Articles and Interviews
[…] promos they created for ESPN’s coverage of the Major League Baseball playoffs. Go! Interview: Lobo Does Dupont Mateus de Paula Santos, Creative Director at…
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Justin Cone • 19 years ago
Lauren Indovina: 10,000 Arrows to the Heart
[…] and ardent look how she became a Creative Director at Psyop and what it means to work from the heart and excel through failure.…
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Staff • 11 years ago
Pixels Q&A with Patrick Jean
[…] contributes a lot to the nostalgic feeling of it, and nicely fits the retro gaming theme. This is a self-initiated project for you, right?…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Big Think Series: Can You Know Motion Without Knowing Stillness? (Part 1)
[…] struggle to answer. Is it Motion Graphics? Is it Animation? Is it Branding? The Theory presented in the fractal diagram above seeks to answer…
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Austin Shaw • 14 years ago
An Interview with nailgun*
MOV nailgun*’s latest reel JPG Pitch boards for the Academy Awards PDF The process behind the Benjamin Franklin spot for Spike TV’s Men of Action…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Review: The Art of Legend of the Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’Hoole
[…] Snyder (300), Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga-hoole did not fare particularly well at the box office or in critics’ columns. We’ll…
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Justin Cone • 12 years ago
Xiangjun Shi: Why Do I Study Physics?
[…] environmental studies and industrial design. Mine were physics and animation. Right, you got a Physics Sc.B from Brown and a Film/Animation/Video B.A. from RISD.…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Elements of Design
[…] the project’s conclusion is one I can endorse. It seems to posit two extremes: design as “science,” which in this context is meant to…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Artist Profile: Graham Elliott
[…] interesting career is a person, someone trying to do something unique while expressing themselves and paying the bills. The life and times of Graham Elliott…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
SoundOn with Sono Sanctus
What if .gifs didn't have to be silent? In this Motionographer Q&A, we chat with Wesley Slover to find out a bit more about his…
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Joe Donaldson • 6 years ago
Nickelodeon Global Rebrand | Project Breakdown
[…] traditional Motion Design studio nearly 20 years ago, and have grown up in every which way. In general, we like to think our clients…
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Staff • 9 months ago
Poll: New Windows or Not?
[…] now on Motionographer, external links open in the same window, because I figured if people wanted new windows, they would right-click on the link…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Interview: Freestyle Collective
[…] a lot of work. But instead of becoming hyper-sensitive to trends, I think I’ve become desensitized. I don’t even see them sometimes. I think…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Andy Rutledge’s “The Opposite of Professional”
[…] of Professional,” a diatribe that argues, among other things, that design professionalism cannot be instilled through higher education. After reading it a few times,…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
NATPE 2010 Coverage
[…] eyes, “the death of the sitcom has been greatly exaggerated…” NATPE 2010 Day Two: Of Conan, iPads and addressability There were a lot of…
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Dominique Elliott • 15 years ago
Freelance Standards of Practice
At some point in their careers, freelancers have probably asked themselves perfectly reasonable questions like, “How did a 10-hour day become standard?” And “Why are…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Gabe Askew’s Ten By Ten Q&A:
[…] Weeks video. While both were made with 3D, the Two Weeks video appeared to be stop-motion and this one is much slicker and harder-edged……
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Interview with James Curran: ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ Unofficial Title Sequence
[…] to read them it was obvious that it would be too difficult to pick out individual recognizable events from each story as there are…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
What it takes to be “Original”
[…] finding a unique enough idea that I could commit to. There were so many different styles and avenues I was inspired by that it became…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
School Profile: CalArts
Conceived by Walt Disney in 1960 and established through a merger of two older art schools, CalArts is one of the nation's premiere institutions for…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Understanding Patrick Clair
Ever wonder what makes Patrick Clair’s work so darn good? Nol Honig sits down with the Emmy Award-winning title designer to find out. Hint: it’s…
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Nol Honig • 7 years ago
5 Questions To Consider When Creating Styleframes
By Caroline Le, host of The Styleframe Saturdays podcast.
Caroline Le • 1 year ago
4stroke Magic
[…] to a couple of them, and I thought I’d share them with you. These won’t suit everyone’s taste (in fact, I’m sure I’ll get…
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Justin Cone • 19 years ago
Things Growing Out of Women’s Bodies
[…] caught a post about Butterfly, a beautiful vfx short created by Quad and Wizz in Paris. It reminded me of something I’d seen a…
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Justin Cone • 19 years ago