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Not to Scale/NATL for British Airways

Sometimes eye candy is okay. Sometimes, in fact, it’s the point. Such is the case in this new National TV spot (produced by Not to… Read more

Transistor Studios for ESPN

Transistor Studio’s James Price has the incredibly useful talent of being able to adapt his vision to the needs of the client. The result is… Read more

BNS offers new courses.

BNS updates their site with diverse work for Adobe, Chase & Doritos that spans the gamut of motion design: they’ve done character design and stop-motion… Read more

Lucien Superstar

This is not your typical Motionographer feature, but someone known as Boum suprised me with this short and sweet little animated gem on CA forums…… Read more

Mekanism Channels Cuteness for BP

Mekanism recently crafted a series of character-driven, flat-shaded 3D spots that leverage the power of cuteness to inject a sense of a playfulness and positivity… Read more

Pistachios: Curare

Stockholm-based Pistachios (of Blacklist) has crafted an eerily compelling short-filmish music video for Bulgarian musician Bogdan Irkük (a.k.a. BULGARI). I really like the way the… Read more

Adobe CS3 Product Tours Redux

There’s always more to a project than meets the eye. I recently made a post about how motion graphics is used in product tours, with… Read more

New Feature: nailgun* Interview

Recently, I had a phone conversation with nailgun* co-founders Michael Waldron (Creative Director) and Erik van der Wilden (Director of Editorial and Animation). We chatted… Read more

An Interview with nailgun*

MOV nailgun*’s latest reel JPG Pitch boards for the Academy Awards PDF The process behind the Benjamin Franklin spot for Spike TV’s Men of Action… Read more

Kompost does titles for Trekant

This title sequence by Kompost breaks away from 3D and vector, taking a more illustrative route. The narrative itself is also quite clever, combining both… Read more

Charlex and SS+K: MSNBC.com

Charlex recently posted a new spot for MSNBC.com that sports some elegantly seamless transitions. Stylistically and conceptually, the spot is strongly reminiscent of Lobo’s Dupont… Read more

Nakd produces three-spot PSA campaign

The PSA’s are for Canada’s Heart and Stroke Foundation, and are entirely conceived in 3D. Each piece has an emotional and personal tone to it,… Read more

Chris Ware does This American Life

God, this is cool. I’ve always wanted to see sequential artist Chris Ware in animation, and it seems I’ve gotten my wish. Here is an… Read more

Lyapis Trubetskoy: Capital (or Kapital)

I have no idea what to make of this tripped-out critique of materialism and pop culture from Belarusian rock band Lyapis Trubetskoy. It’s gaudy, over-the-top… Read more

Just a Friendly Reminder

Just want to remind everybody of a few ground rules that have always been in place at Motionographer. Most of this stuff is on the… Read more

Kosinski – Saab

Director Joseph Kosinski is back with the prowess of his definable style in this super slick ad for SAAB. There’s just something about his 3d… Read more

More Ugo!

Just wanted to bump Ugo over here from the quickies. As former art director at Eyeball, I think he does some refreshing, smart, and overall… Read more

Another Unsung Motion Graphics Artform: Product Tours

Okay, let’s get something straight. Product tours are very rarely sexy. They are very rarely rad. But they’re important. When done well, they’re the quickest… Read more

BMW: Pursuit Across Europe

I’m posting BMW’s Pursuit Across Europe mainly for the stylized 3D cutscenes by Electric Umbrella, but honestly I dig the gameplay, too. I’m amazed at… Read more

Tronic for Target

Tronic has recently released some stylish new projects for Target. The first three are minimalist semi-narratives (1 | 2 | 3) following marbles through abstractions… Read more

Get the Glass

Excellent design, animation, interactivity and yes, motion graphics, come together in Get the Glass, an interactive board game from Swedish-based web studio North Kingdom (for… Read more

Vitamin: Smilefaucet AIR

Recently posted Vitamin did a wonderful job on the title sequence for Smilefaucet’s new AIR DVD. Director Ryan Dunn and his team combined a sparsely… Read more

Andy Huang “Doll Face”

I first saw Andy Huang’s “Doll Face” about a month ago, and thanks to an email from Danny Yount, I was reminded of it recently.… Read more

Now Look What You Did.

MAKE in Minneapolis, creates two new CG environmental PSA spec commercials, all for shits and giggles… and a good cause. Respect yourself. Respect your environment.… Read more