Mass Market: Air Force “Csar”
[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/CSAR_60.mov 848 480] Title: Csar Client: United States Air Force Agency: GSD&M Idea City, Austin Executive Creative Director: Mark Taylor Group Creative Directors: Tom Gilmore,…
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Brandon Lori • 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
Masterpieces in 3D
Masterpieces in 3D EDIT: Link Broken: Sorry, folks! Found a new one … D’oh! Gone again…
Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago
Eric Xu’s ‘Balloon’
Eric Xu’s graduation thesis piece from SVA features some nice art direction, lovely character design for the main little fella, and a dark twist at…
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Lilian Darmono • 14 years ago
Eric Alba and his Adjustable-Height #VFX Tracking Marker Poles
Eric Alba and his Adjustable-Height #VFX Tracking Marker Poles. Really generous and thorough D.I.Y tutorial, from a stereoscopic feature he is working on.
Ryan Rothermel • 14 years ago
MTV 55DSL + EMA 2010
These all came out at the same time, so we thought we’d do a short and sweet round-up post showcasing everything! First we have five…
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Boca Ceravolo • 14 years ago
See No Evil February
Put Tuesday 1st February into your diary! See No Evil presents an evening with Foreign Office. Hear No Evil after party with Oli D.A.B. Entrance…
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James Wignall • 14 years ago
See No Evil Tomorrow Night
Londoners, See No Evil is tomorrow night! Come along and be inspired by an evening with Foreign Office. Afterwards party the night away with Hear…
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James Wignall • 14 years ago
The Backwater Gospel
The infamous Animation Workshop hit hard this time, churning out a really impressive production, which is way ahead of what you’d expect from a student…
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Mate Steinforth • 14 years ago
TREAT: E4 Christmas
The sun’s blazing outside, so I thought I’d cast your minds back to Christmas with these brilliant idents for E4 by London animation collective TREAT
David Wilson • 13 years ago
Jon Balcome: “Bird” A Decent Animal
From the site: “Bird” is the thesis film/music video of Jon Balcome, an MFA Visual Effects student at Savannah College of Art and Design, and…
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Justin Cone • 13 years ago
Michel Gagné: Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
I don’t have an Xbox, but if I did, right now I’d be playing Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, created by Joe Olson and Michel Gagné.…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
Terry Gilliam’s cutout animation tutorial
A blast from the past! The youthful Terry Gilliam explaining the methods behind his cutout animations.This has been circulating the interwebs for a bit, and…
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Lilian Darmono • 13 years ago
CANADA: Oh Land ‘White Nights’
How do you spell delightful juxtaposition? C-A-N-A-D-A. New music video for Oh Land’s “White Nights.” Lady Gaga should hire these guys already.
Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
Antoine Bardou Jacquet + The Mill: Müller “Wünderful Stuff”
Partizan’s Antoine Bardou Jacquet directed “Wünderful Stuff,” a comically epic spot for yogurt brand Müller and agency TBWA\London. The Mill slam-dunked the VFX work, making…
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Staff • 13 years ago
Oscar Nominees 2012: Best Animated Short Film
The nominations for the 84th Academy Awards are in, and although they were announced last week, we thought we’d dig up snippets of each flick for…
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Brandon Lori • 13 years ago
[Dublin] OFFSET March 9-11
If I was in Dublin, I’d be at OFFSET this March 9th-11th. Check it out.
Justin Cone • 13 years ago
Callum Cooper: Full Circle
Callum Cooper creates eerie, poetic short films using his own DIY custom camera rigs. I’d love to see an instructables or kickstarter campaign for tools…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 13 years ago
Xiangjun Shi: Why Do I Study Physics?
Physics and animation are not often bedfellows, but in the hands of Xiangjun “Shixie” Shi, they seem as natural a pairing as space and time.…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Elements of Design
Matt Greenwood’s buttery smooth “Elements of Design” is a high-speed buffet of some key concepts behind motion graphic design. I’d love to try it as…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Make it Sound FAT
If you’ve ever suspected that dubstep might lead to an apocalypse, this rollicking short from Bellecour Ecoles d’Art students will confirm your fears. Wonderfully paced…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures
Stanford design instructor John Edmark has rethought the zoetrope with beautiful 3D-printed sculptures that animate when filmed in sync with a strobe light. Explains Edmark: These are…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Making “Party Pooper,” a browser-based game from Animade
"For anyone trying to make a game as a small project, I’d recommend scaling it back to make it manageable — focus on the core…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
SoundOn with Sono Sanctus
What if .gifs didn't have to be silent? In this Motionographer Q&A, we chat with Wesley Slover to find out a bit more about his…
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Joe Donaldson • 5 years ago