Important Looking Pirates for Oscar Magnuson

This is kind of a super-Quickie: In collaboration with Oscar Magnuson Spectacles, Stockholm-based Important Looking Pirates created some interesting animations for an installation. Each undersea… Read more

BNS – Zune “Stacks”

Brand New School releases “Stacks” for Microsoft’s Zune audio player. Says BNS: First we designed twelve albums featuring the most exciting fake artists of our time.… Read more

Cassiano Prado for ZeroUm

Cassiano Prado has released another project in his minimalist series of works for music group ZeroUm. As with the live visuals he created for the… Read more

Nokia Style Guide

Taking illustrations from James Taylor as their starting point, James “Mutanthands” Wignall and co-animator Mark Warrington built a little Pied Piper narrative for agency fivefootsix,… Read more

My Paperhouse On Fire

Sebastian Haslauer and Sebastian Koch lovingly crafted this new music video for phon°noir’s “My Paperhouse On Fire.” The Dada-esque collage style is punctuated throughout by… Read more

AENY: Thursday, June 26th

It’s getting near that time again, and After Effects New York has a nice one-two punch coming up this Thursday, June 26th from 6:45 to… Read more

Big Star’s 2008 Showreel

Kromag #05

Kromag #05: featuring King&Country, Hue Visualab, Björn Bartholdy, BL:ND, Tronic, Loyalkaspar & Shilo’s We Make It Good

Motion +61 DVD: Volume 2

Motion +61 DVD: Volume 2 has been released, and it looks promising. The showcase of Australian talent includes work from Collider, CO-OP, Monkeylab, Qube Konstrukt,… Read more

Costs of War

QuickTime version “Costs of War” is exactly the kind of thing that makes me believe in motion graphics. For the moment, put the subject matter… Read more

New Interview: The Action Cats

Back in April, when Adobe and Cut&Paste announced the winners of the See What’s Possible Challenge, one entry really stood out to me. "The Experiment"… Read more

New Interview: Sehsucht

Motionographer’s Jon Saunders decided it was high time we learn more about one of our favorite studios, Hamburg-based Sehsucht, so he contacted them for an… Read more

Universal Everything / Nokia

Universal Everything recently updated with a whole host of new work to tickle your visual taste buds. One piece that particularly stood out for me… Read more

Advanced Beauty Podcast

Advanced Beauty is now available as a weekly podcast (link will open in iTunes). We’ve been following Advanced Beauty with great enthusiasm here on Motionographer… Read more

Crush and REM Strike Again

After their first well received collaboration with REM (Hollow Man), Crush follows up with “Man Sized Wreath.” This piece deals with an anonymous man’s daily… Read more

Welcome to the Industry Feed

Welcome to Motionographer’s new Industry feed. In this area, you’ll find news about: new studios and new hires technology announcements relevant business deals and budding… Read more

Welcome to the Students Feed

Welcome to Motionographer’s new Students feed. Whether you’re still in school or simply a newbie to the world of motion design, this area will serve… Read more

JibJab: Election 2008

JibJab’s latest effort actually has some really nice design and animation. Props to the JibJab crew for not mailing it in. (No pun intended.)

Kung Fu Panda Intro

Animation guru James Baxter’s 2D intro for Dreamsworks’ latest.