Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Founder/ECD Andrew Jones at FutureDeluxe in London describes FuturePlay, the studio’s new in-house exploratory project, as a “study of procedural systems designed to artistically reinterpret external spatial and visual inputs.” [Watch]
Montréal creative Rémi Vincent gathered 17 animators and designers from across the city to collaborate on this dynamic and ultra-wide motion piece originally projected on a wall during the 2019 MAPP Montréal event. [Watch]
Elastic creative director Jeff Han tells Stash how chess became the metaphor for the strategic battle between post-war Nazis and Al Pacino’s team of “Hunters” in the titles of Amazon’s new original series. [Watch]
Variations on the rounded red square of Huawei’s AppGallery logo act as the narrative thread binding together the disparate vignettes of this vigorous spot for the company’s official app distribution platform with design and VFX by The-Artery NY. [Watch]
The team at NotReal in Buenos Aires fuse their typographic, motion, and live-action production skills into a wonderfully kinetic, compact, and lighthearted brand film complete with making-of video. [Watch]
Seattle director/CG artist Richard Lord, who crafted one of our favorite CG music videos of all time for Alessandro Parisi in 2019, creates a kooky/cool new breed of automated alien life in this promo for Plus Device called “Our Pleasures” [Watch]
Larian Studios’ launch of the latest take on the Dungeons & Dragons RPG franchise Baldur’s Gate includes this formidable opening sequence animated by Unit Image with obvious passion, and given the scale of action and set pieces, unlimited ambition. [Watch]
After six years in the biz, Barcelona animation/illustration prodco Drasik Studio just dropped their first personal project, a visceral and manic frame-by-frame 2D experiment called “Bend Reality”. [Watch]
Wagamama, the UK-based restaurant chain serving pan-Asian food based on Japanese cuisine, takes their first leap into animated ads with this enchanting and carefully crafted spot directed by Mads Broni at Passion Animation thru MullenLowe. [Watch]
Turns out one in four disabled people in the UK say negative attitudes from other passengers prevent them from using public transport so agency VMLY&R brought in Nexus directors Smith & Foulkes to help change a few minds. [Watch]
The venerable State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow sets its sights on attracting children and teens with this vibrant and mischievous promo by hometown studio Petrick for an exhibition on the history of Russian fairy tales. [Watch]
In 2018, Wieden+Kennedy London and Academy director Ian Pons Jewell convinced the world “Phones Are Good” and now they’ve dialed up the tongue-in-cheek quotient for Three’s 5G service with layers of unrelenting VFX from The Mill crew. [Watch]
The all-London team of agency Superunion and motion studio Found combine dance, pyrotechnics, and motion capture into a spectacular campaign for the London Symphony Orchestra’s 2020/21 season. [Watch]
Inspired by the fantastical work of Shanghai artist Jie Ma, Korean motion designer Yonghoon Jeong (aka Samhwagoon) creates a series of striking dream-state vignettes in this personal film he calls Retrospection. [Watch]
