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Jonathan Jarvis and The New Mediators

Building on the success of his incredibly lucid and educational animation, “The Crisis of Credit Visualized,” designer/animator Jonathan Jarvis announced an interesting new venture, The… Read more

Flying V: Virgile

Flying V, a new collaboration between 2008 Supinfocom alumni Clément Soulmagnon & Gary Levesque, has created a short film titled Virgile. Following a shy guy… Read more

David Wilson Breathes Life Into a Tired Technique

David Wilson has been a busy guy recently since dropping back-to-back videos for We Have Band and We Got Time. However, this recent piece for… Read more

Ne-o Lights Up the Night for Audi

The release of this one slipped under my radar, but hopefully its new to many of you as well. For the release of Audi’s new… Read more

Fernet Branca: An Interview With Laurent Barthelemy

We sat down for a quick interview with Laurent Barthelemy, the director of the beautiful Fernet Branca spot we posted here on Motionographer. Here is… Read more

Steven Spielberg on Animation

Excerpt: I think all directors should be animators first, because you really can take the imagination to become something tangible, something you can hold in… Read more

Marco Iozzi: Look Development Portfolio

Marco Iozzi updates his portfolio with some major goodies.  Marco is an awesome CG artist and look development specialist that has worked with many top… Read more

Tron Legacy: Teaser Scene

Unveiled at Comic-Con last week in San Diego, this teaser scene for the forthcoming Tron Legacy movie from Walt Disney Pictures looks incredibly hot. With… Read more

Tron Legacy: Teaser Scene

[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tron-h264.mov 960 399] 1280×720 version Full credits on IMDb

N.A.S.A. “Whatchadoin?”

Continuing in the brilliant tradition of the other audio/visual releases from N.A.S.A. is “Whatchadoin?”, directed by Jimena Oddi and Jorge Jaramillo. The concept grew from… Read more

Big Sean “Getcha Some”

Credits Director: Hype Williams Production Company: Newspeak.tv Similar projects: Shilo: Cartoon Network “Elijah Raps” Dvein: Voll Damm Jazz Takeshi Murata: Melt 02 So Me: Kid… Read more

Review: Visual Effects for Directors

I have to admit that I was wary of reviewing Hollywood Camera Work’s Visual Effects for Directors. When the package arrived, I groaned. Seven DVDs.… Read more

Superfad: Sprint NOW Campaign

[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/sprint-now.mov 640 360] Credits Client: Sprint – The NOW Network Spot titles: “Back to School” “Value” “Race Day” “Moving” Launch: July 2009 Agency: Goodby, Silverstein… Read more

Building Projection Round-Up

Over the last year or so, we’ve seen a lot projects involving the projection of video onto architectural structures. The most interesting of these are… Read more

Remember Michael Jackson

[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/MTV_MJ_Abbinder_new_sound_h2642.mov 960 540] Credits client: MTV Germany agency: BBDO Düsseldorf (GER) production company: Schönheitsfarm Hamburg (GER) creative direction: Alexander Breker art direction: Mark Wickenkamp animation:… Read more

2009 Emmys: Outstanding Main Title Design Nominees

Here are the nominees for a 2009 Emmy award in Outstanding Main Title Design. True Blood (HBO) Rama Allen, Designer; Shawn Fedorchuk, Editor; Matthew Mulder,… Read more

AICP Digital: Going Deeper

Photo by Mark Sebastian When the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) announced the formation of a new chapter, AICP Digital, we wondered what impact… Read more

IF: “The Pot” and “Uneasy Rider”

[qt:http://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/IF_adverts-H264.mov 720 404] Credits Agency Saatchi & Saatchi Stockholm Art Direction: Fredrik Svalstedt Copywriter: Henrik Berglöf Project Leader: Birthe Jörgensen Project Manager: Marie Nodbrink Director:… Read more

F5 Talk 01: Simon Robson and Tim Rayner

For those of you who attended F5 last April, you know that our speakers were a diverse and inspiring mix of creative people from a… Read more

DVR “Metamorphosis”

[qt:http://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/DVR-Metamorphose_engl_001.mov 722 394] Credits Client / product: DVR – Deutscher Verkehrssicherheitsrat (german council for road safety / ministry for transportation) Title: metamorphosis, 30sec Agency: Scholz… Read more

Jean-Julien Pous: Gedda Headz “Spaced Out”

Following up on his poetic short film “Seeking You,” director Jean-Julien Pous recently released a new music video for Gedda Headz’ (MySpace) first single, “Spaced… Read more

Mass Animation = Mass Exploitation?

When Mass Animation announced their goal of creating a CG short film by “crowd-sourcing” the animation to a global community of thousands of animators, I… Read more

Supinfocom: Great Glutton Island

The classic quote “never judge a book by its cover,” definitely comes to mind in “Great Glutton Island,” a beautifully animated short by Supinfocom student… Read more

Under Armour “Fierce Speed”

[qt:http://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/under-armor1.mov 960 540] Credits Project Name: Under Armour “Fierce Speed” Length: :30 Date aired: July 13, 2009 Client: Under Armour Senior Creative Director: Marcus Stephens… Read more