Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
As promised last week in their teaser trailer, Patrick Clair and Raoul Marks at Antibody are pushing past the confines of their client work “to find new modes of visual storytelling” with a series of ambitious short films. [Watch]
Based on this ambitious film for Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi and their new SU7 Ultra EV supercar, we suggest adding Shanghai’s Opalus Studio to your watch list of up and coming CG motion design and VFX talent. [Watch]
As FutureDeluxe lays out in this striking black and white brand film for Colorado energy company Radia, the planet’s largest aircraft is custom-built to deliver turbine blades as tall as the Statue of Liberty directly to onshore wind farms. [Watch]
Director/designer Gonzalo Miranda at Blanco Void in Madrid just sent us the studio’s latest in-house project, a creative exploration disguised as a lyrical and light-infused product film called “Diffuser Series”. [Watch]
London VFX force Untold Studios and agency VCCP, whose previous work for Virgin Media includes this cruising cow and this gliding goat, caps the “To Better and Beyond” campaign trilogy with a joy-riding walrus. [Watch]
The next edition of the globe-hopping design event Motion Plus Design happens Saturday Oct. 5th in the spectacular Croatian city of Split on the Adriatic Sea, featuring speakers from the US and Europe. [Watch]
Sensor.Graphics, a new and anonymous US-based design and motion studio, just slipped onto the Stash radar with their submission of this intricate and intriguing CG experiment “depicting the present and future of technology.” [Watch]
Petrick Animation Studio, whose many styles of character work we track here, lets loose with a deranged sequence for Oleg Trofim’s superhero feature film Major Grom: The Game, “bringing to life the psychologically unstable narrator-hero.” [Watch]
Derek Lau, a designer/animator currently working at BUCK in Sydney, takes time out from client work to transform his love of historical Chinese martial arts films into a painterly and carefully choreographed short film called Wanderer. [Watch]
Whether you’re a seasoned pro, student, or freelancer in motion graphics, animation, or design, this is your chance to expand your skills and connect with 400+ creative professionals in Chicago on September 20th. [Watch]
Fresh off their three Emmy nominations last month, title sequence masters Patrick Clair and Raoul Marks just dropped the trailer for their tech-driven anthology series of short films Antibody Originals, launching August 30. [Watch]
In their latest in-house motion project, CD Jorge R. Canedo E. and the team at Ordinary Folk in Vancouver slow things down for an emotional and expressionist look at the interaction of light, glass, water, and darkness. [Watch]
Tokyo motion design innovators Onesal (whose best CG work we track here), bring an abstract and elegant monochrome moodiness to this product film for US skincare brand SkinCeuticals through Brooklyn agency CA1 CA2. [Watch]
Tim Miller and Blur Studio are following up Love, Death & Robots with Secret Level, a new Prime Video adult anthology series of 15 animated short films based on some of the planet’s most-played video games. [Watch]
