Articles and Interviews
A Conversation with Mate Steinforth April 18, 2012 Go! SXSW 2012: Animated Shorts April 10, 2012 Go! Motionographer’s Role in the Industry (Right Now) April…
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Justin Cone • 19 years ago
La Linea & Estacao Sigma
La Linea is an Italian cartoon series created by Osvaldo Cavandoli. Bibi’s Blog already said everything you need to know about this series so I’ll…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Saving the World, One Animation at Time
I was reading through the latest issue of Discover magazine, when I came across an interesting interview conducted by Jennifer Barone. She was chatting with…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Motionographer Team
For the love of the work Motionographer is an all-volunteer organization run by professional artists, designers and directors in our spare time. We don’t make any…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
EP Banter: Talent, Trends & Technique
What is an Executive Producer? This role may go unnoticed by many of us, but the success of a company is often defined by this…
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Matt Lambert • 15 years ago
LAIKA: Tostitos “The Amazing Flamenco Chef” (Updated with Q&A)
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/laika_tostitos.mov 640 360] Interview The following is an interview with Laika House’s Nicholas Weigel, director of “The Amazing Flamenco Dancer” and Motionographer’s Lauren Indovina. Lauren…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
2010 AICP Results
Fresh from the 2010 AICP Awards at MoMA in NYC, we’ve got the results to share. Top production companies are MJZ (12 honors), Biscuit (5),…
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Matt Lambert • 14 years ago
State of Design 2011 Playlist
This is the playlist of videos from Justin Cone’s PromaxBDA State of Design 2011 presentation. In most cases, credits are on the linked pages. Thanks…
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Justin Cone • 13 years ago
A Conversation with Mate Steinforth
Recently we’ve seen more and more of Sehsucht, and with good reason: they’ve steadily been building steam through the years, and it’s culminating in some…
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Ivan Cruz • 12 years ago
Lagoa Launches, Blows Minds
I was invited to the beta of Lagoa.com (then called TeamUp) several months ago, and even in that early stage it blew my mind. As…
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Justin Cone • 11 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
What it takes to be “Original”
What is originality? Does it even exist? If so, how can we be original? Those are the questions that haunted Toronto-based designer Andrew Vucko as…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
VR storytelling wars begin, but will anyone be watching?
As predicted in my earth-shattering post, “6 Motion Design Industry Predictions for 2015,” augmented reality (AR) platforms like Magic Leap and Microsoft Hololens and virtual…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Jay Quercia
Brooklyn-based freelance illustrator and animator Jay Quercia updates with a slick new site and a boatload of new projects. I’ve had the privilege of working closely with Jay, and time and…
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Joe Donaldson • 10 years ago
Tendril, relaunching and repositioning in a shifting landscape
Toronto-based Tendril relaunched their web presence today, joining the growing number of nimble, mid-sized shops repositioning themselves in response to the hand-writing on the wall: …
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Motion design education: MoGraph Mentor
My recent op-ed post, “6 Problems with Motion Design Education,” looked at challenges facing students and educators through the lens of brick-and-mortar design schools. But over the last 20…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Kenesha Sneed updates
Lovely illustrations by Kenesha Sneed.
Igor Sordokhonov • 9 years ago
Adam Plouff: Building Tools for Animators
“If I’m known for anything, it’s the utilization of some of the more obscure features in After Effects and a weirdo obsession with mathematical phenomena,”…
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Erica Gorochow • 9 years ago
Monument Valley creators to release VR game, Land’s End
Can the makers of Monument Valley repeat their success — in virtual reality?
Justin Cone • 9 years ago
A mobile game made entirely out of clay?
The visuals for Tiny Passengers, a new mobile puzzle game from Shape Minds launching in iTunes today, were created almost entirely in clay. Check out…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Making the Motionographer Patreon launch video
We go deep with Michelle Higa Fox (Slanted Studios) and Erica Gorochow (PepRally) about the making of the Motionographer launch video for its Patreon campaign.…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Late Night Work Club is here to save 2016
Let's face it, 2016 has been a weird and divisive year. Thankfully, Late Night Work Club is back to instill hope and unite us all…
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Joe Donaldson • 8 years ago
Making waves with Punanimation
Meet Punanimation, the new directory of women, trans and non-binary people working with animation and motion graphics.
Joe Donaldson • 7 years ago
