Sean Pecknold: Fleet Foxes “White Winter Hymnal”
“White Winter Hymnal,” a stop-action music video directed by Sean Pecknold for Seattle band Fleet Foxes, is a quietly beautiful meditation on nature and time.…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Cream O’ the Crop Criteria
The Cream O’ the Crop is Motionographer’s opinion of the best of the best studios and individuals in the fields of motion graphics, visual effects…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
ManvsMachine: “Space”
Better late than never, I always say. This beautiful brand piece from Man vs. Machine made the rounds last week, but we were a little…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Maxon Announces Cinema 4D R11
Maxon announced features of its upcoming Cinema 4D R11 release at SIGGRAPH yesterday. Here are some juicy bits from the press release: CINEMA 4D R11…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Fox Sports Design: NASCAR “Engine City”
Fox Sports Design has a long history of raising the bar for broadcast promos. I’m not sure how this one slipped past our radar, but…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Dvein and Alex Trochut: Voll Damm Jazz
[Slow? Try the Motionographer mirror] Barcelona badasses Dvein and Alex Trochut teamed up on this stylish spot (Motionographer mirror) for Spanish beer-maker Voll Damm and…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Amit Zakai: A Micrometer From Here
For his graduation project at the HIT School of Design in Israel, Amit Zakai mashed up the aesthetics of early cinema with poetic musings on…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Motionographer Podcast 01: This Way Up
The highly decorated animation direction duo Smith & Foulkes of Nexus Productions have recently unveiled their new animated short “This Way Up.” Created for Mike…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
King & Country Takes Us On The Ride
Santa Monica based King and Country creates a lush world, filled with fun details and a clever metaphor for their new internal project. “The Ride,” loosely follows…
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Staff • 16 years ago
GOOD: The Hidden Cost of War
I love GOOD’s Transparency series. By combinging great writing with clean, concise visuals, GOOD consistently produces top-notch visual essays that treat viewers like intelligent beings.…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Passion Pictures/Pete Candeland for Rock Band 2
UPDATE: High-res QuickTime here Building on their previous success working with Passion Pictures’ Pete Candeland, Harmonix invited the director to helm the trailer for Rock…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
VFS: Perfect the way we are
Vancouver Film School alumni and faculty teamed up to create Perfectthewayweare.ca, a website and visual essay attempting to bring some of Canada’s pressing social and…
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Justin Cone • 16 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
Nervo: “Paper Airplane”
Paper Airplane is a collaboration between Nervo and agency start-up muh-tay-zik for communications technology company, Premiere Global Services. The animation does a wonderful job of…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 16 years ago
C4 Creative Clinic: November 19, Toronto
Promax|BDA is launching a new half-day event on November 19th in Toronto. Dubbed C4, the event is targeted at “creative promotion, marketing and design professionals…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Bakers Precious Biscuits
Agency Ogilvy Johannesburg rounded up a talented threesome to create this fantastical journey through an enchated land of fairy tale creatures besotted by Bakers biscuits.…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Wuppertal 2050
Wuppertal, Germany is not a likely locale for para-military gunfights and flying car chases—at least not yet. Fueled by a fund from Medienprojekt Wuppertal, a…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Autofuss 001: Katelyn
You may recall that we interviewed an internal motion design team at agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners that went by the name The Action Cats.…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Kris Moyes: Beck “Youthless”
Animator and live action director Kris Moyes never ceases to amaze me—and his latest music video for Beck’s “Youthless” is no exception. “Youthless” is pure…
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Boca Ceravolo • 16 years ago
Alan Poon Animates the Struggle Between Man and Nature
Take a few minutes out to be sucked in by Director Alan Poon‘s music video for “In Our Talons” by the Bowerbirds. This beautiful track…
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Matt Lambert • 16 years ago
F5 RE:PLAY FILM FESTIVAL
One of the driving ideals behind F5 is the celebration of creativity for creativity’s sake. Money might make the world go ’round, but it doesn’t…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Reminder: Cut & Paste Call for Competitors
This is just a quick reminder that Cut&Paste‘s North American call for competitors ends in one week, on January 23rd. Get that entry form filled…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Caviar & Nicographics for Towa Tei’s ‘Mind Wall’
The Japanese did it again! Been a while since I watched a music video that ticks all the right boxes. Is well-paced, not draggy. Has…
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Lilian Darmono • 16 years ago
Karni & Saul: Float
A few weeks ago, Flynn Productions directorial duo Karni & Saul completed this music video for Flogging Molly’s latest single Float. The video follows a…
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Matt Lambert • 16 years ago