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PROOOOPS! Animatorio is quickly becoming one of my favorite motion graphic/3D studios. I love their graphical approach and animation style. Mixing 3D with 2D motion graphics always revz me up… Wow, ok I’m done.

Nature by Numbers from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.

I really don’t have much to say about this piece other than the fact that I love it. Geometry and math exist everywhere we look, but we don’t always look hard enough to see it. Check out Eterea Studios for more information. Great work!

Will someone PLEASE pay me to make art like this?! The amount of man hours that went into making this piece have to be in the triple digits.



This video is called “ENVISION” and it was produced by the French outfit, SUPERBIEN.

I have no idea how long this took or how many people worked on this (I do know that it was directed by French animation collective H5), But I’m blown away by how insanely good it is! Cel-shading always looks so cool and slick, I hope it never wears out. I know 13 minutes seems long but it’ll go by really quick once you press play.

Brilliant video. Don’t really know about the questionable crotch extraction tho…

I know this is really short and simple, but 3 seconds in I was staring an awe and continued to the whole way through it. What’s it like to be so talented? …I’ll tell you some day..

WOW, Long time since I’ve blogged! I would usually try and find something to blame it on like being attacked by a super mean griz, or like the netz was down for a few months…. But honestly this is all on me! So from this point forward I’m going to make an oath to blog at least twice a week till christmas. Not saying that I’m not going to throw up some laaaaame-dizzle posts to fill my quota, but I promise (all 7 of my readers) that it won’t be a waste of time to check back.

Ok, enough of the bureaucratic filler. I like to go to Borders on my lunch break and check out industry magz like Wired and Videographer just to keep the creativity flowing. Every now and again I’ll come across those random art mags (usually from the UK) that are about $15 a piece and chalk full of the coolest art you’ll never see in person. I used to have about 16 or so of them in San Francisco and would run through them every time I needed a quick hit of inspirado. Anywho, last week I browsed an issue of Whatever U Want and ended up reading an article on a 23 year old brit named James Sutton. Truth be told I’m not that into his style, but at 23 he’s KILLING right now. Check out the new Steve Aoki video he just directed.

Going back to my roots, I thought I’d post some work of a somewhat local artist. I’m always surprised to see all the great work that comes out of Portland, and from rather unsuspecting fellows too. Take the two guys I used to work with at Nike for example (Marshall and Russell you know who you are). Meet them on the street: what’s up, regular ass dudes with no tats and who wear normal fitting jeans and t-shirts. Meet them in the lab and they’re turning out some of the sickest motion graphics and 3D work I’ve ever seen. Anyway, back to this guy…

This piece was just too good to pass up. I personally have never used Lightwave, but this is about as good as I’ve even seen. And forget the tech mumbo jumbo, this is a pretty bad ass Porsche commercial too! It’s ads like this that I watch and think, “This is real sick, probably cost a fortune, but where does it end up?..”

I’ve kinda been all over the place with this post, so I’ll go ahead and shut it down. Check out Stephen Fitzgerald’s Vimeo page and keep checking back for more blogs on motion graphics, video production and editing.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a fellow motion graphic designers work on my blog, so consider this my comeback…



This dude, Max, has some pretty tuned in mo graph skittles. Most of his pieces are pretty short, but still really well done. I love the mix of live action and animation, so it seemed fitting to post this video.

I know I post a lot of 3D and motion graphics videos that I find to be visually compelling, but this trailer takes the cake! Combine Japanese warrior rabbits (I don’t know a lick of the language but no matter who or what is speaking Japanese, they always sound raw!) with top notch 3D animation and you’ve got the Cat Shit One movie trailer. From what I’ve read there will be 12 episodes that are each 23 minutes log. The US release is called “Apocalypse Meow”, so be looking for it!