Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Andrew Jones, founder/ECD at FutureDeluxe in London: “Created as part of a global rebrand to coincide with the launch of Ecobee’s new SmartHome products, we were commissioned to design, direct and craft a series of product films to help bring Ecobee to the forefront of SmartHome innovation. [Watch]
The 2020 edition of the Playgrounds media and design festival launched today in its COVID-induced-induced online form with these stop motion titles created at home over Zoom by the crew of Amsterdam prodco The Panics. [Watch]
Director/designer Roman Erohnovich in Moscow: “Logos is a computational and mathematical package for modeling physical processes in the aviation, automotive, nuclear power, and aerospace industries and the first digital product presented by Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation. [Watch]
Creative director Youngmin Kim and the crew at Seoul motion studio Super Very More wrap South Korea’s new pop culture channel MBC M in a cute and quirky graphics package complete with a fabulous making-of video. [Watch]
When their branding pitch for a local design event in Taipei, Taiwan was rejected by the client, Mixcode Studio went ahead and finished the work anyway – creating an array of promotional assets including this blast of motion insanity. [Watch]
New York director/animator Leah Shore shares some less-than-subtle pandemic survival advice in this animated public service announcement powered by a song from Gina Volpe of the NYC punk band Lunachicks. [Watch]
New work from Swiss-born, UK-based director Ben Hibon is always welcome news and this massive launch trailer for Legends of Runeterra – Riot Games’ free-to-play digital collectible card game – demonstrates why. [Watch]
Using a light touch and multiple animation techniques, Niceshit Studio in Barcelona turns a potentially very dry promo for an online course and book on chronic pain into a hopeful, helpful, and very watchable 90-second film. [Watch]
The crew at superdesigners in Moscow just dropped us their latest passion project, a four-month odyssey into the creative process that weaves “the martial grace of the samurai with the textures and fabrics of a hi-tech clothing brand.” [Watch]
Moscow CG artist Sergey Maslov melds his childhood passions for film, astrophysics, and classical art with visual inspiration from Magritte, Escher, Rembrandt, Lynch, and Kubrick into an expansive three-act hallucination. [Watch]
Helen Hsu, a creative director at Digital Domain in Shanghai, takes us deep into a spectacular but lethal underwater world in this CG short film commissioned for Acer’s new line of PCs designed for creative professionals called ConceptD. [Watch]
Director Fyodor Bondarchuk’s recently released Scifi film “Invasion” begins with this intricate and multi-layered prologue created by Moscow CG specialists Dobro to visualize the memories of an alien AI. [Watch]
UK motion designer, animator, and director Ryan Brotherston captures animated snapshots of the new routines that have emerged under life in lockdown with his young family in London. [Watch]
After a year in production, Vancouver 3D generalist Han Yang (whose credits include Aquaman, Logan, and Star Trek: Discovery) just released his new personal film, an ambitious action/fantasy sequence full of dynamic camera work called The Pantheon. [Watch]
