. Click on “Directors Cut” next to “Broadcast.” Working with San Francisco…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
PSST! Pass it on…for Over the Rhine
Democratic moving image project “PSST! Pass it on” have just created their first music promo for the Cincinnati, Ohio-based band, Over The Rhine. The “PSST!”…
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Simon Robson • 16 years ago
Psyop: Coke “Heist”
For this weekend’s Super Bowl ad-o-rama, Psyop and Weiden+Kennedy Portland teamed up create another epic tale of longing for Coke. Like the 2007 “Happiness Factory,”…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Made for Each Other
As part of Frito Lay’s “Made for Each Other” campaign, two Motionographer favorites have created two decidedly adorable mini-shorts about finding true love. Although they’re…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Lobo: Amnesty International
Leo Burnett Lisbon and one of my favorite Brazilian studios, Lobo, have teamed up to create this arresting spot for Amnesty International. Based on the…
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Boca Ceravolo • 16 years ago
What’s In the Box?
“What in the Box?” is the extremely ambitious “test film” created by a Dutch students Tim Smit and Thibaut Niels that’s been heating up YouTube—and…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
ABC Yo-Yo
Marianna Ludensky and Justin Weber created a kinetic font created entirely out of yo-yos in motion. (Updated to full version.)
Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Emilio Gomariz: Folder Type
Emilio Gomariz, a Madrid-based art director, created and colored 22,655 empty folders in OS X to create an engaging type-based animation. This video adds to…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Johannes Schiehsl – ITFS Zoopraxiscope
For the 2010 Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, Johannes Schiehsl has created a clever ode to animation centered on the idea of constantly changing silhouettes…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 14 years ago
Lynn Fox: Mercedes Benz “Thanks, Airbag”
Blink’s Lynn Fox and Jung von Matt create this captivating ode to airbags for Mercedes Benz. Also check out Fox’s Killer Moves, another experiment with…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
Stimulant: LoopLoop
Stimulant has created LoopLoop, a visual musical sequencer that runs on the Sifteo cubes. LoopLoop uses an animated visual language as well as touch, motion,…
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Elliot Blanchard • 13 years ago
Aaron Koblin and Chris Milk: This Exquisite Forest
Aaron Koblin and Chris Milk’s newest HTML5 venture is an online take on the classic surrealist game of exquisite corpse. In This Exquisite Forest, each…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago
Desmond Leung
Yes, yes, ink transitions are all very 2005, but Desmond Leung’s work reminds me of how beautiful natural patterns can be. Working with particle simulators…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago
Buck: IBM Datagrams Showcase
Lovely collection of “datagrams” created for IBM and the US Open. Created by Buck. Audio by Cypher Audio.
Staff • 11 years ago
Plasticine Rhythm
Animator, illustrator and musician Andy Martin took a series of stop-motion animations he created for Vine and used them as a launchpad for “Plasticine Rhythm.”…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago