technology

The Mill tackles monstrous VR challenges for Google ATAP

The pioneers of VR continue making progress, despite (or perhaps because of) the incredible technical and creative challenges it poses. …

9 years ago

In Pieces: A rare specimen of CSS-based animation

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) started as a way to conveniently manage the appearance of images and type across an entire…

9 years ago

Assembly’s VR museum exhibit brings an interactive humpback whale to life

New Zealand-based Assembly put their budding Unreal Engine skills to test and built a virtual reality museum experience for the Oculus…

9 years ago

Superteam proves power of collaboration in title sequence for FITC Tokyo

To kick off the FITC Tokyo 2015 conference, a superteam of artists working around the world (and sometimes around the…

9 years ago

Augmented reality calendar brings year to life with animation

As a holiday gift, Royale crafted a limited run of beautifully designed letterpress calendars. Viewed through the the companion AR…

9 years ago

VR storytelling wars begin, but will anyone be watching?

As predicted in my earth-shattering post, "6 Motion Design Industry Predictions for 2015," augmented reality (AR) platforms like Magic Leap…

9 years ago

yesyesyall is like MTV back when it was MTV

I'm not a nostalgic person, but I grew up in a time when MTV wasn't a 24-hour reality show marathon. Where…

9 years ago

Yukai Du: Way Out

Yukai Du's MA graduation film, "Way Out," is a surreal cautionary tale that hits close to home. Her "nouveau 1990s" stylistic voice…

9 years ago

How Google uses motion design to make tangible tech

When Google introduced its Material Design visual language in the summer of 2014, it felt like a train I'd been expecting for years…

9 years ago

6 motion design industry predictions for 2015

Somehow, 2015 is here. So I dug up my crystal ball (a Times Square snow globe from 1987), put on some…

9 years ago

The MOX file format

Brendan Bolles (developer of the EXR/DPX file formats that ship in After Effects) is looking for backing for a new,…

10 years ago

OMOTE: Real-time face tracking and projection mapping

Forget the faces of historic monuments, the new frontier of projection mapping is the faces of humans. Created by Nobumichi…

10 years ago

First person POV + Time lapse + Stabilization = Hyperlapse

Microsoft Research shares news of the new video stabilization technology, Hyperlapse: We present a method for converting first-person videos, for…

10 years ago

Draco: Bringing Life to Illustrations with Kinetic Textures

Autodesk Research introduces Draco: Draco is a prototype sketch-based interface from that allows artists and casual users alike to add…

10 years ago

IBM Phones And Food

The interplay of live action and exaggerated device interactions give this spot for IBM a shot of whimsy that separates…

10 years ago

How Pixar, Dreamworks, Lucasfilm and others kept wages artificially low

Wage-suppression conspiracy involved some of the world's most admired tech companies... and animation studios.

10 years ago

Nvidia Grid VCA: “Wherever Life Takes You”

This buttery smooth explainer video for Nvidia gracefully oscillates between representational and abstract illustrations to communicate its highly technical material.…

10 years ago

60 FPS videos coming to Youtube soon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ny9zIckP0 YouTube announced at VidCon and then on their official blog that they'll be supporting 48fps and 60fps video uploads…

10 years ago

Syndrome takes Pause in Melbourne

Syndrome Studio creates the opening titles for the 2014 Pause Fest in Melbourne, Australia. Executive Producer, Monica Blackburn describes the…

10 years ago

SculptGL

SculptGL is a web sculpting application, powered by WebGL and JavaScript.

10 years ago

BLR – iDiots

Big Lazy Robot finished another short with fantastic execution and a techo-age parable.

10 years ago

3d Workflow Includes Your Web Browser

Fully functional, 3d workflow is coming to browser near you! Try out GL Scupt by Stéphane Ginier if you don't…

10 years ago

IDNA – Spatial storytelling prototype for the iOS

IDNA allows you to pan your iPad around animated scenes, constructing a storytelling space around you. Hat tip to Borja…

11 years ago

Bot & Dolly: “Box” Interview and Behind the Scenes

As a follow up to our earlier post regarding the debut of Bot & Dolly's mind-boggling short, "Box," (above) we're…

11 years ago