Maxon @ SIGGRAPH 2011
Live streaming presentations from the Maxon booth at SIGGRAPH, including Greyscalegorilla Nick Campbell (Wed., Aug. 10 at 2 pm PST, Thurs., Aug. 11 at 1…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
AENY: December 2011 Meeting
AENY’s last meeting of the year will be on December 1 at 6:45 @ PS 41. Special guests: Jeremy Cox of Imaginary Forces and Ryan…
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Justin Cone • 12 years ago
Motionographer Holiday Catalog 2011 (Part 3)
In a wrap up of this year’s Motionographer Holiday Catalog (see Part 1 & Part 2), here’s the third and final post saluting story, tradition,…
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Matt Hunter Ross • 12 years ago
Classic Quickie: The Special Effects of Darby O’Gill and the Little People
Motionographer Classic Quickie: Peter Ellenshaw’s special effects in Disney’s Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959). Part 1 (matte painting) and Part 2 (forced perspective).
Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago
EXCLUSIVE: Making of King and Country’s Motel 6 “Metamorphosis”
When King and Country’s Motel 6 “Metamorphosis” spot hit the web a while back (above), it made a big splash. With nearly 1,400 likes on…
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Staff • 12 years ago
Motionographer Classics: Chris Landreth
In the early days of the internet, downloading videos often meant painstakingly collecting sequential 1.44mb .rar files, hoping none of them were corrupted, and finally…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago
ODD NY: Mapping
Chapter 1: Mapping. Office of Development and Design re-examines NYC topography based on perception in the first installment of it’s series of shorts entitled ODD…
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Matt Hunter Ross • 12 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…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago
Mischa Rozema’s Stardust
Stardust is PostPanic director Mischa Rozema’s haunting love letter to loss, exploration, and Voyager 1. When I was a kid, I thought that Voyager’s golden…
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Elliot Blanchard • 11 years ago
Psyop LA tackles a series of CG shorts for Samsung Galaxy
The Training The Match: Part 1 Psyop LA tackles a series of long form shorts in this amazing campaign for Samsung Galaxy.
Staff • 10 years ago
Pep Rally is born
PepRally has quietly launched. The studio is part of a growing trend of director/designer/animators creating new opportunities for work that fall outside the normal scope of freelance.…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
One Year of 9 Squares
Encompassing 28 rounds and 186 contributors, 9 Square's 1 year retrospective is motion for motion's sake — no deep ideas or earth-shattering innovations. Just beautiful…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Eyeo 2014: Robert Hodgin
…I’ve been trying to come to grips with an internal struggle. It’s the struggle between doing something correctly and doing something expressively. Those two things…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
VFX Townhall Recap and Links
Lee Stranahan’s Monday night VFX Townhall: The State of The Industry was a big success. Not in providing a solution, but in starting a discussion,…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago
How a husband and wife team took a startup from brand to product launch
What makes “IMANDRA” a fascinating case study in the world of explainer videos is not its intricately detailed but elegant animation (although that’s very nice),…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
SXSW 2012: Beauty is Embarrassing
Disclaimer: Wayne White was a speaker at the 2011 F5 festival. His talk there makes an appearance at the end of this film. We covered…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 12 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
Tom & Mark: “Coke Secret Ingredient Swelter Stopper”
[qt:http://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/coke-si-640.mov 640 360] Credits Project: Coca Cola “Swelter Stopper” Duration: 1×30″ CLIENT Coca Cola AGENCY Wieden + Kennedy Portland Creative Directors: Hal Curtis, Sheena Brady…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Full Coverage: Talking Tron with Digital Domain
We had a chance to catch up with the crew that brought TRON: Legacy to life, Digital Domain. Not only were they the forces behind…
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Justin Cone • 13 years ago
1 Typeface. 110 Animators.
Purveyors of animated typography, Animography, have released their latest project Franchise Animated: For this specific animated typeface we have round up 110 talented animators from…
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Staff • 11 years ago
Nicolas Ménard takes on 18 films for Facebook Groups
A smart use of color, clearly defined hierarchy and expertly conceived characters all come together to make each of these bite-sized films a real treat…
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Joe Donaldson • 8 years ago
A look at the changing landscape of animation with Johnny Kelly
In this Motionographer Q&A we chat with Johnny Kelly about his recent work "Good Adds Up", a series of personalized films created for Facebook.
Joe Donaldson • 7 years ago