Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
A crew of lovable but hapless gummy worms faces down a series of existential crises in the latest handmade animated work from Blinkink director Sam Gainsborough for German confectionery brand Trolli. [Watch]
Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon bring their Oscar-nominated talents for character and narrative to Greenpeace’s ongoing media battle to stop deforestation in this follow-up to Passion’s breakout 2018 spot “Rang-tan”. [Watch]
NYC animation/VFX studio Bonfire and agency DiMassimo Goldstein craft striking metaphors to deliver a solid emotional punch in this PSA for US non-profit Partnership to End Addiction powered by music from The Lumineers. [Watch]
Back in 2015, Caviar director Keith Schofield hosed down the relentless flow of skateboard videos with his low-tech VFX fest for Joywave’s “Somebody New” – now he’s having his way with just-as-tiresome club and DJ tropes. [Watch]
Directors Ibran Trassierra and Marcello Buselli at Device in Barcelona translate the linear visions of Italian illustrator Jonathan Calugi into a nonstop flow of minimalist engagement in this spot for new Spanish telco Guuk. [Watch]
Giant Ant created these five environmental explainers about the urgency of combating climate change for TED in just four weeks, with a compelling VO from actress/producer Kristen Bell anchoring the message. [Watch]
The latest episode of Chromebook’s The Adulthood, an insightful series about “finding your way in the modern world” designed and animated by the crew at Friends Electric, features North Carolina rapper Jonathan Lyndale Kirk (aka DaBaby). [Watch]
Royal College of Art grad Zohar Dvir describes her student film Mercury’s Retrograde as “an inner dialogue about seeking answers, presented in a comic and lighthearted way, concealing a deeper tragic truth of our generation.” [Watch]
What would your childhood drawings look like if dad was a possessed serial killer? The LA Digital Kitchen team stabs at the answer with these titles for Hulu’s take on the Marvel Comics characters Daimon and Satana Helstrom. [Watch]
LA design and motion studio Laundry, led by ECD’s Tony Liu and PJ Richardson, brings an irrepressible energy to this launch spot for the new Adidas shoe and clothing line developed with Richard Tyler Blevins, aka star gamer/streamer Ninja. [Watch]
The life and work of groundbreaking French couturier Pierre Cardin are honored by peers and proteges in this short doc directed by Matthew Miller and animated by the team at Moving Colour in Los Angeles. [Watch]
Private Island director Chris Boyle, who unleashed plenty of insanity for this 2018 F1 clip, pushes past all remaining shreds of reason in the launch spot for the FitXR fitness VR platform thru London agency Uncommon. [Watch]
Need a reminder of just how surreal the past four years have been? Have a look at our fave clips from the newest “Trump Facts” series (animated with all the best factuality) by Fraser Davidson and Ben Skinner at Cub Studio in London. [Watch]
Motion masters Patrick Clair and Raoul Marks at Antibody make the case for a dark near-future in the US with this speculative explainer positing a civil breakdown in the aftermath of the 2020 election. [Watch]
