best sites for motion graphics content?

cb911 · 09:11 AM

well i'm just gettin into motion graphics now... and i'm always looking for good sites for inspiration and ideas... and of course good examples and showreels.

so does anyone know a motion graphics site that links to the latest examples? for example, 3dtotal.com features links to heaps of 3d, and other types of animation and related material. that's an awesome site, i must have downloaded about 2GB of animations and showreels because of following links from there.

are there any sites like that where they link to other sites that have motion graphics content? i know a few good sites out there, and i might as well list them here. at least if no 'motion graphics directory' exists out there, this thread could serve as a listing of the best motion graphics!

KD LAB - this kinda crosses over into animation, but it's cool and you can download a showreel there.

LOBO - i only discoverd these guys in the last week, they've got some awesome work. well worth a look

heaps of stuff to download as well, very nice work.

La Huella FX - well this is kinda more post-production oriented, but it's a good site, perhaps good for some inspiration?

Exopolis - these guys just rock. their work is top notch, i could watch their showreel all day long.

well, maybe only for half a day. excellent work to be seen here!

www.mk12.com/]MK 12[/url] - again, some great work over here. i could watch this for the other half of the day.

a must see.

REZN8 - lost of commercial work you might recognize. they've got reels to view as well.

GMunk - well, this is a pretty crazy site.

he's got some very good work, and some funny clips on there as well. lots and lots of content to go through. another must see.

so there's just a few sites to start out the 'best motion graphics directory'... now lets see how many other good sites we can find out there.

anyone who knows some good sites, please post your links here. it's time to share.

there must be at least a good few hundred MB to download there... so here's a excellent tip for Safari: to download something, say a QuickTime movie if you don't have Pro, press 'cmd+opt+a' to open the Activity window in Safari. find the QT movie that you want to download, and 'opt+click' on the movie URL, and watch as it pops up in the Downloads window and starts screamin' down your pipe!!

i just found that out recently, and it's definitely something everyone should know about.

oh, and i don't know if Community is the right place for this? is there somewhere else it should be to get more attention?

iGav · Apr 21, 2004, 09:57 AM

http://www.mill.co.uk (the greatest post house on the face of the planet. period!)
http://www.outsider.tv/
http://www.hillmancurtis.com/hc_web/film_video.shtml
http://www.shilodesign.com/
http://www.conduit.co.za/
http://www.deepend-ny.com/f_flash.html
http://www.eyeballnyc.com/
http://www.pho-ku.com/tdr_com/tdr_03reel.mov
http://www.onedotzero.com/new/frames.html
http://www.yuco.com/yuco.html
http://www.imaginaryforces.com/

http://www.rga.com/index_flash.html
(these used to be huge in motion graphics, not sure if there's anything on their site though)

http://www.glassworks.co.uk/main.html
http://www.youmeyou.tv/
http://www.nexuslondon.com
http://www.avience.com
http://www.swaystudio.com/
http://www.curiouspictures.com/
http://www.directorslabel.com/
http://www.zinestesia.net/

Thirteenva · Apr 21, 2004, 02:04 PM

www.blitzds.com

www.billybussey.com

cb911 · Apr 21, 2004, 08:03 PM

hey hey! thanks heaps for the linkage guys.

looks like this is off to a really good start.

i'll have to check all of them out when i get some time. there's also some more i want to add to the list, i'll do that when i get a chance.

any others with some more good links?

iGav · Apr 23, 2004, 07:42 AM

http://www.theembassyvfx.com/
http://www.theembassyvfx.com/nike_movie_02.html

cb911 · Apr 25, 2004, 09:49 PM

wow. too much stuff to check out.

i really like EyeballNYCs work, great stuff.

http://www.xplodingcinema.com/ - i just found this site, it's good for finding links to other sites. from there i found:
http://motlf.com/
http://www.gesture.org/
http://www.shynola.com/
i think some of them are VJs, but some good stuff anyway.

keep the links coming!

iGav · Apr 26, 2004, 06:02 AM

http://www.blind.com/
http://www.buckla.com/buck_2004/index.html
http://www.brandnewschool.com/
http://bubble-squeak.com/site03/index.html
http://www.dform1.com/reel/lowres.html
http://www.dixonbaxi.com/
http://media.mk12.com/mk12v4/index2.html
http://www.fullerene.com/
http://www.hungryfordesign.com
http://www.interspectacular.com/index.html
http://www.transistorstudios.com/
http://www.mograph.net
http://www.psyop.tv
http://www.mk12.com
http://www.tronicstudio.com
http://www.one9ine.com
http://www.3am-design.com

redAPPLE · Apr 26, 2004, 06:44 AM

uhh, what is motion graphics? what good do they do?

iGav · 08:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by redAPPLE

uhh, what is motion graphics? what good do they do?

'Motion Graphics' are exactly as they sound.. graphics that move.

It can be something as simple as the rolling text credits at the end of a film, or a well developed and executed starting sequence to a film like 'Se7en' that enhances the story by offering some insight into the actual story, can be Flash animations on a website or a tag that animates on a television ad... or just the result of old fashioned creative experimentation.

iGav · Apr 26, 2004, 08:18 AM

http://www.pleix.net/
http://www.stilettonyc.com/launch.html
http://www.foreignoffice.com/
http://www.fullerene.com/
http://www.lobo.cx/
http://www.mainframe.co.uk/
http://www.nakd.tv/
http://playairways.com
http://www.sincolor.com.br
http://www.spon.com/work_design.html
http://www.stardust.tv/2004/main.php
http://www.statedesign.co.uk/
http://www.thevfxco.co.uk/nu_site.html
http://www.trollback.com
http://www.renascent.nl/
http://www.mk12.com/
http://www.attik.com/
http://www.stylewar.com/

redAPPLE · Apr 27, 2004, 03:05 AM

thanks iGav.

there is this new apple app called "motion". this sounds ignorant but, can't fcp do any motion graphics?

iGav · Apr 27, 2004, 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by redAPPLE

thanks iGav.

there is this new apple app called "motion". this sounds ignorant but, can't fcp do any motion graphics?

To a degree Final Cut can, but it's pretty basic stuff 'Transistions' and the like... Final Cut Pro is a non-linear editing package, you use it to 'cut' footage together.

For higher end motion graphics and comp work, you'd want to look at applications/hardware solutions like Adobe After Effects, Discreet Combustion, Discreet Flint, Discreet Flame, Apple Shake and now Apple Motion, which looks to be targetting Adobe's After Effects and Discreet Combustion in the desktop motion graphics software arena.

If you're wanting to produce motion graphics for the interweb (think animated intro's on web pages) or CD-ROM/ DVD-ROM, then you'd use applications like Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Director, iShell and before it was axed but still useful Adobe LiveMotion. These applications also allow you to add 'interactivity' to your work.

iGav · Apr 29, 2004, 07:18 AM

http://c404.tv/
http://www.laundrymat.tv/film.php
http://www.tomato.co.uk/qtpromo/indexfive.html
http://www.moving-picture.co.uk/

iGav · Apr 30, 2004, 07:27 AM

http://www.dokterstudio.com/motion/
http://www.hi-res.net/

neut · 12:47 PM

suprised this one wasn't metioned: http://www.ultrashock.com/

this one too: http://www.2advanced.com/

peace.

iGav · May 1, 2004, 08:19 AM

http://www.wetadigital.com/

iGav · May 2, 2004, 07:06 AM

http://www.animallogic.com/
http://www.oblongbox.com/
http://www.roughcollie.tv/
http://www.xy-1.com/
http://www.intro-uk.com/showreel.html

MetallicPenguin · May 2, 2004, 10:12 AM

This isn't what you are looking for but I think they have a cool website:

http://whoswestudios.com

click on the big picture, then down in the corner click where it says Whos We Version 1 or something.

iGav · May 5, 2004, 02:40 PM

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/
http://www.tvhome.co.uk/

these 2 links in particular represent the daddy of brit tv identities!

http://www.tvhome.co.uk/c4/1999.shtml
http://www.tvhome.co.uk/c4/2000.shtml

iGav · May 5, 2004, 03:25 PM

http://www.oilfactory.com/
http://www.colonelblimp.com/directors/
http://www.lambie-nairn.com/
http://www.rosehackneybarber.com/directors.php

cb911 · May 6, 2004, 03:19 AM

wow!

i'm gone for a bit, and you go nuts with the linkage! nice work iGAV!

MetallicPenguin, i'll have to check out that link as well.

also, not quite motion graphics, but animation. Blur's RockFish is out: http://www.blur.com/html_quicktime/rockfish_480.html

it's an animation, and really great quality stuff as well.

also, Blur do motion graphics as well, and a bit of everything else really.

iGav · May 7, 2004, 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cb911

wow!

i'm gone for a bit, and you go nuts with the linkage! nice work iGAV!

and here's another one...

www.kemistry.co.uk

iGav · May 8, 2004, 02:43 PM

http://www.motiontheory.com/
http://www.xy-1.com/ (these guys used to have a tight showreel online)

iGav · May 9, 2004, 03:01 PM

http://www.rsafilms.co.uk/
http://www.styleboost.com/linktracke...of+Speed+Video

iGav · May 11, 2004, 10:36 AM

kinda like onedotzero...

http://www.resfest.com/

Apr 21, 2004, 09:06 AM	#1
cb911 macrumors 68040 Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: BrisVegas, Australia	best sites for motion graphics content? well i'm just gettin into motion graphics now... and i'm always looking for good sites for inspiration and ideas... and of course good examples and showreels. so does anyone know a motion graphics site that links to the latest examples? for example, 3dtotal.com features links to heaps of 3d, and other types of animation and related material. that's an awesome site, i must have downloaded about 2GB of animations and showreels because of following links from there. are there any sites like that where they link to other sites that have motion graphics content? i know a few good sites out there, and i might as well list them here. at least if no 'motion graphics directory' exists out there, this thread could serve as a listing of the best motion graphics! KD LAB - this kinda crosses over into animation, but it's cool and you can download a showreel there. LOBO - i only discoverd these guys in the last week, they've got some awesome work. well worth a look heaps of stuff to download as well, very nice work. La Huella FX - well this is kinda more post-production oriented, but it's a good site, perhaps good for some inspiration? Exopolis - these guys just rock. their work is top notch, i could watch their showreel all day long. well, maybe only for half a day. excellent work to be seen here! www.mk12.com/]MK 12[/url] - again, some great work over here. i could watch this for the other half of the day. a must see. REZN8 - lost of commercial work you might recognize. they've got reels to view as well. GMunk - well, this is a pretty crazy site. he's got some very good work, and some funny clips on there as well. lots and lots of content to go through. another must see. so there's just a few sites to start out the 'best motion graphics directory'... now lets see how many other good sites we can find out there. anyone who knows some good sites, please post your links here. it's time to share. there must be at least a good few hundred MB to download there... so here's a excellent tip for Safari: to download something, say a QuickTime movie if you don't have Pro, press 'cmd+opt+a' to open the Activity window in Safari. find the QT movie that you want to download, and 'opt+click' on the movie URL, and watch as it pops up in the Downloads window and starts screamin' down your pipe!! i just found that out recently, and it's definitely something everyone should know about. oh, and i don't know if Community is the right place for this? is there somewhere else it should be to get more attention? __________________ Thankyou Mr George Hotz for the 1.1.2 & 1.1.3 OTB iPhone unlock solution! Last edited by cb911 : Apr 21, 2004 at 09:11 AM. Reason: added killer Safari tip!

Apr 21, 2004, 09:57 AM	#2
iGav macrumors 601 Join Date: Mar 2002	http://www.mill.co.uk (the greatest post house on the face of the planet. period!) http://www.outsider.tv/ http://www.hillmancurtis.com/hc_web/film_video.shtml http://www.shilodesign.com/ http://www.conduit.co.za/ http://www.deepend-ny.com/f_flash.html http://www.eyeballnyc.com/ http://www.pho-ku.com/tdr_com/tdr_03reel.mov http://www.onedotzero.com/new/frames.html http://www.yuco.com/yuco.html http://www.imaginaryforces.com/ http://www.rga.com/index_flash.html (these used to be huge in motion graphics, not sure if there's anything on their site though) http://www.glassworks.co.uk/main.html http://www.youmeyou.tv/ http://www.nexuslondon.com http://www.avience.com http://www.swaystudio.com/ http://www.curiouspictures.com/ http://www.directorslabel.com/ http://www.zinestesia.net/ __________________ "Flick the Gestapo.... No, I said Flick, the Gestapo!"

Apr 21, 2004, 08:03 PM	#4
cb911 Thread Starter macrumors 68040 Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: BrisVegas, Australia	hey hey! thanks heaps for the linkage guys. looks like this is off to a really good start. i'll have to check all of them out when i get some time. there's also some more i want to add to the list, i'll do that when i get a chance. any others with some more good links? __________________ Thankyou Mr George Hotz for the 1.1.2 & 1.1.3 OTB iPhone unlock solution!

Apr 23, 2004, 07:42 AM	#5
iGav macrumors 601 Join Date: Mar 2002	http://www.theembassyvfx.com/ http://www.theembassyvfx.com/nike_movie_02.html __________________ "Flick the Gestapo.... No, I said Flick, the Gestapo!"

Apr 25, 2004, 09:49 PM	#6
cb911 Thread Starter macrumors 68040 Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: BrisVegas, Australia	wow. too much stuff to check out. i really like EyeballNYCs work, great stuff. http://www.xplodingcinema.com/ - i just found this site, it's good for finding links to other sites. from there i found: http://motlf.com/ http://www.gesture.org/ http://www.shynola.com/ i think some of them are VJs, but some good stuff anyway. keep the links coming! __________________ Thankyou Mr George Hotz for the 1.1.2 & 1.1.3 OTB iPhone unlock solution!

Apr 21, 2004, 02:04 PM	#3
Thirteenva macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Pennsylvania	www.blitzds.com www.billybussey.com

Apr 26, 2004, 06:02 AM	#7
iGav macrumors 601 Join Date: Mar 2002	http://www.blind.com/ http://www.buckla.com/buck_2004/index.html http://www.brandnewschool.com/ http://bubble-squeak.com/site03/index.html http://www.dform1.com/reel/lowres.html http://www.dixonbaxi.com/ http://media.mk12.com/mk12v4/index2.html http://www.fullerene.com/ http://www.hungryfordesign.com http://www.interspectacular.com/index.html http://www.transistorstudios.com/ http://www.mograph.net http://www.psyop.tv http://www.mk12.com http://www.tronicstudio.com http://www.one9ine.com http://www.3am-design.com __________________ "Flick the Gestapo.... No, I said Flick, the Gestapo!"

Apr 26, 2004, 06:44 AM	#8
redAPPLE macrumors 68020 Join Date: May 2002 Location: 2 Much Infinite Loops	uhh, what is motion graphics? what good do they do?

Apr 26, 2004, 08:18 AM	#10
iGav macrumors 601 Join Date: Mar 2002	http://www.pleix.net/ http://www.stilettonyc.com/launch.html http://www.foreignoffice.com/ http://www.fullerene.com/ http://www.lobo.cx/ http://www.mainframe.co.uk/ http://www.nakd.tv/ http://playairways.com http://www.sincolor.com.br http://www.spon.com/work_design.html http://www.stardust.tv/2004/main.php http://www.statedesign.co.uk/ http://www.thevfxco.co.uk/nu_site.html http://www.trollback.com http://www.renascent.nl/ http://www.mk12.com/ http://www.attik.com/ http://www.stylewar.com/ __________________ "Flick the Gestapo.... No, I said Flick, the Gestapo!"

Apr 27, 2004, 03:05 AM	#11
redAPPLE macrumors 68020 Join Date: May 2002 Location: 2 Much Infinite Loops	thanks iGav. there is this new apple app called "motion". this sounds ignorant but, can't fcp do any motion graphics?

Apr 29, 2004, 07:18 AM	#13
iGav macrumors 601 Join Date: Mar 2002	http://c404.tv/ http://www.laundrymat.tv/film.php http://www.tomato.co.uk/qtpromo/indexfive.html http://www.moving-picture.co.uk/ __________________ "Flick the Gestapo.... No, I said Flick, the Gestapo!"

Apr 30, 2004, 07:27 AM	#14
iGav macrumors 601 Join Date: Mar 2002	http://www.dokterstudio.com/motion/ http://www.hi-res.net/ __________________ "Flick the Gestapo.... No, I said Flick, the Gestapo!"

Apr 30, 2004, 11:51 AM	#15
neut macrumors 68000 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: here (for now)	suprised this one wasn't metioned: http://www.ultrashock.com/ this one too: http://www.2advanced.com/ peace. __________________ jdubart Eleven11 organech Uncle Bud Last edited by neut : Apr 30, 2004 at 12:47 PM.

May 1, 2004, 08:19 AM	#16
iGav macrumors 601 Join Date: Mar 2002	http://www.wetadigital.com/ __________________ "Flick the Gestapo.... No, I said Flick, the Gestapo!"

May 2, 2004, 07:06 AM	#17
iGav macrumors 601 Join Date: Mar 2002	http://www.animallogic.com/ http://www.oblongbox.com/ http://www.roughcollie.tv/ http://www.xy-1.com/ http://www.intro-uk.com/showreel.html __________________ "Flick the Gestapo.... No, I said Flick, the Gestapo!"

May 2, 2004, 10:12 AM	#18
MetallicPenguin macrumors 6502 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: NC, USA	This isn't what you are looking for but I think they have a cool website: http://whoswestudios.com click on the big picture, then down in the corner click where it says Whos We Version 1 or something.

May 5, 2004, 02:40 PM	#19
iGav macrumors 601 Join Date: Mar 2002	http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/ http://www.tvhome.co.uk/ these 2 links in particular represent the daddy of brit tv identities! http://www.tvhome.co.uk/c4/1999.shtml http://www.tvhome.co.uk/c4/2000.shtml __________________ "Flick the Gestapo.... No, I said Flick, the Gestapo!"

May 5, 2004, 03:25 PM	#20
iGav macrumors 601 Join Date: Mar 2002	http://www.oilfactory.com/ http://www.colonelblimp.com/directors/ http://www.lambie-nairn.com/ http://www.rosehackneybarber.com/directors.php __________________ "Flick the Gestapo.... No, I said Flick, the Gestapo!"

May 6, 2004, 03:19 AM	#21
cb911 Thread Starter macrumors 68040 Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: BrisVegas, Australia	wow! i'm gone for a bit, and you go nuts with the linkage! nice work iGAV! MetallicPenguin, i'll have to check out that link as well. also, not quite motion graphics, but animation. Blur's RockFish is out: http://www.blur.com/html_quicktime/rockfish_480.html it's an animation, and really great quality stuff as well. also, Blur do motion graphics as well, and a bit of everything else really. __________________ Thankyou Mr George Hotz for the 1.1.2 & 1.1.3 OTB iPhone unlock solution!

May 8, 2004, 02:43 PM	#23
iGav macrumors 601 Join Date: Mar 2002	http://www.motiontheory.com/ http://www.xy-1.com/ (these guys used to have a tight showreel online) __________________ "Flick the Gestapo.... No, I said Flick, the Gestapo!"

May 9, 2004, 03:01 PM	#24
iGav macrumors 601 Join Date: Mar 2002	http://www.rsafilms.co.uk/ http://www.styleboost.com/linktracke...of+Speed+Video __________________ "Flick the Gestapo.... No, I said Flick, the Gestapo!"

May 11, 2004, 10:36 AM	#25
iGav macrumors 601 Join Date: Mar 2002	kinda like onedotzero... http://www.resfest.com/ __________________ "Flick the Gestapo.... No, I said Flick, the Gestapo!"

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