Digital Domain: Learning Skills Council
VFX titans Digital Domain have launched a new site chock full of amazing work. One that leaped out at me was this interesting spot for…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
A New Model: Hooray or Nay?
I got an email recently from The Radar Festival about a new initiative they’ve launched. Here’s the gist of it straight from the horse’s mouth:…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Psyop for Orangina
Psyop’s Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick (who brought us Coke “Happiness Factory”) directed an oddly steamy spot for the bubbly French beverage Orangina. It’s only…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Motion Theory for Weezer and O2
Weezer “Pork and Beans” Motion Theory co-founder and director Mathew Cullen has been busy lately. There’s a good chance you’ve already seen his music video…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
PepperMelon: E.L.A., Meet the Fat Farts
PepperMelon has been hard at work on two short (but surprisingly epic) films that are sure to brighten up your week. “ELA in Love at…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Gobelins Students Do it Again: Oktapodi
Although it was created in 2007, the student short film from Gobelins, “Oktapodi,” has finally been released into the wild. (Ha, given the storyline of…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Prologue: Fall ’08 Updates
‘Tis the season for updating websites, and Prologue is the latest in a happy rash of relaunches and refreshes. Four new projects have hit their…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
What’s In the Box?
“What in the Box?” is the extremely ambitious “test film” created by a Dutch students Tim Smit and Thibaut Niels that’s been heating up YouTube—and…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Meteor Studios’ Unpaid Artists UPDATE
UPDATE: Sept 22, 2009 According to Dave Rand, the case is now closed. The Canadian Labor Board has now negotiated payment of 70% of what…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
The Nature Between Us: Q&A with Will Campbell and Jett Steiger
Back in 2007, as students at the Savannah College of Art and Design, William Campbell teamed up with Anh Vu to create The Lemon Tree,…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Alex Roman: TheThird&TheSeventh
Some philosophies of aesthetics enumerate seven primary art forms derived from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s “Lectures on the Aesthetics” and the writings of film theorist…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Yellow Cake
Yellow Cake is a new short film by Nick Cross, an Ottawa-based animator who has worked for everyone from Nickelodeon to Spumco over the course…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Fairness For Visual Effects Artists: Q&A
Q&A: Your letter to James Cameron this week has stirred up a lot of discussion in the Motion Design and Visual Effects fields about the…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Rise and Fall Q&A:
Boards Interactive Magazine – Walkthrough Questions: How did this project come about? What was the initial brief from ‘boards magazine? We were contacted by Nexus…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
GEL 2010 T&F Q&A
The original styleframe board which T&F presented. What was the brief for this piece, and how did you approach coming up with the concept? The…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago
Lucas Zanotto for TUI
What can you make with paper cut-outs, fishing line, a hole puncher, and a Canon 7D? Lucas Zanotto shows us with his live action animation…
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Austin Shaw • 14 years ago
Bronte: by Ari and Jason for Gotye
Gotye – Bronte – official film clip from Gotye on Vimeo. Pitch Frames (Ari Gibson) Can you tell us briefly how did the…
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Lilian Darmono • 13 years ago
L’Odyssée de Cartier
Released today, a crazy 3:30 Minute piece directed by Bruno Aveillan, nearly two years in the making with a team of 50 people. Details to…
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Mate Steinforth • 13 years ago
Lucas Zanotto: The Real Bears
Here in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg recently championed some controversial restrictions on the sale of sugary soda drinks, sparking debates about how much government…
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Justin Cone • 12 years ago
Factory Fifteen: Jonah
Kibwe Tavares’ vision for “Jonah” is a unique one. Though the film is laden with visual effects from Factory Fifteen and Jellyfish Pictures, they are…
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Justin Cone • 11 years ago
Digital Currency and You.
As our industry changes, it’s important to keep an eye on how trends in the wider world can affect us. While Motionographer does not specifically…
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Elliot Blanchard • 11 years ago
Q&A with Eric Glatt, former intern who sued Fox Searchlight
Eric Glatt is a former intern on the film Black Swan who, along with Alex Footman, sued Fox Searchlight for unpaid wages related to his…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 11 years ago
Elastic: MTV Video Music Awards 2014 (case study + interview)
Brandon Lori dives deep into the elegant package for MTV's signature event.
Brandon Lori • 10 years ago
6 motion design industry predictions for 2015
Somehow, 2015 is here. So I dug up my crystal ball (a Times Square snow globe from 1987), put on some trance-inducing music and visited the…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago