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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

Going Deep: Doc2Dock “Save Our Supplies”

We posted the cleverly crafted Save Our Supplies promo for non-profit Doc2Dock back in March. Since then, the film has given a huge boost to… Read more

OFFF Barcelona 2011 Main Titles : Mischa Rozema and PostPanic

Director Mischa Rozema says of this piece, “We knew we wanted to make something that would unsettle and menace the audience.” Mission accomplished, Mischa. Not… Read more

Making Of: Amnesty International 50 Years

  We recently Quickied an epic spot conveying the last 50 years of Amnesty International’s fight to uphold human rights around the world. Directed by… Read more

Mathias Lachal: Chute (Fall)

Chute (Fall), by Mathias Lachal. Ecole Emile Cohl, 2011.

James Lancett & Sean Weston: Overcast

Cartoon Brew‘s 2nd Student Animation Festival kicks off with Overcast by James Lancett and Sean Weston. Kingston University, 2011.

RESONANCE

Stop. Put on your headphones. Go fullscreen, and sit still as Resonance blasts your earballs to pieces. After debuting at OFFF Barcelona, Resonance is now… Read more

Makoto Shinkai: Neko no Shuukai

Roughly translated as “Kitty Gather Together,” this gem from the Far East comes from anime director Makoto Shinkai. Admittedly it’s a few years old now,… Read more

Gobelins: Annecy 2011

The second year students at Gobelins have made another round of short films to celebrate Annecy 2011. There’s five of them, each impressive, check them… Read more

[Review] Frank

Editor’s note: Like all our reviews, this is one is uncompensated and written purely out of curiosity about a new service that might be useful… Read more

Jon Balcome: “Bird” A Decent Animal

From the site: “Bird” is the thesis film/music video of Jon Balcome, an MFA Visual Effects student at Savannah College of Art and Design, and… Read more

Tron: The Final Word from David Lewandowski

Over the last couple months, we’ve posted some nice nuggets about the making-of Tron: Legacy — but we couldn’t resist just one more story. Some… Read more

Joseph Pierce: A Family Portrait

After a lengthy festival run, Joseph Pierce‘s A Family Portrait makes its online debut, presented by the hardworking fellows over at Short of the Week.… Read more

CANADA on How to Deconstruct Ice Cream

Editor’s note: The following post is by a new Motionographer contributor and copy editor, Brandon Walter Irvine. Please welcome him aboard! Perusing the Quickies the… Read more

[Review] New York in Motion

Editor’s note: The following interview and review are by guest contributor Cheryl Yau, a 2012 MFA candidate in SVA’s Design Criticism program. Catch the next… Read more

Russell Weekes On Cubism

London-based, multi-talended director, illustrator and one-third of Lie-Ins and Tigers, Russell Weekes drops a cleverly-crafted piece of cubism for Vadoinmessico’s ‘Pond’.

Edouard Salier & Digital District for Justice ‘Civilization’

Despite his hectic commercial career, Edouard Salier always seems to find the time for passion projects (see Massive Attack’s ‘Atlas Air‘ and ‘Splitting the Atom‘… Read more

Megaforce: Is Tropical: The Greeks

Here’s the new music promo from Megaforce. It feels like the brilliant French trio have really exceeded themselves on this one, straight off the back… Read more