NYC ACM SIGGRAPH’s Industry Spotlight VII
Don’t miss NYC ACM SIGGRAPH’s Seventh Annual “Industry Spotlight” this Wednesday, April 1. Some of the top animation and post-production facilities in the NYC-metropolitan area, including Curious Pictures, The…
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Lauren Indovina • 15 years ago
State of Design 2009
Thanks for attending my State of Design presentation at Promax|BDA North America. Below you’ll find my playlist, including links to videos and credits. Again, I’d…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
See No Evil Tonight!
Attention London See No Evil is tonight! An audience with Wyld Stallyons, Kick Bar Shoreditch, 7pm (talk 7.30pm), FREE entry & prizes!
James Wignall • 14 years ago
David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
TED talk with David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
Brandon Lori • 14 years ago
Buck for Google eBooks
After much speculations and rumours, Google launches its own eBookstore today. Lots of talk about its pros and cons, as well as discussions about whether…
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Lilian Darmono • 13 years ago
motion + The Adobe Post Show approach
Oct 9 – 14: Two events joined at the hip — motion, 2.5 days of TED talk-like session specifically for our industry, and the Adobe…
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Justin Cone • 13 years ago
Sean Pecknold: Fleet Foxes’ “The Shrine/An Argument”
Talk about a great Monday. A note from Friend let us know that Sean Pecknold’s eight-minute epic for “The Shrine/An Argument” by Fleet Foxes is…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago
SXSW 2012: Music Videos
SXSW was a music festival first, so there’s lots of love for the music video format. In addition to the music video screening, this year…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago
Grant Orchard’s Dirty Thoughts
Studio AKA‘s Grant Orchard’s latest piece is a reduced graphic animation similar to his signature style works. It’s called Yeah Just There and was made…
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Mate Steinforth • 12 years ago
SXSW 2012: Beauty is Embarrasing
Disclaimer: Wayne White was a speaker at the 2011 F5 Festival. His talk makes an appearance at the end of this film. In Beauty is…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago
Michel Gondry and Boris Vian: a match made in heaven
There has been much talk this week about the woes of the visual effects industry. Snubs at the Oscars did not go unnoticed, including that…
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Dominique Elliott • 11 years ago
Cuphead E3 2014 Trailer
In a upcoming game developed by Studio MDHR, Cuphead is stylized like a legit 1930s cartoon. Talk about retrogaming!
Brandon Lori • 10 years ago
NYC: Image Design course offering from SVA
I’ll be giving a talk for an interesting new class, “Image Design,” taught by accomplished art director Ricardo Villavicencio. Offered by SVA’s Continuing Education program,…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Confirmation Bias, Motionographer and You
Is Motionographer just perpetuating trends by posting only a small selection of work? We dive into the numbers and find out. BONUS: We present one…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Psyop and Fortissimo go their separate ways
The much talked about reverse merger between Psyop and Israel-based Fortissimo Acquisition Corp. has been shot down by the latter’s shareholders. The tumultuous economy was…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
LIFE
Good news: Much-talked-about nature documentary series LIFE, made by the BBC, narrated by Sir David Attenborough is available now on Discovery Channel for US viewers.…
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Lilian Darmono • 14 years ago
Virtual reality is not filmmaking
Let’s agree on something: 360-degree video presented inside a virtual reality headset isn’t really virtual reality. It’s a novel, sometimes powerful experience, but it’s not what makes VR arguably the most…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Magic Leap… no, for real this time
Augmented reality startup Magic Leap made headlines last year when it raised over $540 million dollars in funding while still managing to hide its plans from…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Do I Have Your Attention?
Laundry! finished this video for the Blood Arm over the holidays and it was just released. It’s got sweet cel-animated type and a grab bag…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 16 years ago
Motion +61 DVD: Volume 2
Motion +61 DVD: Volume 2 has been released, and it looks promising. The showcase of Australian talent includes work from Collider, CO-OP, Monkeylab, Qube Konstrukt,…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Motionographer’s Role in the Industry (Right Now)
We recently posted a short op-ed piece that sparked a good deal of comments. In sharing this news, Motionographer was a bit late to the…
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Justin Cone • 12 years ago
Making Midwest #4: Team Talk
Join us for the November 3rd event at Mills James from 6-9pm, titled “Team Talk”. Teams/companies will share some recent projects and what went into…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Tidying up for the muse: Interview with Liz Blazer, author of “Animated Storytelling”
Equal parts inspiring and practical, Liz Blazer's book, "Animated Storytelling" is a step-by-step guide to get readers from idea to final render. In our chat…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Ash Thorp shares process behind “NONE,” his latest personal project
Ash Thorp talks process, work-life (im)balance and spending the currency of time in this interview about his new short film.
Justin Cone • 8 years ago