ASSOS RSR Targa Superskin

Continuing their collaboration with Swiss cycling apparel makers ASSOS, director David Farquharson and the crew at Bolder in Brighton once again weave together CG and live-action into a sleek and riveting film for the brand’s racing gear.

Healthcare Video

Choosing your doctor based on healthcare outcomes.

Cereal Fluid

Episode three on scientific theories! This episode focuses on the science of sleep.

Fixing the Foundation – Novartis

Made in collaboration with Vox Media and Novartis to explain new advances in cell and gene therapies that offer the potential to transform medicine.

Random42 – Medical Animation

From the showreel it looks pretty much like the gold standard in medical animation.

Operation Infektion

-Director’s cut version of the opening sequence Operation Infektion: a series uncovering the unknown history of disinformation. You’ll never watch the news the same way. nytimes.com/2018/11/12/opinion/russia-meddling-disinformation-fake-news-elections.html

Dupont – Thread

Follow a 3D stroke as it draws on shapes and objects. Nice work from Buck.tv.

This is the tale of Nomex & Kevlar.

MSK – Cancer – Less

Lovely abstract animation by toast.tv.

Beautiful colours and lightness of animation touches.

“The Widowmaker” Documentary title sequence.

Dave Penn was invited to conceive and produce a title sequence for an Oxford Films feature documentary.

Lullaby Theories, Episode Four: Babies & Babies & Babies

What could we learn if we discovered a parallel universe–a sister Earth? Would our twin universe exist in the same state as ours? What could we glean from it?

Death-Cap Mushrooms

Most poisonous mushrooms won’t kill you—they’ll simply cause a severe headache or vomiting. Death-cap mushrooms are not like the others.

Director: Elyse Kelly
Animation director: Matt Reynolds
Editor: Dan Fipphen
Sound design/mix: Chris Mastellone

Open Text – The Power of Information

Some great animated data here from Tendril in this animation for Open Text about information!

Data Trails: Jer Thorp

Some nice visualization of data from Peprally

BBC KNOWLEDGE 60

Some really nice transitions in this series of brand vignettes for BBC knowledge.
By WeAre17

Synthetic Biology

A visual essay exploring the future technology of synthetic biology.
By Vasil Hnatiuk

Audi – Speed of Light

Film on the history and future of Audi’s light technology. Lots of motion graphics and trapcode plugins.

Bitcoin Explained

This video explains how Bitcoin works in 3 minutes. Animated by Duncan Elms

Icarus – Animation montage

Some great motion graphics from a documentary on the discovery of the scale of the Russian doping program.
Director: Bryan Fogel, Animations: Office of Development & Design

HEAD Kore Skis

Some great 3D motion graphics from Feed Me Light
Creative Direction : Feed Me Light
Lead Creatives: Denis Bodart / Olivier Pirard
Supervisor: Olivier Pirard
Storyboarding: Denis Bodart
Previz: Ricardo David
3D Modeling, Animation, Lighting: Olivier Pirard
Mograph: Kris Cook
Compositing: Olivier Pirard
Sound/Music: Stelian Derenne

Captimax Alstrom

Microfibre technology told through CGI animation

Architecture of the future – Intel

Lovely mix of live action and superimposed CGI for Intel.

Magnitude Rituals

Split screen of graphics and imagery to convey the message.
Colourful and dynamic motion graphics by Donghyun Lee.

Soa Aids Nederland

Film for Soa Aids Nederland. Part of the campaign to raise awareness about sexually transmitted infections and HIV among people living in the Netherlands from sub-Saharan Africa, Suriname, the Dutch Antilles and Aruba.
By PlusOne

Nautilus

An inspiring piece of animation for anyone interested in a career in astrophysics. The story behind France A. Cordova’s big break into a world normally populated by men. Produced by ‘Not to Scale and directed by Colin Hesterly.

Organic Machines

Beautifully crafted  title sequence by Beijing visual designer Zaoeyo (aka Xiaolin Zeng, aka Mike Zeng) detailing insects constructed with glassy, organic materials.

The New Promised Land

Series of animated documents  made for a web documentary that tells the story of 5 young Syrian refugees who risked it all for a chance to start over. Treated stills and documents manage to sustain the long sequences.

Samsung 837 Installation – Tech NYC

Analytical, diagrammatic video in a 3D space by Jonathan Kim.  Blueprints, lines and tech overlays provide a hi-res feel for this square installation.

Prophets of Science Fiction

Ridley Scott’s promo for “Prophets of Science Fiction” has been brought to life by Prologue by tracking the graphics to the table top, transitioning to the CGI versions of his notes, in a techy intricate manner.

Spectre: UI Interface

Rushes create intricate detailed UI graphics for Bond’s computer in Spectre.

Lincoln Continental Concept

Artistic brush strokes combined with precision lines give an impressive creative feel to this car advert. Made by Block and Tackle with a good “how it was done” interview on Motionographer.

Inmobi – Trajectory

Monstro redefine the heavily saturated tech video with an epic galactic painted feel. Data has never felt so orange.

HBO The Heist

MK12’s programme graphics for the Heist. Using a blueprint plan and “Catch Me If You Can” style text transitions.

Particle Fever

MK12’s work on Particle Fever, a documentary about CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the Higgs boson, and people much smarter than ourselves. It involves numerous graphics throughout the film of differing techniques.

Save antarctica

What seems to be a fine piece for a hypothetical project by Yu Hyeji using low poly 3D forms. Greenpeace awareness film.

Safe and Free

Gentleman Scholar recreate the gracefulness of a large humpback whale in the freedom of a forest to promote Whale and Dolphin conservation. A technical video of some before and afters of the realistic CGI process can also be found on their site.

Soilconsweb

A very square geometric take on an infographic with a evening summers light cast over the film. A different perspective on a common film theme by Uli Henrik Streckenbach, the german animator responsible for this fishing film.

Person of Interest

Essentially, spy stuff. Lots of overlays and tracking footage and data gives it that high-tech espionage look. By Imaginary Forces

Manhattan – Main Title

Simple idea of diagrams on paper done very well in true Imaginary Forces style, similar in fashion to their popular Rubicon title.

Tom Clancy's The Division trailer

More excellent motion graphics from Antibody. Directed by Patrick Claire

NCB Naturalis

An interesting mix of styles combining the foundations of a studio shoot with lots of overlaid graphics informing the viewer about the collections and work of this Dutch centre for biodiversity studies. Agency – PlusOne

Weather system

Not sure you really need weather forecasting for the Arabian Gulf, but if you did this is the one.

X-Men: First Class

End titles for the film. Referencing early 1960’s title sequences as inspiration, simple shapes are used to graphically represent scientific data including DNA sequencing, mitosis, meiosis, and gene technology.

Zinio Reader

Nice combination of 2D and 3D to create a hi-tech styled commercial for a magazine app.

Ending Overfishing

Infographic about environmentalism. Stylized CGI and clever transitional animation create a clear yet lovely backdrop for the information by Uli Henrik Streckenbach.

Total

Advertising using tracking and compositing of motion graphics and text to recreate science, music, mathematics and space.

The Boy with the Incredible Brain

Graphics from the documentary, focusing on light and refraction.

Visible Human Part 2

Tests using the Visible Human Project data – see original video here. And creating a 3D model with the CAT scan.

Sustainable Investment Markets

Tracking data graphics over satellite imagery to get a sci-fi technological feel.

Genesis Creative Narrative

CGI animation documenting the creation of the earth in a scientific way, yet narratively based around religion.

Medstyst Shockwave Therapy

Live action is tracked in certain points, and medical 3D animation is overlayed to look like X-Rays.

The Biology of Change

Commericial using trapcodes (I think) to create medical style 3D animations for Momentum Health.

A Brief Introduction to Genetics

A nicely designed graphic presentation using a mixture of flat shaded 3D and 2D animation.

Number 23

Static titles using close-ups of paper and documents with subtle animation to create a coded typographical sequence.

MTV: P.O.V.

Old diagrams are animated in 2D and 3D to create a vintage looking title sequence with a graphic feel.

Drugs on the Brain

Medical CGI sequences explaining the effects on drugs within the body.
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Stuxnet animated typography

A complex mixing of styles and worth a view for the design if not the message. Watch on motiongraphics.

IBM: Data Baby

Technological looking advert mixing live action with footage by Motion Theory.

Augmented Reality Map

Augmented reality is used to show and move around a 3-Dimensional map.

Human Scan

3D scan through the length of a Human Body, compiling photographs to create an animation.

Refraction – Jesse Zanzinger

Shot through oil and water to create reflections and simple refraction in a live action experiment.
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Resonance – Necrosis

Dark, creepy animation with an alien and biological feel, black and white.

Storyverse

I had two inspirations/influences behind this project. I’ve always been fascinated by the fact that history is sometimes if not always written by the winners, and that “every coin has 2 sides”; the second inspiration comes from stories told by my father and my grandmother.
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