Crafting graphics for the Oscars: An interview with Henry Hobson
[…] design has evolved to be able to do that now, and it seemed like a great marriage, to tell the story of the film…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Nickelodeon Global Rebrand | Project Breakdown
[…] my team insane. In development, we had imagined mashing all these things together and had so many ideas, but it was still just a…
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Staff • 8 months ago
La Linea & Estacao Sigma
[…] great use of traditional animation techniques like squash and stretch. I especially like the moment we see the character through a simulated fish eye…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Atelier Transfert: Watch and Learn
[…] for a high impact on the educational front—especially when demonstrating a recipe or technique. With stop-motion, you can achieve the precision of an illustrated…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
EP Banter: Talent, Trends & Technique
[…] Our directors are the creative powerhouse at Passion Pictures, and we look to them to meet these creative challenges. They do this by creating…
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Matt Lambert • 15 years ago
LAIKA: Tostitos “The Amazing Flamenco Chef” (Updated with Q&A)
[…] many examples of visual reference to get things started. The designers/board artists and the rest of the team discussed the flow of the story…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Chicken or Egg?
[…] + Hal Kirkland + Magico Nakamura + Masayoshi Nakamura 2009 Pepsi vs. Google Pepsi Refresh Project Demi Moore for GEMS by TBWA / Chiat…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago
GoldRunner, Vivian Rosenthal and Augmented Reality
I cut my teeth on motion design at turn of the 21st century, when the desktop computer revolution was in full swing. A handful of…
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Justin Cone • 12 years ago
Ouroboros: AE Preset
After Effects wizard Sander Van Dijk has created a very powerful AE preset that will help you with all your stroke related needs. With the…
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Joe Donaldson • 10 years ago
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
Making the Motionographer Patreon launch video
[…] the chance to use this project as a creative excuse. Erica Characters helped us to get a little weird and move away from something overly…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Interview: Kylie Matulick and Todd Mueller of Psyop
[…] They came to us with the basic premise, which was really cool, and then we spent a couple days kind of thinking about it,…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Smith & Foulkes for PLATFORM
[…] been one lonely little white box. Some semi-technical details: “Smith & Foulkes used a Canon Digital SLR camera linked up to a laptop allowing…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Timewatch “Bloody Omaha”
[…] run up and down the sand, as I operate the Z1 camera. They carefully plan it so that each run is in a different…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Encoding Video for the Web with QuickTime Pro
[…] to try out, but H.264 still comes out on top. Stick with it, as it will give you the best quality for the file…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Gary film interview
[…] additional 2d animation, 2D sets, contour vibrating…). The flat look on the character was made by calculating a reference shadow in 3d and retouching…
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Jon Saunders • 16 years ago
Baby I’m Yours Q&A
[…] inevitable computerized interpretation and post-processing. What was your process like in making all the aquarelle paintings? Were you working off of filmed / rotoscoped…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago
OK Go “End Love” – Masters of the One Take Music Video, by Gunther and Lieberman
[…] has hot-swappable data cards, so you can continuously record the entire 18 hours without stopping .. this covers from real-time to 512x (and you…
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Ryan Rothermel • 14 years ago
Lucas Zanotto for TUI
[…] Canon 7D. The set was lit with two soft boxes. The postproduction was done in After Effects. The character is built in different mask…
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Austin Shaw • 14 years ago
SXSW 2012: Beauty is Embarrassing
[…] buzz I’ve ever had. That’s what drove me so hard. That’s what made me work all night – just to see that little guy…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 12 years ago
“The Bear and The Hare” for John Lewis
[…] characters against the background which I’m guessing is a combination of miniature and 3D backgrounds. From the press release: ‘The marriage of traditional hand-drawn 2D…
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Lilian Darmono • 11 years ago
Commercial work with boundaries: the commissioned work model
[…] was crucial. I worked with Julie to refine the story we would tell and write the script. I then presented: a mood board pencil…
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Joe Donaldson • 10 years ago
Welcome to Motionographer 3.0
[…] fully responsive, even though we don’t own all of these devices. Pro tips Try these things: In a hurry? Click images with play buttons…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
