Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Prepare to follow Shanghai director/motion artist Axl Le and London audio house Box of Toys into a dark and disorienting CG fever-dream set in a lurid near-future Hong Kong and focused on an enigmatic character named Vincent. [Watch]
Directors Vitaly Grossmann and Vincent Schwenk in Hamburg, Germany: “The Microsoft Design team approached us to create a teaser for their Fluent Design System – a collection of UX frameworks for creating web and mobile apps that share code, design, and interaction behavior. [Watch]
Montreal director/animator Elizabeth Laferrière brings her talent for spontaneous illustration and motion design to this light and airy music video for hometown electro-pop duo Alfa Rococo. [Watch]
Any five-minute deep-dive into the complexities of AI risks becoming a snooze-fest but Seattle animation director/illustrator Reece Parker and the Trifilm crew keep this film for Microsoft engaging with an array of animation techniques. [Watch]
Strange Beast director/animators Anna Ginsburg, Hannah Jacobs, and Matt Lloyd each contribute a chapter to this heartfelt BBC Radio campaign sharing stories of local groups and individuals working to make life easier in their communities. [Watch]
Former Animade director/designer Russ Etheridge teams with writer/producer (and wife) Ayndrilla Singharay for a whimsical look at obsessive love, facing your fears, and how unlikely relationships can save us in times of disaster. [Watch]
London illustrator/animator Daniel Stankler hand-crafts a surprisingly emotional animated film for UK charity Live Life Give Life highlighting the positive effects of organ donation on the personal relationships of the recipient. [Watch]
Theodor Groeneboom at VFX boutique Rebel Unit in Norway: “We were commissioned to create an abstract visualization of the awakening of a fictional AI character for Tonje Hessen-Schei’s documentary iHuman. [Watch]
STASH 141 lands just in time to froth up your quarantined creative juices, adding another two hours of outstanding motion work (plus behind the scenes features and exclusive interviews) to The Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
With help from Stockholm VFX studios Swiss and Goodbye Kansas, an extremely talented proboscis monkey joins Swedish rock star Håkan Hellström for a uniquely spirited performance in an empty stadium. [Watch]
After 10 years as a VFX animator/previz artist and the success of her first short film in 2017, London writer/director Magali Barbé is back with a near-future heart-warmer starring Timothy Spall and a little robot named Max. [Watch]
The imagination of a young Lego builder kicks into overdrive in this VFX-intensive spot created for The LEGO Agency by HighlightUnlikely director David Mellor and the Framestore crew. [Watch]
Our first nominee for the “Best COVID-related Creative” award goes to Canadian discount grocery chain No Frills for this PSA/music video by the all-Toronto team of VFX shop The Vanity, audio collective SNDWRx, and agency John St. [Watch]
With global food delivery wars amplified by the pandemic lockdown, McCann recruits Snoop Dogg and his entourage (including Riff Raff director François Rousselet and the MPC VFX team) to fortify Just Eat’s new campaign. [Watch]
