Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Fresh off his brooding tribute to Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation”, London CG master Fernando Lazzari brightens the mood in this transcendent work for The Practice, Seth Godin’s new book on making and sharing creative work. [Watch]
This ambitious and highly personal new short film by Helsinki director and video artist Louis Crevier “explores the inner struggles of the artist; the fears, anxieties, and thought patterns that, to some extent, drive their existence.” [Watch]
Parisian artist, art director, and illustrator Ugo Gattoni works his line art magic for French parfumerie maison Diptyque in this holiday charmer highlighting the brand’s Marvelous Beasts collection. [Watch]
Director/animator Troy Browne, a freelancer based in Nottingham, UK, creates a spirited collage-style film for Accenture’s “Black Is” video series, part of an in-house inclusion and diversity initiative. [Watch]
Even if you weren’t a fan of Vince Gilligan’s seminal and multi-award-winning AMC series Breaking Bad, you will appreciate the obsessive detail and meticulous rendering Luke Penry invested in his passion project “Superlab”. [Watch]
Milan motion designer Gabriele Calvi summons a constantly shifting graphic dream for the Danish rock trio Town Portal in his enigmatic new music video for the track “Vanitas”. [Watch]
The 2020 hybrid edition of the Animario animation festival in Madrid opened with this fresh and quirky 90-second sequence animated by hand on a tabletop by Spanish directors and CG pioneers Dvein. [Watch]
With over 318,000 absentee ballots rejected in the 2016 US election, luggage brand Away urges you to travel to your registered place of voting and make certain your voice is heard in 2020. [Watch]
Following standout work for both Thom Yorke and Mitski in 2019, director Saad Moosajee gift wraps dance, costume, VFX, and motion capture in Renaissance lighting for this music video for Japanese singer/songwriter Joji. [Watch]
Smuggler director Jaron Albertin and the MPC design/VFX team offer a glimpse at the future of advertising production in this fully-remote CG spot created with the Unreal game engine and starring the Lexus LF-30 electric concept car. [Watch]
The game trailer and music video genres collide and become one is this new promo starring the CG doppelganger of British rapper/phenom Stormzy produced by Ubisoft Toronto entirely within the Watch Dogs: Legion game engine. [Watch]
In her first project since signing to the Passion Paris roster, director Roxane Campoy conjures a genial solar system designed to highlight the array of eco-responsibility projects supported by UNESCO’s Green Citizens initiative. [Watch]
Intricate and hypnotic, this new video for Wagon Christ (aka Luke Vibert), animated in Photoshop and rendered in hand-drawn 2D by director/illustrator Celyn Brazier, expands on the pair’s 2011 collaboration for the track “Chunkothy”. [Watch]
Passion director Félicien Colmet Daâge captures both the ennui and violence in the daily life of disenfranchised Paris youth in this languid and cinematic video for French acid indie-pop band Kriill. [Watch]
