Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Mateusz Kozlowski, an animation artist/designer in Gdansk, Poland, creates an appropriately surreal and surprisingly emotional CG dream for a track by Polish electronic artist New Rome (aka Tomasz Bednarczyk). [Watch]
Two years in the making, Hue&Cry’s six-minute passion project “Into The Flame” tracks a strange episode involving a salesman named Floyd and the “surreal and epic chase driving him far from home and potentially out of his mind.” [Watch]
Veteran filmmaker/animator Carlos Baena (whose extensive feature credits include Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and Toy Story 3) based this personal short film on struggles with a dark emotional situation in his own life. [Watch]
Season two of Amazon’s Jack Ryan series premiered November 1 with these main titles, carefully designed to “become a portrait of the main character” by creative director Karin Fong and the Imaginary Forces design crew. [Watch]
Hamlet directors The Sacred Egg (aka Alex Mavor and Ed Kaye) team with the Shanghai crews of MPC and Wieden+Kennedy to create brain-enhanced students and their dreamlike training monastery for HP’s Omen gaming computers. [Watch]
New York studio Art Camp and director Saad Moosajee, who made waves this year with the Spotify-sponsored music video for Mitski “A Pearl”, conjure another blend of 3D and hand-crafted 2D in this moody and magical work for Thom Yorke. [Watch]
Tendril says their new spec project, a 50-second CG tribute to classic anime movies, “was born out of our love for game cinematics and our desire to showcase our strength in character animation.” [Watch]
Animade director/animator Ricard Badia (whose “Robot & The Robots” film we posted back in 2017), just released his latest CG passion project called “Bees,” a charming yellow-on-yellow mix of geometry and minimal character design. [Watch]
My Accomplice director Raphael Levy weaves gritty live-action with the talents of UK animation force Ruffmercy in this scrappy basketball world cup 2019 promo created for sports streaming service DAZN. [Watch]
Directed by Ralph Karam at animation powerhouse Le Cube, this new brand film helps German agency TankTank and their client Followfood raise awareness for sustainable food choices and how those choices impact the planet. [Watch]
Director/DOP Timur Abdulov and the crew at Revolution Studio in Moscow take time out from their commercial work for a fun spec spot featuring pissed off aliens, massive urban destruction, and just enough comedy to carry the whole thing off. [Watch]
In a rare example of a Chinese broadcaster working with international creatives on a rebrand, London’s Art&Graft launch a complete make-over for the kids’ channel of China’s national broadcaster CCTV thru Shanghai prodco Final Frontier. [Watch]
Oslo VFX veterans Gimpville stuff a full range of emotions into the plush star of this spot for airport express train service Flytoget, directed by Harald Zwart at Motion Blur for Norwegian agency Anorak. [Watch]
After meeting at Ecole Emile Cohl in Lyon, animators Gautier Alfirevic and Kevin Rose were invited into the Suparesidency Program at Supamonks in Paris where they directed one of the most visual and visceral short films you’ll see this year. [Watch]
