Magic Leap… no, for real this time
Augmented reality startup Magic Leap made headlines last year when it raised over $540 million dollars in funding while still managing to hide its plans from…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
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
Trollback+Company does TV Land (Again)
TV Land has been in need of a refresh for some time now. They commissioned Buck to do some brilliant IDs a few months back,…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Universal Everything Refreshes MTV
Universal Everything’s recent refresh for MTV’s 64 international channels is notable for what it DOES NOT do. As opposed to MTV’s long-standing tradition of constantly…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
NATPE 2010 Coverage
Photo by Todd Ehlers NATPE 2010 Day One: “It’s the content, stupid!” There is no better place to get a snapshot of the state of…
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Dominique Elliott • 15 years ago
In-Depth Coverage: Stylefames NY Opener
Conference openers have become the vehicle of choice for many studios to show what they can do without an overbearing client or agency brief hemming…
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Staff • 12 years ago
Nico Casavecchia: “A Boy And His Atom” The World’s Smallest Movie
Working with animation studio Punga,1stAveMachine’s Nico Casavecchia had the honor of creating the world’s first movie at the scale of individual atoms — the world’s…
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Staff • 11 years ago
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
The all-star crew behind the reboot of a classic TV series brings something sorely needed in science: art direction.
Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Q&A: Dark Noir
Maybe there's an approach to crowdsourcing that isn't creatively repulsive or ethically bankrupt. Here's how Red Knuckles, Rafael Grampá and Absolut worked with a few…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Superteam proves power of collaboration in title sequence for FITC Tokyo
To kick off the FITC Tokyo 2015 conference, a superteam of artists working around the world (and sometimes around the clock) created a sublimely glitchy…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
In Pieces: A rare specimen of CSS-based animation
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) started as a way to conveniently manage the appearance of images and type across an entire website. Since 1996, CSS has…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
How Firstborn became an agency without losing its soul
When I stepped off the elevators and into Firstborn’s headquarters, I thought maybe I’d made a mistake. I’ve been to quite a few agencies. No…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Interview: The Lessons Behind We Are Royale’s Manifesto
Surviving eight years as a motion design studio is no easy feat. In addition to riding the unpredictable ebb and flow of service work, motion design…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Poland rising: Juice studio explains why we’ll be seeing more Polish talent soon
Poland is bristling with CG talent, and our interview with Juice studio explains why. We also dig into the technical details behind the promotional short,…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
How to change the world (and get paid for it): Making SolarCity “How Energy Gets To You”
Learn how a group of passionate environmentalists used innovative production techniques to tell stories that genuinely matter to them — all while getting paid.
Justin Cone • 9 years ago
What does heart-based leadership have to do with my creative potential?
A leader of the heart: Are you one of them? #6 is a series of compact, heart-charged articles where executive coach Marie Reig Florensa –…
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Marie Reig Florensa • 3 months ago
airFIELD Sculpture by Dan Goods
airFIELD is a mesmerizingly beautiful example of “physical animation” — animation that takes place in physical space, free from the pixel-based surfaces that traditionally act as motion design media.…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Interview: Kylie Matulick and Todd Mueller of Psyop
By now you’ve probably seen "Happiness Factory," Psyop’s masterpiece for Coke and agency Wieden+Kennedy, several times. If you’re anything like me, you’ve scrubbed through it…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Interview: Quayola
Quayola at MUV festival in Florence, Italy. Watch Architectural Density Watch Path to Abstraction – Live A/V show Rome – S. Agnese Lambda Print –…
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Babe Baker • 17 years ago
Goobees!
Goobees is a fantastic and twisted short film made by four grad students at Texas A&M. In order to not be a spoiler for the…
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Jon Saunders • 17 years ago
Eric Lerner Goes Global for Coke
NOTE: If the above link is slow, try our mirrored version here. Following up on the success of his Mr. City Men series, Partizan’s Eric…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
W+K & Tokyoplastic’s Bundle for Nokia Music
W+K London’s recent campaign for Nokia, “Music Alrighty” has a been the source of a handful of strange pieces of work. To start, Tokyoplastic completed…
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Matt Lambert • 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
Method/Kuntz Take On XBox
Tom Kuntz brings his peculiarly familiar sense of humor to XBox’s “Lips” with the help of Method. This last campaign from TAG joins the company…
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Matt Lambert • 16 years ago