Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Untold Studios, who nailed the VFX on the 2019 John Lewis holiday spot, joins Blink director Nick Ball to rustle up a new mascot called the Money Calm Bull in this blockbuster for UK financial services website MoneySuperMarket. [Watch]
Based on Erika Lee’s 2019 book “America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States”, this seven-minute film was commissioned by Seattle non-profit Densho for a new American history curriculum in middle schools [Watch]
Completed from start to finish in lockdown, this high-flying spot was crafted by a remote team of 20+ artists and animators lead by Nexus directors Smith & Foulkes for HP printers thru Goodby Silverstein & Partners. [Watch]
Mexico City director, designer, and animator Rodrigo Miguel (aka Numecaniq) reveals the labor-intensive, multi-layered hand-painted process he used to create the latest Rick and Morty madness for Adult Swim. [Watch]
From The Mill: “Starting in LA and spearheaded by The Mill’s Anastasia Skrebneva, the mission of Artists for Black Lives is simple: to make and sell art to raise money for organizations supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. [Watch]
A lead designer at BMW Group Designworks in Munich, Evgeny Maslov found inspiration in the constraints of COVID lockdown, deciding “to act and put all my knowledge to use.” The first result is the foldable cardboard BUMASK. [Watch]
French director Hervé de Crécy (who shared the Best Animated Short Film Oscar for “Logorama” in 2010), teams remotely with the VFX crew at Platige Image to create a massive urban Candyland complete with mini cheese superheroes. [Watch]
Time to let loose with Jaime Rodriguez, New Jersey’s own purveyor of loosely-tuned animated insanity with his new video for “Drunk” by Israeli-American YouTuber Yoav Landau, aka The Living Tombstone. [Watch]
Born in Ireland and currently based in Los Angeles, animation director Chris O’Hara uses snappy action and dark comedy to look at the downward spiral of our growing obsession with pill culture in his newest short film “Quick Fix”. [Watch]
Based on a script from their video producer Alix Ablaza, the team at design and animation studio Good Form in Toronto tackle the subject of anxiety and loneliness in this new short film, a labor of love 18 months in the making. [Watch]
Former Savages frontwoman Jehnny Beth launches her debut solo album with this striking music video from Hingston Studio in London, finding intimate moments in the drama and austerity of classical sculpture. [Watch]
Jamaican-born Los Angeles director Jazeel Gayle and a team of friends use stark imagery, bold typography, and the words of MLK Jr. to create a stirring motion piece that Gayle offers to customize for use by any cause or organization. [Watch]
Veteran Italian illustrator, animator, and educator Roberto Catani’s latest short film “Per Tutta la Vita” (For All Life), guides viewers on a richly textured and utterly unpredictable exploration into relationships and memory. [Watch]
Slovenian 3D artist Rok Andic crafts a classic slapstick conundrum with thoroughly modern tools in his third short film, a character comedy about an astronaut named Ben and his need for a ladder. [Watch]
