Motion Graphics Chicago

GeoMagnetic

xchicago@gmail.com (various) — 2008-04-01

Dr. Spook (Nathan Vogel) is a VJ/DJ live A/V act who began creating electronic music and 3D visuals in the early 90's. Nathan is a producer and director at Minds Eye Media that spends most of his time creating a wide variety of digital projects including Maya 3D animations, music videos, VJ graphics, DVDs, video games, motion graphics, feature film special FX shots and original computer animated shows. As Dr. Spook, Nathan runs and operates a trance record company called GeoMagnetic featuring electronic music CDs and DVDs from around the globe.

Self Portrait

xchicago@gmail.com (various) — 2008-03-21

A short personal project, this animated self portrait hints at what motivates Creamyorange. Nick Campbell is currently working at Digital Kitchen as a Designer and Animator.

Errata

xchicago@gmail.com (various) — 2008-03-07

Errata is an animation made by photocopying copies of copies. Starting with a blank sheet of paper, each successive copy becomes a frame of animation, meaning that each on-screen image is a copy of the last. All movements, pans and zooms in the film were accomplished using standard zoom and shrink features on copy machines; the animation camera used to shoot the copies onto 16mm film was not used to manipulate or direct the film's motion. Comprising thousands of copies made on a dozen copiers, the resulting imagery is a moving Rorschach test of analog textures, bleeding ink spots and pareidolic cloud formations.

microtakeover

xchicago@gmail.com (various) — 2008-03-05

microtakeover is an exploration of the small vastness of life. An expression and indirect communication that intends to let the viewer experience however many levels of size and the causation that space defines.

Motion Graphics Festival 2008

xchicago@gmail.com (various) — 2008-01-09

Lift Motion Design and Creative Chaos created this astounding intro video for the Moton Graphics Festival 2008. The production process heavily integrated the motion with the sound design by The Great Mundane.

Stash 37 Trailer

xchicago@gmail.com (various) — 2007-10-15

The main disk of Stash 37 is probably our most consistently impressive to date with these highlights punctuating the line-up: Psyop makes more epic Coke magic with "Happiness Factory: The Movie" (on the cover); Framestore swims upstream for the Chemical Brothers' "The Salmon Dance" video; No Brain and Mac Guff put a Rubik twist on traffic for Citroen; The Mill proves Guinness is "Alive Inside" in spectacular fashion; Asylum grabs us front row seats for a peek into the intricate and sordid lives on HBO's "Voyeur"; Three Legged Legs ramps the action way up for Amp energy drink; Stefan Nadelman brings a little sting to his own peculiar bee movie; and Wizz gets steamy in the shower with the new sexy robot for Phillips.

MGFest07 Intro Video

xchicago@gmail.com (various) — 2007-06-03

Chicago Motion Graphics Festival 2007
The Premier Midwestern Event catering to 3D and Compositing Effects
January 25-28th 2007, various locations downtown Chicago

This four-day festival pairs daily educational opportunities with nightly industry events.

www.MGChicago.com

Chicago Motion Graphics Festival 2006 Recap

xchicago@gmail.com (various) — 2007-06-02

Kevin at LimeBlog just published this mix of live footage taken at the recent MG Festival.

From his site: "Clips from the Motion Graphics Festival here in Chicago over a 3 day period touring local post production facilities. Overall a very cool experience, looking forward to next years."

Go there to leave a comment about the video!

Special Invite: Ryan Gilmore

xchicago@gmail.com (various) — 2007-06-01

This demo reel both illustrates the great artistry of motion designer Ryan Gilmore, and provides context for that work by showing the diversity of videos called Motion Graphics.