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If you’re in NYC on 5/5, come enjoy a night of the best of the latest in music videos at Sweet & Vicious from 7p-11p.… Read more

Buck: Sherwin Breakdown

[qt:http://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Sherwin_Breakdown_H264_V2.mov 960 540] Last week I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to sit down with creative leads Orion Tait, Benjamin Langsfeld & Joshua… Read more

Sehsucht: Lamborghini Pacemaker

Sehsucht’s latest production is this dark and elegant short film for Lamborghini’s super sports car, Gallardo Superleggera. Lamborghini Pacemaker is an epic journey that follows… Read more

Clemens Kogler’s Phonovideo

Austrian student Clemens Kogler just released a new film called Phonovideo which is an intriguing mix of cel-animation that was shot and edited in a… Read more

Book Review: The Language of Film

The book ‘the language of film‘, released in April 2010, examines the topic of how film communicates its meaning to the audience. The authors show… Read more

A Woman’s Life Through Dougal’s Eyes

Dougal Wilson’s latest spot for John Lewis (produced by Blink with VFX from MPC) flexes both his stronger and often contrasting skills; “in-camera” trickery whilst… Read more

Contest Policy

Motionographer makes a distinction between speculative work contests and showcase contests. Speculative Work Contests For speculative work contests, contestants are asked to create an original… Read more

Oh, Hello for SIFF

Seattle based studio Oh, Hello bring their signature style of cel animation to the Seattle International Film Fest. Like their previous work for the Pacific… Read more

Edouard Salier for Coke

Director Edouard Salier and production company Paranoid US deliver another amazing football themed spot in time for the World Cup. This time working for Coke,… Read more

Buck brings color (swatches) to Sherwin-Williams’ world

Update: Buck kindly created a making of video for Motionographer to break it down for yall. Also, I sat down with creative leads Orion Tait,… Read more

Christen Bach’s “Bear Untitled”, An Hommage to David O’Reilley

Berlin-based, Christen Bach, has tapped into the aesthetic and vernacular of David O’Reilly’s smash-hit “Please Say Something” to bring us another dark tale of love… Read more

Eric Xu’s ‘Balloon’

Eric Xu’s graduation thesis piece from SVA features some nice art direction, lovely character design for the main little fella, and a dark twist at… Read more

Oasis The Full Credits

Client Oasis Title Oasis Thé Length 45″ Media TV/ Internet/ Cinéma Agency Publicis WAM Creative director Florent Inbert Art director Emmanuel Lalleve Copywriter Ludovic Marocco… Read more

Seagulls Fly for Adobe CS5 Production Premium

Start off the week right with UFO cow abduction, samurai swords, and wild car chases, courtesy of Brazil-based Seagulls Fly and Adobe CS5 Production Premium.… Read more

Seagulls Fly “Adobe CS5 – Production Premium”

Q&A with Seagulls Fly by Michelle Higa, with help from Boca Ceravolo and Bran Dougherty-Johnson Can you talk a bit about the brief – was… Read more

Reach Out Full Campaign

Some of the 11 films made for Reach Out by Steve May, Boolab, Cal Brunker, Jo Lawrence, Lesley Barnes, and Adam Pierce. Anger Directed and… Read more

Reach Out

Reach Out is an interesting new PSA campaign by the Ad Council through DDB New York that attempts to raise awareness of teen suicide prevention… Read more

Doug Appleton

Doug Appleton is about to graduate from NorthEastern in Boston MA, ladies and gents. He’s already done a few things for Buck, and his reel… Read more

More Data from Motion Theory

Here are two new gorgeous spots from Motion Theory for IBM. Data Energy visualizes a holographic field of data around real-world objects, envisioning a near-future… Read more

Not To Scale/Ubik: LateRooms.com “Bubbles”

London-based production company Not To Scale and director Ubik mustered their talents for agency BMB and discount hotel booking service LateRooms.com in “Bubbles.” The :30… Read more

Not To Scale: LateRooms.com “Bubbles”

[qt:http://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/BMB-LATE105-030H264.mov 960 540] What was the brief for this project? Agency BMB approached us to make a commercial that had something of the same charm… Read more

Pixels Q&A with Patrick Jean

With over 2,026,435 views of the official film on Dailymotion in the six days since its release, Pixels has really spread far and wide very… Read more

ILOVEDUST Launches

News of  a Motion Design studio launch are always exciting, more so when the studio has already possessed a considerable repertoire and strong reputation in… Read more

See No Evil: 1 Year Anniversary

See No Evil, the London event that is run by Thiago Maia and our own James Wignall will celebrate its 1 year anniversary next week… Read more