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REINO: Temaiken “Common Toucan” and “Capuccino Duck”

[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/reino-temaiken3.mov 720 550] Credits Client/Product: Fundación Temaikén Title: ¨Common Toucan¨ & ¨Capuccino Duck¨ Production company: REINO Buenos Aires Directors: Andrés Alvarez – Agustín Torre –… Read more

Cream O’ the Crop: People’s Choice

Photo by altemark Over the last couple weeks, we’ve gone through the usual chaos of voting for our summer update to the Cream O’ the… Read more

Gabe Askew: Grizzly Bear “Two Weeks” (Unofficial)

Taking a break from his day job in architectural visualization, Gabe Askew’s fan video for Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks” goes in an entirely different direction… Read more

Vera Bee’s Snow-Bo

Sometimes when you are trawling the infinite ocean that is the inter-web, you come across a little treasure that makes you wonder how on earth… Read more

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.

Partizan Lab’s Chris Cairns recently directed this highly entertaining surreal video featuring everyones favourite beat juggling junkies, the Scratch Perverts. I managed to interrupt Chris’… Read more

Twenty120 Interview

Twenty120 is around the corner and we have a few announcements that we would like to share. Firstly, as a reminder, this Thursday night at… Read more

Twenty120 Interview

Hey guys, so lets start with a little history. What are the origins of Twenty120? How did you come up with the current format of… Read more

Twenty120 Invite

Fx and Mat: IOC “All Together Now”

Nexus Productions’ directing duo Fx and Mat put their powers to use for the International Olympic Committee and agency Coler & Weber United in “All… Read more

Mass Animation: A Guest Rebuttal

Back in July, I scribbled out a diatribe against Mass Animation, a Facebook-supported competition to create a CG short film by crowd-sourcing the animation to… Read more

Mass Animation: Alexander Snow

[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/alex-snow-mass-animation.mov 960 540] Three shots from Alexander Snow, participant in Mass Animation. Read his guest write-up about the experience here.

Helen Clemens: Eskimo Joe “Losing Friends Over Love”

Plaza Films’ Helen Clemens directs a curious odyssey for Eskimo Joe’s “Losing Friends Over Love” music video. The project’s gentle ambiance is shot through with… Read more

Twenty120 NYC Premiere

One can easily say that motion graphics has become one of the most tantalizing careers for the creative minded. The opportunity to make art utilizing… Read more

Twenty120 Trailer 2009

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Ubisoft Montreal Annual Convention Opening

You know how it is. Everything is calm. The pace, relaxed. Maybe you’ll write a little email to your mum, letting her know how special—… Read more

Alex Roman: TheThird&TheSeventh

Some philosophies of aesthetics enumerate seven primary art forms derived from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s “Lectures on the Aesthetics” and the writings of film theorist… Read more

Eyeball Reel: Distant Future

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Justin Weber/MAKE: “Juiced and Jazzed”

Justin Weber makes his directorial debut with “Juiced and Jazzed,” accompanied by the forces of Minnesota’s MAKE Visual, as they blast us back to a… Read more

Friday Mix: Alex Moulton “Time Traveler”

It’s Friday. Your aching brain machinery needs a little lubrication, some sonic petroleum to rejuvenate your synapses. We’ve got just the thing. Lovingly mixed for… Read more

Psyop Tips Its Hat to the Wild “West”

Psyop is quick on the draw with “West,” the studio’s latest cowboy epic in their cardboard-inspired campaign for The UPS Store and agency Doner. “West”… Read more

ELNA* for NIKE

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design student Elnatan Gurvitz served a nice one-two punch for his final project. First, he designed three pairs of spec… Read more

Challenge Your World 20/20: New Films

I’m very pleased to announce that two news films have been added to the Challenge Your World 20/20 project. What’s Challenge Your World 20/20? Each… Read more

Interview: Capacity “Upgrade + Mobilize”

In the words of Capacity’s Ellerey Gave, “Before we became designers and animators and communicators, we were painters and illustrators and dreamers.” Over the course… Read more

Peppermill Berlin: “The Big Coup”

Peppermill Berlin recently created a fine visual essay for German rail company Deutsche Bahn. We’d normally Quickie this sort of thing, but the video comes… Read more