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
Sean Pecknold – Fleet Foxes ‘Mykonos’
Remember White Winter Hymnal? Sean Pecknold’s debut Fleet Foxes video with the killer hand-crank star trails shot? Pecknold (aka Grandchildren) just completed a beautiful new…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 16 years ago
Made for Each Other
As part of Frito Lay’s “Made for Each Other” campaign, two Motionographer favorites have created two decidedly adorable mini-shorts about finding true love. Although they’re…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Poll: Shepard Fairey
Over in the Quickies, I recently tossed up an interview with Milton Glaser regarding the work of Shepard Fairey, and it sparked some heated discussion.…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Anima Istanbul: IF 2009 “Zoetrope”
For Instanbul’s IF 2009 independent film festival, Ayse Unal of Anima Istanbul teamed up with compositor Ilhan Poyraz to reinterpret the experience of watching a…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Stu Maschwitz
By now, most of you have probably heard that The Orphanage has suspended operations. (Co-founder Stu Maschwitz explains further on his blog.) This is as…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Guilherme Marcondes Crafts Worlds for British Gas
Director Guilherme Marcondes recently completed a lovingly hand-crafted spot for British Gas with Hornet. Guilherme’s unique artistic and directorial vision – evident from his short-films…
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Jake Sargeant • 16 years ago
Scintillation by Xavier Chassaing
Scintillation is a remarkable experimental piece by young director Xavier Chassaing. This piece stands on it’s own purely for its visuals, but the technique and…
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Jon Saunders • 16 years ago
David O’Reilly: When You’re Smiling
Pictoplasma, the global clearing house for contemporary character design and art, commissioned director David O’Reilly to create the show open for Pictopia, the Pictoplasma exhibition…
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Lauren Indovina • 16 years ago
2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
[qt:http://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/avso-ford_i4.mov 640 480] Credits Client: Ford Spot Title: “Sync”, “Hybrid”, “I-4” Air Date: 3/3/09 Agency: JWT/Team Detroit ECD: Toby Barlow AD: Curtis Melville Copywriter: Steve…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
The Lost Tribes of New York City
As someone who has an intense love-hate relationship with New York, this sweetly animated film from Andy and Carolyn London tugged hard on my heartstrings.…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Making Of: Seattle International Film Festival 2009
Our previous post about Digital Kitchen’s work for the Seattle International Film Festival tickled my curiosity: How exactly were the animation rigs set up? How…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago