Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Five years after its premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, David Coquard-Dassault’s somber and evocative post-apocalyptic vision “Peripheria” lands online in the middle of a real-world pre-apocalypse. [Watch]
The latest volley in the bed-in-a-box wars (started with the runaway success of Casper in 2014) arrives courtesy of Purple and the crew at ManvsMachine ramping up their trademark game of turning products into CG art. [Watch]
And now, with a brief distraction from the insanity of the outside world, we present AJ Jefferies, a 3D illustrator/animator and partner at CG studio MDI Digital in Norwich, UK, with “a short film I made about a horse, struggling to exist.” [Watch]
Join Antibody CD Patrick Clair as he walks Stash fans through his thoughtful title update for season 3 of HBO’s sci-fi mind-bender Westworld including imagery generated using AI and machine learning. [Watch]
Stay home, stay inspired! Take a peek at this two-minute preview of STASH 140 which adds another 31 motion projects (plus behind the scenes features and exclusive interviews) to over 5,500 titles included in The Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
It’s hard to go wrong poking fun at fashion films that take themselves too seriously, and adding British actress/model Suki Waterhouse (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) to the mix cements the deal as mandatory comic relief for perilous times. [Watch]
The CNN Motion crew illuminates the surprising and socially complex 5,000-year history of red-colored lips in this beautifully illustrated explainer with art direction by Ignacio Osorio and Alexander Sears. [Watch]
Inspired by video artist Nam Jun Paik’s timeless installation “TV Buddha”, the Solid VFX crew in Seoul, South Korea create an atmospheric CG future populated with a solitary and enigmatic figure. [Watch]
Check the avalanche of surreal CG nonsense going on in the new short film from Peter Tomaszewicz and Christiana Perdiou called “The Shrewd Awakening” which they describe as “vivid, flirtatious, electric, and inconceivable.” [Watch]
After giving us a peek at his comedic chops with a Max Headroom-inspired character in 2013’s “Rap God”, Eminem drops the gloves in this new video for “Godzilla ft. Juice WRLD” playing the full-on fool and multiple characters. [Watch]
The 2020 edition of the TOCA ME Design Conference opened in Munich this month with these striking and thoughtful titles crafted by hometown design and animation studio Uber Eck. [Watch]
The disarmingly stripped-down style and off-kilter text-to-speech performances in director/animator Rory Waudby-Tolley’s animated short “Powerwash (I Love You)” keep you unprepared for the film’s deeper truths and hopeful ending. [Watch]
The dense, detailed, and somewhat delirious style of director/animator/designer Alice Saey (first seen in her promo for Shaking Godspeed’s “She’s Young”) provides a mesmerizing backdrop in this latest work for Jo Goes Hunting. [Watch]
Witness the seamless convergence of comedy and VFX in this new three-spot campaign starring disappointed superheroes for UK insurance provider Direct Line via Hungry Man director Brian Buckley and The Mill VFX crew. [Watch]
