Motionographer Classic Quickie: Director Gavin Rothery hosts a great review of groundbreaking analog VFX techniques with a series of videos peeking inside 1980s Industrial Light… Read more
Classic Quickie: Before Michel Gondry got big with clever videos, Zbig Rybczynski explored epic loops in his 1983 Academy Award-winning Tango. Excellent write-up at Not… Read more
Motionographer Classic Quickie: orders of magnitude in time and space: Al Jarnow’s Cosmic Clock, Charles and Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten, and Bud Luckey’s That’s… Read more
Motionographer Classic Quickie: Optical Printer Edition. Check out FXPHD’s article on the optical printer for some hardcore old school compositing. And while you’re at it,… Read more
Motionographer Classic Quickie: Richard Williams’ animation masterpiece: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut on YouTube in eleven parts. Read more about the film’s tumultuous… Read more
Motionographer Classic Quickie: Peter Ellenshaw’s special effects in Disney’s Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959). Part 1 (matte painting) and Part 2 (forced perspective).
Incredible series of idents designed by Frans Schupp in 1982 for Dutch public broadcaster VARA. Schupp’s intern Robin Noorda (now an independent animator) recently restored… Read more
Motionographer Classic Quickie: Jim Henson’s surreal commercials for Wilkins Coffee, Linit Fabric Finish, Pak Nit RX, and the lovable LaChoy Dragon. Spotted at AMMI’s Jim… Read more