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Lara Lee: My Favourite Animal

A child’s worldview makes for a rich jumping off point — as explored in Yeondoo Jung’s Wonderland photography series, Dave Devries’ Monster Engine, or Axe… Read more

En Agosto

Two years for the making of En Agosto, but here it is, a perfect combination of 2D and 3D animation in this beautiful 15-minute short… Read more

Max Hattler: Jemapur’s ‘AANAATT’

Here’s an abstract stop-motion to contrast with your digital days. Max Hattler directs this analogue futurist music video for Jemapur’s AANAATT. (Thanks, Jason!)

Sehsucht: Misereor

Mate Steinforth and Sehsucht create this woodcut-inspired spot for Misereor.

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… Read more

Ori Toor: Panda Bear — “Alsatian Darn” (unofficial)

Ori Toor continues to explore psychedelic, fluid animation in this unofficial music video for Panda Bear’s Alsatian Darn. If you haven’t seen it yet, check… Read more

Black Swan meets Sesame Street

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, from Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling (with the London-based This Is It Collective) was a Quickie that caught my attention… Read more

David Salaices: Clock DJ

Wiki wiki wiki. A clock collage by the Madrid-based Musikame team — David Salaices, Alex Santiago and Latrama. (Via Vimeo staff picks.)

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.… Read more

Yowie and the Magpie by Dylan White

Been a long time coming, but this delightfully illustrative and darkly comic tale is now available to view in its entirety online, after having toured… Read more

Channel 4 Street Summer promo

Update: MPC’s behind-the-scene ‘making of’. Fascinating stuff! Given the recent riots and looting that’s been plaguing England, I cannot help but post this “Street Summer”… Read more

SIGGRAPH 2011: Technical Papers Fast Forward

Hi Motionographers! We’re at SIGGRAPH 2011, here in beautiful Vancouver. SIGGRAPH is the Association for Computing Machinery’s annual conference on computer graphics, where you can find… Read more

Mac ‘n’ Cheese

Mac ‘n’ Cheese from Mac ‘N’ Cheese on Vimeo. This wonderful, light and funny piece is made by Gijs van Kooten, Tom Hankins, Roy Nieterau… Read more

Memory Tapes’ “Yes I Know” by Najork

Memory Tapes’ “Yes I Know” from Najork on Vimeo. At first glance, a quiet, almost serene black and white video. Nevertheless, it’s packed with visual effects. Each image is carefully and… Read more

DANIELS: My Best Friend’s Wedding/My Best Friend’s Sweating

A new short short from DANIELS to make you smile on hump day. (Thanks, Jason)

Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits: My Mother’s Coat

Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits shares her mother’s intimate ruminations with us in the touching My Mother’s Coat. Royal College of Art, 2010. For more lovely illustration, check… Read more

OK GO, Pilobolus, Trish Sie: All Is Not Lost

It was only a matter of time until OK GO got into the Chrome experiment game. They’ve partnered up with dance company Pilobolus, longtime collaborator… Read more

Carine Khalifé: Young Galaxy — Blown Minded

I’m so happy to be able to post this up on Motionographer. Finding an artistic collaboration of such beautiful execution that’s off the beaten track… Read more

Synple: A History of the Title Sequence

A History of the Title Sequence, 2011 graduation project by Synple (a.k.a Jurjen Versteeg). More on the concept & process at Watch the Titles

Viola Baier: Manège Magique

Manège Magique. Directed by Viola Baier. Third year student film at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and the trailer of the ITFS 2011.

Defective Detective

Defective Detective from Cartoon Brew on Vimeo. Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis worked together to bring us this lovely animated film about a hapless detective’s… Read more

Francois Barreau, Marion Delannoy, Claire Fauvel, Rachid Guendouze, Vincent Nghiem and Benoit Tranchet: Fur

Hints of Miyazaki in the third year Gobelins film Fur. Directed by Francois Barreau, Marion Delannoy, Claire Fauvel, Rachid Guendouze, Vincent Nghiem and Benoit Tranchet.

The Resale Right

Le droit de suite (The Resale Right) — VA from Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet on Vimeo (via Drawn). Time and again I have been moved by the… Read more

Challenging the Hold System

Photo by Kecko Recently, we posted a review of Frank, an online tool that facilities the holding and booking of freelance talent. In the comments, though,… Read more