This must be the craziest, and quite possibly the most fun film festival… ever! The 3rd Edition of the G.I. Joe Stop-Motion Film Festival offers filmgoers an exciting array of contemporary narrative, documentary and short films, all in stop-motion fashion, all featuring – yes, peeps, for real – the testosterone-charged military-themed US action figure! Renewed … Continued
Motionographer editor Justin Cone critically reflects on the success of Mass Animation’s crowdsourced 5 minute animation “Live Music” in his article “Mass Animation=Mass Exploitation?“. In his very good analysis of the pros and cons and the ups and downs of the “democratization of animation“, Cone explains why mass animation won’t work and could potentially hurt … Continued
The animated opening cinematic for the upcoming edition of the music video game Rockband is simply stunning. Centered around the music of none other than The Beatles, the game’s spectacular sequence takes you from the Beatles’ early beginnings at Liverpool’s grungy Cavern Club, all the way through their career, and ends with an epic grand … Continued
Stumbled upon this incredibly stylish new-ish animated music video made by illustrator/filmmaker Ferry Gouw for Major Lazer. Looks like Gouw got his inspiration from watching Sunday morning cartoons. Especially those from the 1970s and 1980s. Think: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe by Filmation and Scooby Doo by Hanna-Barbera. Those two studios popularized the … Continued
Not even the crustiest cynic can ignore MJ’s monumental influence on music and popular culture anymore. One of the dance moves that defines the King of Pop is, of course, the Backslide, a breakdance move which he famously renamed and immortalized as The Moonwalk. Millions of fans (including some of us here at Submarine) have … Continued
Excessive amounts of make-up were used to create the face paint animations for this music video for We Have Band, created by W+K’s creative team and Blinkink director David Wilson. “Each and every frame was hand-painted, shot, wiped off and redrawn, slightly differently for the next frame in order to create a seamless sequence.” The … Continued
We’re contributing our own bit to the discussion about video games‘ potential as an artistic medium with ‘A Split Second’ – a game project we’re developing with Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. But more about that later. This is about Rocket Riot, a brand-new game by one of the game designers involved in our project; the self-taught … Continued
“Marshall, Will, and Holly on a routine expedition – Met the greatest earthquake ever known – High on the rapids it struck their tiny raft, And plunged them down a thousand feet below – To the Land of the Lost…” Remember?
‘Lucio’ is a documentary about the legendary forger Lucio Urtubia, a.k.a. ‘The Basque Zorro’. The titles are noteworthy for the following 3 reasons: 1) they conjure up the atmosphere of a thriller, not a documentary; 2) this is Spanish motion designer Unai Geurra’s debut as a film title designer (Forget the Film supports promising title … Continued
After The Pink Panther 2, Karin Fong worked with Charles Khoury and Imaginary Forces‘ (IF) creative team on the main title of another iconic and successful movie franchise. Terminator Salvation is the fourth installment of the popular SF series based on the infamous cyborg character. IF’s title design draws heavily on the monumental logo of … Continued
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