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Mighty Nice: Melbourne Writers Festival

Typographic animation, it’s everywhere. You now get a free typographic animation with a box of breakfast cereal, and word has it that there’s an iPhone… Read more

Interview: Shynola and “Strawberry Swing”

“We never claim to be original, just rigorous.” So says Chris Harding, one of London-based Shynola’s four founders, in our interview with him about their… Read more

Tanqueray “3 Glasses”

[qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Tanqueray_3Glasses__Motionographer.mov 720 405] Credits W+K AMSTERDAM Creative Directors: Jeff Kling and John Norman Copywriter: Hector Muelas and Brandon Davis Art Director: Mark Sloan and Sezay… Read more

Shynola: Coldplay “Strawberry Swing”

Interview with Shynola’s Chris Harding The following interview was a joint effort between Motionographer authors Lillian Darmono and James Wignall. Story All your music videos… Read more

PandaPanther: Pop Tarts “Flavorhood”

PandaPanther recently posted “Flavorhood,” a magical spot for Pop Tarts and agency Leo Burnett. Charming character designs, a lush rendering style and unabashedly adorable visual… Read more

Alek Vacura: “Without Arms” Q&A

Last week, we posted Alek Vacura’s elegant short film, “Without Arms,” created for his MFA thesis at Pratt Institute. Alek was nice enough to answer… Read more

Motion Graphics meeting at SIGGRAPH 2009, Tuesday, August 4th

Photo by eduardoizquierdo Gil Irizarry sent us a notice about a motion graphics meeting at SIGGRAPH. Check it out: There will be a birds-of-a-feather meeting… Read more

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