Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
This latest collaboration between filmmaker Kevin McGloughlin and musician/DJ Max Cooper is a hypnotic and handmade music video from ‘Yearning for the Infinite’, Cooper’s “audio/visual rendering of our obsession with the unobtainable.” [Watch]
Inspired by the custom crystal engravings based on facial scans of tourists and their pets, director Alex Robinson at London design/animation studio This Thing Of Ours set out to see if the technique could be used for filmmaking. [Watch]
Somesuch director Steve Rogers and London VFX force Time Based Arts stir up a world of anger and mayhem to frame Coca-Cola’s message of empathy and listening to others delivered by actor/director Natasha Lyonne. [Watch]
Tokyo CG boundary-pushers Onesal just released their newest self-initiated project they describe as “an exploration of tactile textures in nature” and an attempt to visually explain the phenomenon of ASMR. [Watch]
The all-Swedish team of VFX house Swiss, directing collective StyleWar, and agency Forsman & Bodenfors bring the pain of slow and stuttering internet to glitchy, pixelized life in this spot for Scandinavian telco Telia. [Watch]
Director Andrei Brovcenco and the crew at Bucharest studio Framebreed take time off from their usual diet of post work for commercials and film for a quick jab at certain world leaders in this all-CG music video parody called “Bad History – Putin”. [Watch]
Blinkink director Sophie Koko Gate creates a soft and welcoming world to frame the voice of a Nike designer as she details the craft and care she and her team bring to their work on Nike’s bra for kids. [Watch]
The Gentleman Scholar crew is about to perk up your Valentine’s Day with this multi-species, multi-technique animated ode to blind love in the animal kingdom. [Watch]
Director Kim Geldenhuys and Cape Town VFX shop Wicked Pixels take on the challenge of how to capture the essence and beauty of one of the largest and rarest blue diamonds ever discovered, the Okavango Blue. [Watch]
Lil Dicky wants you to know the man behind his rapper renown, in other words, the real Dave Burd. Produced by FX, the show launches March 2nd on Hulu with a boost from this snappy promo with design/animation from STATE and VFX from MPC. [Watch]
The crew at Gimmick Studio in Montreal celebrate wood as “the most human and beautiful material” in this pristine yet inviting CG film for the Woodrise Conference, a technology showcase of sustainable and eco-friendly urban development. [Watch]
In 2019, director/animator Damien Bastelica crashed onto the Stash radar with his animated revenge comedy “Hell Of A Week” and now he’s back with more dark laughs in this short film aimed squarely at climate deniers. [Watch]
Channeling dark early-80’s animation like Watership Down and Heavy Metal, this music video for The Strokes was an international collaboration written/directed by Mike Burakoff with a stellar crew including Benjy Brooke, 2veinte, and Ugo Bienvenu. [Watch]
Over the last two years, Brooklyn director/animator Jack Maschka set aside chunks time away from paying gigs to create this adventure about an alien and a space seed that bestows “unimaginable strength and mysterious magical powers.” [Watch]
