Monthly Archives: August 2008

Gordon Thomas directs “Skit: Pantomime Horse” for Dapayk & Padberg

Gordon Thomas directs “Skit: Pantomime Horse” for Dapayk & Padberg

Kristofer Strom & Blinkink Tell the Story of the Phone

Kristofer Strom & Blinkink Tell the Story of the Phone

VFX Artist, Brian Demong On the Scene

VFX Artist, Brian Demong On the Scene

Knife Party Updates

I’m not shy about publicly adoring Simon Robson. Yes, he’s one of Motionographer’s contributors, but even if he hated my guts, I’d be posting the… Read more

The Windmill

What better place to stage a recreation of Don Quixote’s windmill battle than in Holland, where students Heerko Groefsema and Giso Spijkerman are studying Communication… Read more

“Ideation” by Jeremiah Dickey

Jeremiah Dickey’s “Ideation” is a beautiful refashioning of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave (via Cartoon Brew)

Soho Shorts 2008 Finalists Announced

RUSHES Annual Soho Shorts (London) have just announced their 2008 Finalists. Categories include: Animation, Short Film, Broadcast Design, Music Video, Newcomers and Documentary.

Heebok Lee updates

Heebok Lee recently updated his site with some stunning work that very much proves how much he deserves Cream O’ Crop status. He is currently… Read more

HP spot in real life (another step closer to Minority Report)

HP spot in real life (another step closer to Minority Report)

Axel Rudolph: Knowledge

[Updated with subtitles] For his final year project at Berufsakademie Ravensburg in Germany, Axel Rudolph created “Knowledge,” a proof-of-concept video for his vision of what… Read more

Burbuja – Who Knows

This enchanting little music video was created by the Spanish branch of Garage Films. I really dig the asthetics, reminds me of a cross between… Read more

Jonas Odell: Ida Maria

Music Video Master-Craftsman, Jonas Odell (co-founder and director at Film Tecknarna) teamed up with Nexus to deliver this high-energy, pop-art inspired video for Norwegian rocker… Read more

Delicious new spot for Hertog ice cream from Buck

Delicious new spot for Hertog ice cream from Buck

Britain from Above

Some amazing imagery for the BBC TV series, Britain from Above. (Thanks Mike)

New York Welcomes the Talented Marco Iozzi

New York Welcomes the Talented Marco Iozzi

Beautiful impressionistic imagery in “Rthartha”

Beautiful impressionistic imagery in “An Evening with Rthrtha,” a music video for The Octopus Project from Double Triple and Ryan Junell

Part 2 of 15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry

Part 2 of 15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry

Is It Really All Stop-Motion?

Watch “Building” | Watch “Contents” | Watch “Motor” When I first watched these three commercials by Australian director Liz Murphy and TAXI for RAC Insurance,… Read more

Stéphane Manel for Chromeo

Chromeo’s New Video from Stéphane Manel

Many interesting moments in Studio Dialog’s 2008 reel

Many interesting moments in Studio Dialog’s 2008 reel

Freelancing 101: Understanding Holds

In this first installment of Freelancing 101, David Schwarz of Brooklyn-based Hush (Motionographer posts) explains how “holds” work: A “hold” means an employer has the… Read more

Native Support for RED in After Effects and Premiere

RED’s been working on a plugin for After Effects and Premiere that will allow uses to natively open R3D files, and it should be available… Read more

Gareso: MTV Birds

(If that version is slow, try the Motionographer mirror.) Although he’s from Brazil, Gabriel Souza (a.k.a Gareso) is earning his Diploma of Motion Graphics and… Read more

New Title Sequences at Forget the film…

Forget the film, watch the titles has posted up two new title sequences: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and The Teeth Of The… Read more