Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
London’s Inertia Studios (whose love of outdoor CG adventures we’ve noted here and here), is back in the bush with a gripping product film for Marin Bikes highlighting the features and benefits of their Alpine Trail models. [Watch]
Art director/animator Ignacio Osorio (who won an Emmy for his motion work on CNN’s The Hippie Trails doc), conjures a tactile ode to geometric abstraction in this passion project, an intriguing mix of handmade collage and digital tools. [Watch]
The welcome trend of entertaining process reels continues with this riveting look at the CG experiments behind Ditroit’s latest work for Hublot, a showcase for the brand’s collab with British designer Samuel Ross and his studio SR_A. [Watch]
Building on their previous work for Microsoft (see here and here), the NotReal motion team layers up a snappy mix of graphic design, illustration, and CG to showcase how Windows 11 integrates with the daily lives of its users. [Watch]
Drawing on visual references including vintage museum dioramas and the pioneering stop-motion of Ray Harryhausen, LA director Brent Bonacorso leverages a happy accident in Midjourney into a rousing spec spot for Johnnie Walker. [Watch]
French animator and CG artist Paul Lavau (whose credits include Despicable Me 2 and Minions), teams with Paris studio Wizz to craft a trio of emotional vignettes capturing very personal memories of adolescence. [Watch]
Directors Katrina Crawford and Mark Bashore at Seattle studio Plains of Yonder offer an insightful peek at the process behind their rodent-infested titles for the new Kathleen Jordan Netflix comedy series The Decameron. [Watch]
London animation studio Shotopop may have outdone themselves with this promo for the Marvel Snap digital collectible card game as YouTube commenters are now begging Marvel for a Deadpool animated series based on this style. [Watch]
Balázs Simon’s new video for British duo Sad Night Dynamite (co-directed with Cátia Abreu) is a darkly comic conflagulation of prosthetics and nightmarish digital VFX but the good news is he just dropped Stash fans a peek into the process. [Watch]
Blinkink director Zach Tavel builds a mythological world from miniatures and models to house the godly comedic talents of Kate Berlant in this aggressively oddball launch film for California plant-based cheese brand Plonts. [Watch]
The CG sub-genre of dramatic sculptural character diorama’s sees an ambitious new chapter with this launch trailer from director Jakub Jabłoński and the crew at Platige Image for the Esports World Cup (EWC) in Riyadh. [Watch]
Working with CD Theresa Warburton and the creative team at CBC Sports in Toronto, animator/illustrator Amir Mrzae amplifies the multi-dimensional joie de vivre on display at the Paris Olympics in two wonderfully upbeat films. [Watch]
Directors Joey Recoskie and DissEmbargo (Sebastian Helene and The Dink) lead the Tendril design and motion team on this intimate peek at the F.02 robot, Figure’s second-generation model of “embodied artificial intelligence.” [Watch]
The growing (and welcome) trend of studios to passionately carry on with projects after they have been cancelled by the client continues with the release of this cutscene compilation produced by Glasgow CG mavens Revenant. [Watch]
