{"id":12592,"date":"2007-12-18T00:51:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T00:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/12\/recent-motion-graphics-goodness.html"},"modified":"2007-12-18T00:51:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T00:51:15","slug":"recent_motion_graphics_goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/recent_motion_graphics_goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent motion graphics goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/feature\/thekingdom.html?showVideo=1\">first four minutes of &#8220;The Kingdom&#8221;<\/a> fly through &#8220;the history of U.S. involvement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.&#8221;&#160; You could call this treatment fast food history, but the concluding image is the most indelible rendering of a bar chart I&#8217;ve seen.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpluv.com\/www\/feeditem\/4256\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>For their latest ad Guinness commissioned a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/11\/08\/nadvert108.xml\">huge set of dominoes<\/a> in an Argentinian mountain village, culminating in cars hitting one another.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h_-jjZT3DNQ\">Here&#8217;s the vid<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Post-It&#8217;s drop f-bombs in this trailer for Douglas Coupland&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gyVgOHMCSKU&amp;feature=related\"><em>The Gum Thief<\/em><\/a>.&#160; (Books have trailers now?) <\/li>\n<li>Things blow up real good in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibelieveinadv.com\/2007\/11\/nissan-note-burst\/\">this spot for the Nissan Note<\/a>.&#160; In a world full of CGI, what look to be good old-fashioned FX can feel pretty refreshing.<\/li>\n<li>Adobe&#8217;s Dennis Radeke runs <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/genesisproject\/\">The Genesis Project<\/a>, a blog devoted to sharing examples, info, and tips to get you started in After Effects and other Adobe tools. <\/li>\n<li>Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zune-arts.net\/\">Zune Arts<\/a> project features all kinds of interesting, often incomprehensible animation and design.&#160; Peep &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandapanther.com\/zuneQT.html\">Masks<\/a>&#8221; for a good example.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motionographer.com\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a simple but interesting time lapse showing the <a href=\"http:\/\/very-appealing.com\/misc\/subwayhistory\/\">growth of the NYC subway system<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/09\/14123.html\">Via<\/a>]&#160; If that&#8217;s up your alley, see also <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0143112651\/ref=nosim\/0sil8\">Transit Maps of the World<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Mac Video Pro <a href=\"http:\/\/macvideopro.digitalmedianet.com\/articles\/viewarticle.jsp?id=178687\">hosts an interview<\/a> with After Effects PM Michael Coleman (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/keyframes\/\">blog<\/a>) discussing his thoughts for the future.&#160; By the way, I&#8217;m told that the AE update for Leopard is due <em>extremely<\/em> soon&#8211;maybe by the time you read this.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first four minutes of &#8220;The Kingdom&#8221; fly through &#8220;the history of U.S. involvement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.&#8221;&#160; You could call this treatment fast food history, but the concluding image is the most indelible rendering of a bar chart I&#8217;ve seen.&#160; [Via] For their latest ad Guinness commissioned a huge set of dominoes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}