Neil Gaiman’s Commencement Address 2012

Neil Gaiman addresses Philadelphia’s University of the Arts 2012 graduating class.  Incredibly inspiring.

Matt Hunter Ross • 12 years ago

Blender: Tears of Steel

If you can stomach the acting, there’s some impressive CG work in “Tears of Steel,” the latest open source short from the Blender Foundation. Like… Read more

Justin Cone • 12 years ago

Onesize for Warde: “Home Is A Quest” (Director’s Cut)

Onesize branches into character work with this very nice – and very inventive – piece for Warde. Personal favorite: momma bird. There is a lot… Read more

Elliot Blanchard • 12 years ago

Plenty: NICK ID’s

New stuff from Plenty! With these ID’s for NICK, they have created a nice “handmade look” combining frame-by-frame animation and 3D. You can check out more… Read more

Fabricio Lima • 11 years ago

Antfood’s frenetic sound design reel

Antfood’s 35-second sound design reel is a frenetic, fun romp for the eyes and ears.

Justin Cone • 11 years ago

Virgilio Villoresi: John Mayer “Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967”

Milan-based Virgilio Villoresi uses the pre-cinema technique, ombro cinema, to animate the drawings made by Virginia Mori. Everything was filmed in live-action, no post production… Read more

Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago

Pinata for McDonald’s

Beautiful, wonderfully animated piece by Pinata for McDonald’s

Elliot Blanchard • 11 years ago

Late Night Work Club: Ghost Stories

Late Night Work Club is Dave Prosser, Charles Huettner, Sean Buckelew, Jake Armstrong & Erin Kilkenny, Caleb Wood, Louise Bagnall, Alex Grigg, Conor Finnegan, Ciaran… Read more

Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago

Jonathan Jarvis and Ray Dalio: How the Economic Machine Works

Jonathan Jarvis burst onto the scene (or at least onto Motionographer’s homepage) back in 2009, when he created an extremely helpful 10-minute animation, “The Crisis… Read more

Justin Cone • 11 years ago

Ash Thorp: Ender’s Game UI Design

Ash Thorp has posted his staggering UI design work for Ender’s Game on his personal site.

Justin Cone • 11 years ago

Pingo van der Brinkloev: It’s Paper

Pingo van der Brinkloev explores C4D paper shaders with some nice loops in It’s Paper.

Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago

Blur’s impressive VFX breakdown for Thor 2

Blur’s VFX breakdown for the prologue battle battle sequence in Thor 2 is worth a watch.

Justin Cone • 11 years ago

2Veinte’s latest reel brims with bold typography

Come for the type, stay for the reel. 2veinte’s 2014 reel is bursting with bold colors and typographic play.

Justin Cone • 11 years ago

Ender’s Game motion graphics reel

The Ender’s Game motion graphics reels is every bit as epic as you’d expect. Lead Graphics Designer Ash Thorp and Lead Motion Graphics Artist Jayse… Read more

Justin Cone • 11 years ago

Pixar’s RenderMan free for non-commercial use

Pixar’s RenderMan will be free for non-commercial use. Submitted by vdavidtv via reddit

Justin Cone • 10 years ago

Steve Scott: Time’s the Charm

The talented Steve Scott returns with this elegantly crafted film for John Lobb via Not To Scale.  Steve’s charming illustrations capture the subtle tones of… Read more

Andrew Montague • 10 years ago

How Pixar, Dreamworks, Lucasfilm and others kept wages artificially low

Wage-suppression conspiracy involved some of the world's most admired tech companies... and animation studios.

Staff • 10 years ago

Adobe CMO Stats

The bevy of elegant and sometimes surprising transitions that pepper this explainer video for Adobe never upstage the real star of the video: the red… Read more

Justin Cone • 10 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

Code and motion, exploring new frontiers with Marcus Eckert

The video above is an iPhone screen capture taken from Reuters TV, an on-demand news app created by one of the largest news agencies in… Read more

Justin Cone • 10 years ago

The Line: Amaro and Walden’s Joyride

Dang. So much attitude and animation skill in The Line‘s latest short, Amaro and Walden. Warning some bits are NSFW. Don’t miss the full making of… Read more

Erica Gorochow • 9 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

Daniel Oeffinger, finger puppets & Buck’s special POV

Daniel Oeffinger and Buck NY dive head — well, in this case, hand first into the world of finger puppets to create this brilliantly fun new series… Read more

Joe Donaldson • 8 years ago

Spider man says it’s not how big your title sequence is, it’s how you use it. All about Perception! Motion Award recipient.

Join the party and see how we play. Submit to The 2020 Motion Awards!

Millie Verastegui • 4 years ago