Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
One of the standout films from the 2019 class at French animation school Gobelins, Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Lunch on the Grass) tracks a famous scientist whose bedrock skepticism (and life) is shattered after a UFO encounter. [Watch]
London’s Untold Studios just leaped onto the world-wide VFX radar nailing the chance to work with Blink director Dougal Wilson and create a loveable dragon named Edgar for this year’s John Lewis Christmas epic. [Watch]
Kevin the Carrot is back for another Aldi holiday adventure courtesy of Stink directors Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick with animation/VFX by Psyop and cheeky references to Peaky Blinders, A Christmas Carol, and The Greatest Showman. [Watch]
Following on their 2018 breakout music video for virtual K-pop girl group K/DA, League of Legends enlists UK animation house The Line to make lightning strike twice – this time with a hip-hop-inspired group called True Damage. [Watch]
The all-Paris team of director Akama, prodco Wizz, and 3D specialists NKI (who created this comic treat for Renault) are back with more brilliant CG character work – this time for French ethical egg producer Poulehouse. [Watch]
Milan motion studio Ditroit promoed the Digital Design Days 2019 festival in their home town with this elegant CG experiment which they say “represents the contamination of ideas through creativity.” [Watch]
Dutch fractal artist Julius Horsthuis’ describes his latest opus as “extremely noisy and incredibly vague,” but the resulting clip is a taut and haunting abstraction that feels like a WIP for the opening titles of a very dark TV series. [Watch]
Director Nina Gantz and the Blinkink crew team with acclaimed puppeteer Josie Corben (Isle of Dogs) on this dreamlike stop-motion fantasy to launch a new range of fashion and accessories from Spanish luxury brand LOEWE. [Watch]
After a stellar festival run (150 selections and 46 awards), directors Leo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert, and Oscar Malet unveil their CG comedy about a back-country ski rescue gone very, very wrong. [Watch]
“It was a great experience thinking about where not to use VFX,” says Framestore VFX super Jordi Bares about this breakout work for The Wall Street Journal created on a short timeline with MJZ director Juan Cabral thru The&Partnership. [Watch]
If you’re a fan of code-driven visuals then you know about director Raven Kwok and his break out work for Max Cooper’s “Rule 110” music video – which means you’ll want to watch his latest, a twisty and hypnotic bit of minimalist maximalism. [Watch]
UK VFX powerhouse Electric Theatre Collective creates a cast of toys and tchotchkes revealing the hard truth about a family’s home in IKEA’s first Christmas spot courtesy of MJZ director Tom Kuntz and Mother London. [Watch]
Tendril’s elegant and tactile work for Microsoft continues with this film highlighting features of the new UI for Yammer, the company’s enterprise social networking service for communication within organizations. [Watch]
LA’s Elastic studio continues their recent winning streak in the title design major leagues with a fresh direction to open “The Morning Show”, the flagship production on Apple’s new TV+ streaming service. [Watch]
