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Andy Rutledge’s “The Opposite of Professional”

A friend of mine passed me Andy Rutledge’s “The Opposite of Professional,” a diatribe that argues, among other things, that design professionalism cannot be instilled… Read more

Rebus Farms Gets Off To A Running Start

Rebus Farms has just officially opened their doors. Keep a look out for this mini-powerhouse headed up by Dan Bryant, Ian Prior, and Erin Sarofsky.… Read more

Going Deeper into “Sea Orchestra”

We wanted to know more about the recently posted “Sea Orchestra” spot for United Airlines from Shy the Sun (founded by members of The Blackheart… Read more

Prologue: RockNRolla Titles

Prologue Films‘ Danny Yount is back with the main titles for Guy Ritchie’s upcoming film, RockNRolla. The look combines some fantastic comic book-style character illustrations… Read more

Stuart Langfield for MTV

Stuart Langfield recenty updated with some new work for MTV and MTV2. I’m loving the bumpers for The Stew, which feature some fantastic sound design… Read more

Eyeball: Project Earth

Eyeball recently posted some new work, including a svelt promo for the Discovery Channel’s “Project Earth.” The look of the spot is a welcome departure… Read more

Daniel Klein lives in a Speckzimmer

France-based director Daniel Klein was born in Germany, which shows, as his works on the internet live in the Speckzimmer, the “Room made out of… Read more

Mixtape Club for My Morning Jacket

Mixtape Club has been happily toiling away in their new home at Hornet. Last month, they released some character-based motion and print work for Nike/Foot… Read more

Jon Saunders

Our very own Motionographer author Jon Saunders recently updated his website. A solid intellect with a charismatic wit, and an enjoyable zest for teamwork and… Read more

Justin Harder & Ford Spencer: Prismacosm

Justin Harder describes his latest work, Prismacosm, as “[a]n array of objective tangents that sporadically connect in coincidental moments.” Co-directed with Ford Specer and created… Read more

Psyop’s Stoli Propaganda

Some of you may have caught Psyop‘s Stoli Blackberry spot a couple of weeks back. Entitled “Airship,” it’s a theatrical tale of Stoli’s journey from… Read more

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… Read more

2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards

Last night, I attended the 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards at the Skirball Center here in NYC to cheer on Ryan Uhrich and Motionographer’s own… Read more

Santa Monica Welcomes Elastic

Santa Monica welcomes Elastic, a design-driven VFX house and part of the a52/Rock Paper Scissors Family. Their first official project was this piece for Nike,… Read more

Darren Walsh & Passion for National Express Trains

The Legendary Darren Walsh (Passion Pictures) just dropped these two new spots for the National Express entitled Edinburgh and London. These modest, yet entertaining little… Read more

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… Read more

Meridian

[QuickTime version here] This is a little outside the norm for Motionographer, but I’m meserized by “Meridian,” a new short film from Brian Bowman (Creative… Read more

Maxon Announces Cinema 4D R11

Maxon announced features of its upcoming Cinema 4D R11 release at SIGGRAPH yesterday. Here are some juicy bits from the press release: CINEMA 4D R11… Read more

United Airlines “It’s Time to Fly”

Over the weekend, we posted Shy the Sun’s “Sea Orchestra,” which, it turns out, was only one of five remarkable spots in a campaign from… Read more

Liron Kroll: “How much of a woman”

[This project might be deemed not safe for work for some of you, so proceed with caution. Also, if the QuickTime above is slow, try… Read more

Only Say Yes When It’s Yes

As the President of The Ashy Agency and Chairman of the Board of Governors for the Broadcast Design Association (BDA), Brett Ashy has worked with… Read more

Smilefaucet’s Submission Date Extended

The eighth installment of Smilefaucet has extended their submission deadline to the 15th of October. This time around, the theme is “chance.” Additional information can… Read more

No Clear Path to Profit for Online Video, Say Executives

Cnet.com’s coverage of last week’s RBC Technology, Media and Communications Conference paints a bleak picture for the current—and perhaps future—state of online video publishers’ ongoing… Read more

Yaniv Fridman and Nicolas Alexander Girard are Miniature Rocket

Yaniv Fridman and Nicolas Alexander Girard started working together as students at the Vancouver Film School and quickly realized they had great creative chemistry. So… Read more