Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Manila studio The Acid House works with agency Wunderman Thompson Philippines to fashion a distinctive open for Adobo’s 2019 Festival of Ideas and show how “different economic sectors are connecting and prioritizing collaboration over competition.” [Watch]
Berlin CG-stylists f°am Studio and Microsoft Office director of design Nando Costa unveil the new look of Outlook, OneDrive, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint in a pristine and tactile film launched on the new microsoft_design Instagram account. [Watch]
Passion Animation’s annual animated Christmas card takes on added weight this year doubling as a gentle holiday heart-tugger for UK charity Re-engage and their mission to fight loneliness for people over 75. [Watch]
Bito Studio in Taipei, Taiwan uses their opening for the 2019 Golden Pin Design Awards to raise awareness of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals and “inspire the design community to take urgent action for sustainability.” [Watch]
This year’s inhouse holiday short from London’s Blue Zoo and first-time director Katie Gascoyne is a sweet and all-too-true film disguised as a video for “Let’s Not Go Away,” the Christmas single from English indie band Scouting for Girls. [Watch]
London motion designer/director Jesper Lindborg applies his talents for poetic 3D abstraction to this elegant brand film for the planet’s first commercial and scalable process for recycling cotton textiles back into cellulose. [Watch]
Cincinnati agency Empower takes a rap-fueled poke at the downsides of their Big Apple competitors while hawking the many benefits of their hometown in this fun promo from the all-Buenos Aires team of Hola Bosque and 4HUMANS. [Watch]
The 2019 Berlin edition of the CICLOPE Festival opened with Final Frontier and Le Cube’s semi-autobiographical journey back to the 80s and 90s “fondly recalling days in the city, skating, sketching tattoos, and exploring self expression.” [Watch]
After opening the holiday tear faucet last year with Henry Hedgehog’s “First Christmas” (Stash 133), Passion Animation directors Kyra & Constantin are back with another fuzzy and lovable CG cast for Erste Group Bank thru agency Jung von Matt/DONAU. [Watch]
Born in Northern Italy and now based in Helsinki, Finland, Lucas Zanotto started out as a product designer before moving into motion design, directing, building zany apps for kids, and most recently CG character loops. [Watch]
The combined talents of U.S. style masters Los York and Berlin CG iconoclasts f°am Studio nudge this film for Motorola’s folding-screen update of their classic Razr over the line into a mainstream hit as it nears 40M views on YouTube. [Watch]
Hot on the heels of Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick’s holiday spectacular for Aldi, fellow Psyopian Marie Hyon crafts a heart-warmer for Chick-Fil-A thru McCann in support of more “together time” for families everywhere. [Watch]
What is it like to not recognize faces? Even your own. German studio Fabian&Fred and neuroscientist/filmmaker Valentin Riedl offer answers by turning one woman’s real-life struggles with prosopagnosia (face blindness) into a visually poetic film. [Watch]
Chinese motion designer Lei Alucard (Peng Lei) foreshadows the 2020 Pause Fest this February in Melbourne with an atmospheric, thoughtful, and wonderfully detailed (if somewhat dystopian) CG film. [Watch]
