Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
French director/photographer/editor Franck Pinel (aka FKY) assembles a fittingly poetic and introspective Rorschach fest for a lovely and plaintive track off Thomas Méreur’s debut album called Dyrhólaey. [Watch]
Director Mischa Rozema and his VFX team at Post Panic in Amsterdam conjure an “electrically charged beast” to reflect the hybrid power and offroad talents of the new DS7 Crossback in this dramatic spot thru Publicis La Maison. [Watch]
NY artist/director Shane Griffin lets loose with a short blast of bouncy color in the Nike Epic React Flyknit Campaign for Nike Football featuring both home and training colorways for Chelsea, Tottenham, PSG, and Barcelona. [Watch]
Multinational UK-based cinema chain Vue makes a case for the healthy escape from connected entertainment in this spot from RSA Films’ Jake Scott with a full order of supporting VFX from the crew at London’s Electric Theatre Collective. [Watch]
International design agency Jones Knowles Ritchie (known for high-profile clients like Dunkin’, Budweiser, and Burger King) apply their many talents to a smaller and more elegant project for London luxury perfume brand Miller Harris. [Watch]
Creative director Jarratt Moody and the oddfellows design and animation crew wrap this explainer for online wholesale marketplace Faire in a soft, minimal, and ultimately welcoming illustration style. [Watch]
Darcy Prendergast, founder/director at prodco Oh Yeah Wow in the Melbourne, Australia says he made “Tomorrow’s On Fire” as a way of trying to process the devastating bushfire crisis currently ravaging his country. [Watch]
Creative director Karin Fong follows stylistically diverse work for “Jack Ryan” on Amazon and “Tell Me a Story” on CBS All Access with these ominous/intriguing titles for the Apple TV+ series “See” which finds humans in a future without their sense of sight. [Watch]
Hot on the heels of their multi-technique work for Gogoro scooters, Taipei studio MixCode zags style-wise to deliver a jolt of hand-drawn dynamics highlighting the benefits of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile game experience. [Watch]
A sweet and quirky animated short about friendship and confronting your anger issues sounds like the perfect way to kick-off what’s looking to be a very unsettling year on many fronts. [Watch]
Agile Films director Simon Willows and the London prodco’s animation/VFX sibling Agile Studios help position Audible as the calmer alternative to mindless scrolling in this kinetic :30 thru London agency Fold7. [Watch]
After tackling screen zombies and consumerism, London artist/animator Steve Cutts turns his talents for rendering modern dilemmas in hyper-detail toward human-induced apocalypse in this devastating music video for Melbourne musician Wantaways. [Watch]
Director Fx Goby and the Nexus crew in London mark the end of production for the VW Beetle with an emotional multi-generation epic rotoscoped by hand and starring Ferdinand Porsche’s original 1938 design. [Watch]
The Ambassadors’ crew in Amsterdam handled the character design, VFX, post, audio and music in this latest heartwarmer for Staatsloterij, the Netherlands’ largest lottery known for its life-changing New Year’s Eve jackpots. [Watch]
