A short animation loosely based on the scientific recording of life’s great species. And how this has given us clues that piece together, for us to discover the secrets of the evolution and diversity of life on Earth.

A Record Of Life from Owen Gatley and Luke Jinks on Vimeo.

Chromeo – Fancy Footwork / MUSIC from AVIVA Communications on Vimeo.

“We Might Fall” – Ryan Star Official Music Video from //kneeon! on Vimeo.

“Never Wanted To Dance” Music Video from Mindless Self Indulgence on Vimeo.

Holy mother of Christ. So I’m chilling on Vimeo, cruising it up for awesome animations and (BAM), right in the face this one sucker punches me. The beginning of the video isn’t my cup of tee. I’ve seen hundreds of illustration based After Effects animations shoddily done, but something about this one made me linger.

After the Parsons Thesis show, I saw a lot of awe inspiring animations, namely one stood out to me because of its combination of hand-drawn elements combined with after effects technology made for a brilliant piece (suffice to say the story involved was beautiful on its own). This piece, however, is not that one (sorry to disappoint you) but one that reminds me of it. Katy Davis has a strong aesthetic style and great transitions and succeeds in combining stop motion animation with motion graphics techniques. The music is by BIM and you should check out Katie’s work at her website here.

Great After Effects animation is hard to come by. With the slew of motion graphics art on the rise, its hard to find endearing and beautiful animation but I’ve managed to snag a golden example of engaging animation. The White Birds music video for Sarah Fimm by Newspeak uses textured artistic elements combined with rotoscoping and animated elements to create an emotionally driven and complete piece. Check them out on Vimeo as they have a ton of great animations that are perfect for inspiration.

Genki Ito has provided awesome, abstract, and astounding motion graphics paced perfectly with hard hitting industrial synth tracks. I’m impressed with his ability to sync the visual and the audio, which is a talent plenty of motion graphics artists lack.

I haven’t posted anything related to Motion Graphics in a long time and figured that 3am on a Thursday morning was the best time to post anything at all. Luckily the search was short and I came across the mind-numbing and awkwardly intense music video preview: Clarte by Jemapur.

The age of the pure 3d rendered trailer seems to be losing steam in places like Japan, China, Korea, and here in America; major gaming companies have taken note of these and have started to provide more down to earth, inspiring, and moving motion graphic pieces that keep you on the edge of the seat even though you know the game looks nothing like it. Battlefield Bad Company 2 HD trailer offers promotional material that had me going =O.

Jealousy? This is jealousy and amazement. I’m not really a huge fan of commercial motion graphics because they tend to stifle free creativity, yet absolut vodka has always managed to find great animators, motionographers….

Alias Glee – Overtime from Syn Studios on Vimeo.
I just can’t get enough eye candy lately. I found this video on Vimeo and figured it would be great inspiration for all of the creatives out there. It doesn’t really matter what field you’re in, Syn Studios has produced a stunning motion graphics video [...]