Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
The VFX crew at Untold in London, who brought you this fire-sneezing dragon and this very calm bull, pack the digital muscle onto the latest comedy epic for European DIY chain Hornbach, directed by Tom Kuntz thru Heimat Berlin. [Watch]
WIZZ stop-motion specialist Victor Hagelin, who graced the cover of Stash 131 with his fabulous “Captain 3D” short, is back with more frame-by-frame fun in this new spot for travel site Expedia thru agency TeamOne LA. [Watch]
Chosen as the UK City of Culture for 2021, Coventry celebrates its diverse history of innovation in industry, music, art, and activism with this promo from director/animator Ewan Jones Morris and the motion design team at Friends Electric. [Watch]
After a COVID-induced delay, the 2020 College football season roared back onto ESPN last week, wrapped in a high-octane branding and promo package from the design and animation crew at Elastic. [Watch]
Somesuch director Daniel Wolfe, editor Paul Watts, and The Mill VFX team craft the riveting origin story of Maurice Ashley, a chess-obsessed Brooklyn kid who became the game’s first black grandmaster. [Watch]
Nexus director Robertino Zambrano applies his signature illustrative style to footage of Kansas City Chiefs superstar QB Patrick Mahomes to elevate this spot for local Missouri Credit Union CommunityAmerica. [Watch]
The latest passion project from the master storytellers at Dress Code illustrates both the loneliness and exhilaration experienced by renowned goalkeeper Robert Primrose Wilson while starring for Arsenal from 1963-1973. [Watch]
Starting with Diffusion MRI imagery from a brain scan, director Shane Griffin and the Psyop CG crew create an intensely complex and anatomically accurate model of the brain and its neural interactions for The Mayo Clinic thru TBWA/Chiat Day. [Watch]
Riot Games’ free multiplayer first-person shooter Valorant, which launched in June with this trailer, just dropped this sweet piece of motion madness from We Are Royale (WAR) to intro a new weapon skin line called Glitchpop. [Watch]
This enigmatic and otherworldly blend of CG, VFX, and live-action footage from Oriol Puig and the Trizz crew for English pop masters London Grammar will keep you guessing as to what’s what, and what it all means. [Watch]
FINCH director Kyra Bartley gathers an international team of animators to create 1,400 of the most emotional frames you will witness this year to convey the heartbreak of a mother whose son suffered from Duchenne muscular dystrophy. [Watch]
In April 2020, Grimes released “You’ll Miss Me When I’m Not Around” along with an invitation for fans to engage with the music video’s green screen backgrounds. Los Angeles director Brent Bonacorso took her up on the offer. [Watch]
New virtual animation studio Super Dope formed in the depths of lockdown and now, after five months of work, introduces themselves to the world with this effervescent CG character piece called “Ice Cream.” [Watch]
Although we never actually see them, I feel safe saying the three characters in Karl Poyzer and Joe Roberts’ new animated comedy “Floaters,” are some of the most endearing and clearly defined in recent memory. [Watch]
