Scott Squires has just written 10 simple rules, business advice for VFX and animation artists, in the wake of another unpaid artists story coming out of Montreal. Good points that we should all pay attention to. I know vfx people love what they do but they don’t have to scr*wed in the process. Besides having [...]
Motionographer’s Moscow branch is looking for a Russia-based motion graphics designers, processing/vvvv artists and interactive audio-visual installation projects. Feel free to send us examples of your best works to be shown at MIGZ festival. Posted on Motionographer
When we got wind of Brand New School launching a new London Studio, we wanted to share the news with readers. According to the press release, ex-PassionPictures producer Kayt Hall has been appointed as Executive Producer. BNS goes on to say: All BNS studios will be interconnected to facilitate collaborations and to share resources. “While [...]
Fresh from the 2010 AICP Awards at MoMA in NYC, we’ve got the results to share. Top production companies are MJZ (12 honors), Biscuit (5), @radical.media (5), Anonymous Content (4) and Smuggler (4). Top Directors are Rupert Sanders (5 honors), Noam Murro (5) and Tom Kuntz (4). W+K Portland came out as the most honored [...]
I’ve been watching this project evolve over the past few months and it’s scope and depth has grown to something worth noticing. As part of a global filmmaking project, One Day on Earth is asking the creative community, “If you can document something to share with the world, what would you film?” This call-to-action is [...]
Rebecca Keegan, the author of a biography on James Cameron, The Futurist, and also a Variety and Time magazine correspondent, writes a mainstream media article that’s thin on any new substance but covers the main ideas behind the VFX Fairness debate for Time Magazine. Read the whole piece here. “Fundamentally, visual effects is a crappy [...]
The 89th Annual ADC Awards have just come to a successful close. Held at SVA’s theater in NYC, it was hosted some of the industry most creative minds from George Lois to Bob Greenberg to Richard Wilde to it’s current president, Doug Jaeger. Notable winners from our side of the camp were: Hibi No Neiro [...]
As of less than an hour ago, every form of industry chatter has been focused on one thing: the end of Boards Mag. It has been confirmed that the 10 year run of one of the leading mags on commercial production has come to an end. The amazing editorial crew of Rae-Ann Fera, Ed White, [...]
When we see something great here at Motionographer HQ, we really like to know who’s behind it. We want to know who it was made by. And we like to find more of that person’s work, and delve deeper into what they do. This post is a bit of housekeeping for us, but we think [...]
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. Works from Dougal Wilson, Spike Jonze, Saam Farahmand, LEGS, Megaforce, Arno Salters, Sean Pecknold, Waverly Films, Romain Gavras, Radical Friend, Ben Steiger Levine, James Frost, That Go are on the [...]
Impactist – Last Heist EP is a new album from the Portland duo. They created four uniquely genuine short animations for each of the tracks, that fit the musical aesthetic perfectly. Upgraded from a quickie, we felt that everyone should see how self-initiated projects like this can extend your portfolio and flex your creative muscles [...]
Simple is beautiful. In Lights, Paranoid US and new SF-based agency, DOJO, keeps it simple and retells the classic story of boy meets girl. With director Sophie Gateau at the helm, the piece dually functions as an advert for LG and a music video —similarly named— for electropop artist, LIGHTS. At the heart of it, [...]
This amazing 5 minute CG trailer for the upcoming “DC Universe Online” video-game almost slipped past our radars. Brought to life by Blur Studio, it features Poison Ivy, Wonder Woman, Metallo, The Green Lantern, Giganta, Black Adam, Batman, The Flash, Cyborg, Lex Luthor, Deathstroke, Artemis, The Joker, Harley Queen, Superman and Brainiac (…phew!) all together, [...]
Here’s three four pieces of odd, “creature-driven” music (yes they’re still relevant) video work from some of our favorites to get your Wednesday going. First up, the legend, Tom Kuntz, makes a return to music videos after a hiatus that involved picking up an Emmy for his hugely successful Old Spice work. For MGMT, this [...]
\’th`ing\ p`1t\ Noun An entity, an idea, or a quality perceived, known, or thought to have its own existence. Thing Pit is a traveling guerrilla art projection by artist Taras Hrabowsky. It’s also a beautifully composited project full of crushing decay, fluid destruction and complete insanity. Much can be said about the possibility of a [...]
Last night, it seemed like everyone in NYC was talking (and tweeting) about one thing: The Standard Hotel. Funded by Target, Mother NY and LEGS took over the Standard as the stage for a Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular — an LED light and fashion show with enormous ambition and success. Hot off of VMA nominations for [...]
The folks over at Everynone just released a new addition to their series of shorts in collaboration with NPR & WNYC’s Radiolab – an evocative interpretation of communication which explores the role that language plays in our perception and understanding of the world: WORDS. As a “bonus video” to reflect Radiolab’s recent subject matter of [...]
New Zealand-based Director Jonny Kofoed recently put out a series of über sweet animated spots for PAMS for the NZ-market. Meticulously designed and animated, the spots are an ode to Pams’ food products. Filled with simple, food-shaped characters they live in a vintage, yet contemporary world. The combination and contrast of analog/digital textures and simple [...]
MK12 has just released another in-house project, a short film called TELEPHONEME. It brings the idea of “language working as a double-agent, carrying a hidden meaning with it for reasons yet-unknown” (there’s a PDF with more details in the cool site!). The movie expertly combines live action with animation in the collective’s unique style, with [...]
Between Bears, created by Eran Hilleli at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, is a film beyond its years as a student piece and occupies a distinctive place in the spectrum of contemporary, short subject animation. Unto itself, nearly every frame is a moving illustration. The style of the piece reduces [...]
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