Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
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]
We’ve come to expect passion projects from the crew at Trizz in Barcelona to be both ambitious and thoughtful (like their recent Earth Day film) and this new music video for composer/producer Ivan Llopis does not disappoint. [Watch]
Electric Studios, the creative crew housed within London VFX powerhouse Electric Theatre Collective, just dropped us the first in their series of original animated projects, an action fantasy about an aging but fearless cephalopod hunter. [Watch]
Camp Mograph USA pitches it’s creative tent Sept 12-16 in the wilds of Ingleside IL (just northwest of Chicago), inviting animators, motion designers, and VFX artists to step away from their screens and reconnect with nature and each other. [Watch]
Director Prasad Kelkar and the motion design crew at Post Office Studios in Mumbai (the immersive content division of Kulfi Collective) combine dramatic scale and austere monochrome compositions to elevate this film for the Nothing Phone (2a) Plus. [Watch]
Swedish art director/designer Joakim Ekstroem fuses his passion for skateboarding with magic realism in this short film exploring how the obsessive search for spots to skate “ultimately shapes the way you perceive the world.” [Watch]
