Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Since graduating from the UK’s National Film & Television School in 2019, Greek director/designer Fokion Xenos has watched his ambitious MA graduation film “Heatwave” selected for 137 film festivals, winning 20+ awards along the way. [Watch]
After breakout collaborations on animated game trailers for Mother Russia and My Friend Pedro, US indie game publisher Devolver Digital gives WIZZ directors CRCR carte blanche on this film for the launch of “reverse horror” title Carrion. [Watch]
Barcelona CG artisans Six N. Five sculpt a series of eccentric and elegant vignettes for Burberry’s Pocket Bag Collection, a playful twist on an archival design updated by Burberry chief creative officer Riccardo Tisci. [Watch]
Working in close collaboration with Ridley Scott, Studio AKA director Steve Small crafts a somber but somehow hopeful title sequence for “Raised by Wolves”, the new HBO Max series about androids raising human children on a distant planet. [Watch]
Passion Pictures’ stop motion maven Mark Waring, who counts Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride” and Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” among his many credits, conjures a heartwarming tale of cooperation and trade for Standard Chartered bank thru TBWA/Singapore. [Watch]
Division director Francois Rousselet and the Mathematic animation team in Paris mix live-action with inky animation in this homage to Glen Keane’s Oscar-winning animated short “Dear Basketball” for Nike China thru Wieden+Kennedy Shanghai. [Watch]
Propelled by quirky hand-drawn animation and gentle humor, this new spot from the team at Buck thru R/GA for marketing automation and email platform Mailchimp, offers entrepreneurs hope and encouragement in tough times. [Watch]
LOOCreative, a motion design studio in Seoul just hit the Stash radar with this full CG title sequence for “My Country”, a TV series based on South Korean history produced by local subscription network and broadcaster JTBC. [Watch]
Set in a de-humanizing future, Imaginary Forces’ intense new brand film for Japanese cosmetics brand SK-II reveals the deep emotional connection between Misaki Matsutom and Ayaka Takahashi, Japan’s first Olympic Badminton Doubles gold medalists. [Watch]
São Paulo animation studio Factory Brasil and agency FCB Health Brasil help Nestlé Health Science mark National Nutritionist Day with this gentle and touching story of a healthcare professional who refuses to give up on her patient. [Watch]
A thoughtful and ultimately emotional look at the world in 2020, “Right Now” is the latest in-house short film from Vancouver’s Giant Ant, written by studio co-founder and ECD Jay Grandin. [Watch]
London design and motion mavens Art&Graft let loose with an inclusive and brilliantly bonkers rebrand for Boing, the global division of Warner Bros. Entertainment aimed at kids and young adults. [Watch]
Oliver Davies, The Mill director who made a splash earlier this summer with his visually innovative work for Manchester United and Adidas, returns with a striking and surreal VFX adventure for Dashlane’s password manager. [Watch]
The dreary tedium of a New York subway ride transforms into a 60-second psychotropic adventure courtesy of Partizan director Antoine Bardou-Jacquet and Paris VFX masters Mathematic thru 72andSunny for Adobe’s Photoshop. [Watch]
