Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
In 2018 Stash published a delightfully excentric game trailer for a 2D puzzle-adventure called Flipping Filip. The hand-crafted video was our first sighting of director/animator Mehdi Alibeygi who just released this new personal film called “No.7”. [Watch]
Words like sublime and masterful come to mind when I watch Gianluca Maruotti’s stop motion work, and this uplifting new music video for Australian singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd just serves to further reinforce those adjectives. [Watch]
Stockholm 3D animation specialists Milford just released their first venture into longer-form content, a rollicking inhouse film about the misadventures of “An Ordinary Seal”, written and directed by animation supervisor Antonio Deiana. [Watch]
The simplest of shapes interact and multiply into a complex and dynamic macro view of how humans spread a virus in this passion project by Miami-based director/animator Carlos Rivero and composer/sound designer Ivette Carmona. [Watch]
The Istanbul team of director/designer Ethem Cem and motion designer/art director Ugur Baltepe sharpen an ethereal, timeless tone into a sinister edge in these titles crafted in CG for the eight-part detective thriller “Alef”. [Watch]
Just before Christmas in 2012, London artist/animator Steve Cutts released “Man”, an ironically jaunty short film about the Anthropocene apocalypse in all its dark and ridiculous glory. [Watch]
In their latest round of work for The Paramount Channel, Airplan Studio in Budapest, Hungary, unites films from various genres into a consistent campaign with a look reminiscent of airbrushed and serigraph movie posters. [Watch]
An allegory about the dangers of following your deepest instincts, “Sous la Glace” (Under the Ice), a CG short film by six students at École des Nouvelles Images comes wrapped in the most sublime digital cinematography we’ve seen this year. [Watch]
It may only be 25 seconds long, but this animated micro-short called “Feed the Urge” from Amsterdam design and motion studio Woodwork delivers days of character and humor with a crisp, confident style. [Watch]
Here’s an excellent way to perk up yet another stay-at-home Tuesday: A playfully aggressive and stylized music video for Japanese four-piece rock band INNOSENT in FORMAL by Tokyo digital artist and director Kota Yamaji. [Watch]
London animation studio The Line says they did not hesitate when asked to bring their well-honed anime skills to this brand film for a new trail bike from California’s YT Industries, “You want a big old anime sword fight? Say no more!” [Watch]
When FITC had to cancel the 2020 edition of their flagship event in Toronto, the crew and director Erin Sarofsky choose to release the conference titles as a reminder of “What You May Find” at future intersections of design and technology. [Watch]
Motion designer and director Jordan Bergren: “In late 2019 my friend Franki Cambeletta reached out asking if I’d be interested in creating a title sequence for his upcoming documentary ‘Lemp’s Last Wright’. [Watch]
The all-Sydney team of agency Bear Meets Eagle on Fire, digital prodco T&DA, and audio house Rumble Studios create a rousing and retro-inspired browser-based game with the “aim to give players a fun distraction during quarantine.” [Watch]
