Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Director Quinten Delahaye leads the design and animation crew at German studio Sehsucht into a brooding merger of alchemy and mystery in these opening titles for the Bump Festival of creativity in Belgium. [Watch]
Creative director Casey Latiolais and the crew at LA animation studio Good Secrets transform what could have been a dry corporate brand explainer into an engaging and unpredictable dance of abstraction, color, and typography. [Watch]
Nominated at the 2023 Emmys for their groundbreaking The Rings of Power main titles, Katrina Crawford and Mark Bashore at Seattle’s Plains of Yonder double-down on their cymatic-based visuals for season two. [Watch]
UK husband and wife directing duo Garth and Ginny Jones (who Stash fans know as Persistent Peril) have relaunched themselves as Yeto – re-teaming here with illustrator Owen Davey to promo his fantasy board game Fame & Fable. [Watch]
The design and animation team at ManvsMachine teams with London agency Lucky Generals to conjure a frothy anchor spot at the center of a new branding campaign for Uswitch, the UK price comparison service and switching site. [Watch]
Spanish automotive maker Cupra recently unveiled two new models at a high-profile launch event with the help of nine virtual fashion models and their exotic digital clothing – all designed and animated by the team at Tigrelab in Barcelona. [Watch]
Channel 4 marks the new season of its culinary phenomenon The Great British Bake Off with this pseudo-psychedelic spot directed by Bonnie Taylor Forsyth at Nexus with Sydney’s Mighty Nice handling the animation. [Watch]
Hook Creative Studio, the new Melbourne venture founded by brothers Pat Langton (ex-agency creative) and Matt Langton (motion designer) steps boldly forth with an audacious branding exercise based on the Greek letter Phi. [Watch]
The Mill VFX crew flex the full spectrum of their creature and compositing talents in this charmer directed by MJZ’s Matthijs van Heijningen gathering viewers (and smiles) for the NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. [Watch]
The first in our new series profiling top motion studios launches with a virtual visit to Art&Graft in London packed with insightful takes from CD Stephen Middleton on the team’s approach to creative, culture, and hiring. [Watch]
The Mexico City edition of the OFFF festival opened last week with these exuberant titles from director Itay Tevel and the Hornet crew who use the sequence to weave an abstract narrative of how human and AI creativity can coexist. [Watch]
New work from director Somei Sun and his team of CG artists is always a treat and this spot for Chinese consumer electronics brand iQOO – a hardcore action ballet about the evil of lagging frame rates – is the latest proof. [Watch]
Xinyue Gu a motion designer based in Savannah, GA, combines both delicate and disturbing imagery into a speculative personal take on the titles for the TV adaptation of the Korean novel The Fruit of My Woman. [Watch]
The next edition of the globe-hopping Motion Plus Design event happens October 12th in Seoul, South Korea featuring a international line up of stellar presenters. [Watch]
