Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
London design and media practice InferStudio envision a not-too-distant-future where cities have become giant fulfillment centers built around catering to our smallest desires in an “Instant”. [Watch]
Good People director (and former agency creative director) Maged Nassar’s newest work features Egyptian rap artists Abyusif and Marwan Pablo in a kinetic high-contrast spot/music video full of gritty motion and post work. [Watch]
Just when you thought it was safe to smoke weed again, Little Minx director Romain Laurent and French motion designer Clément Morin unleash the hard and hallucinatory truth in this video for the first single off the TOKiMONSTA’s album Oasis Nocturno. [Watch]
Amsterdam prodco The Panics (formerly PostPanic) celebrate their 21st anniversary with a special edition of their bi-annual Panic Room motion meet-up complete with these haunting CG opening titles from House of Panic director Kim Taylor. [Watch]
Wednesday Studio in London translates a rollicking exchange between jazz greats Kamasi Washington and Herbie Hancock into a vibrant short film about the importance of creative collaboration and the power of music to transcend differences. [Watch]
Shanghai digital artist and director Axl Le constructs a riveting philosophical odyssey through a surreal world in this CG short film powered by the insights of British writer/lecturer Alan Watts. [Watch]
UK director/animator Dan Castro, whose standout student films “Herman Brown is Feeling Down” and “Big Finds A Trumpet” planted him firmly on the Stash radar, is back with a monologue-driven and deeply personal work. [Watch]
Oscar-nominated in 2019 for their breakout short film “One Small Step”, Taiko Studio teams with Shanghai prodco Final Frontier to craft an epic heartwarmer in an illustrative 3D style for Airbnb China. [Watch]
Jolt your inspiration circuits back to life with this preview of STASH 139 which adds another 31 outstanding motion projects (plus behind the scenes features and exclusive interviews) to over 5,500 titles included in The Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
Currently working as a senior motion graphics designer at ViacomCBS in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thiago Miranda just dropped us his passion project – a mellow, quasi-psychedelic space fantasy and the perfect escape on a freezing Friday in New York. [Watch]
Finnish cartoonist Milla Paloniemi adapts her beloved character Kiroileva siili (cursing hedgehog) and his fondness for foul language to the green initiative of Helsinki conglomerate Kesko in this lovable spot called “Kiroileva Hiili” (cursed carbon). [Watch]
The strange and witty CG exploits of artist collective MEAT DEPT continue in brilliant form with this jaw-dropper, a perfect match for the intense and eccentric track “Very Noise” from French musician Gautier Serre (aka Igorrr). [Watch]
Director Gavin Strange unites the stop-motion and CG animation teams at Aardman for this Greenpeace call to action highlighting the pressures of climate change, plastic pollution, oil drilling, and overfishing on the world’s oceans. [Watch]
Moscow design team CLAN (not to be confused with CLAN vfx in São Paulo) show off their many visual talents strapped together by wit and whimsy in these five broadcast promo’s for Russian sports network Match TV. [Watch]
