Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Like they did for their Moscow Coat of Arms project, Russian animation studio Petrick united a cast of illustration and animation talent to craft this brand film/music video to launch Yandex.Music’s non-profit label Birds Records. [Watch]
In Pedro Allevato’s stark and personal new animated short film “Dark Room”, the discovery of a roll of old film triggers a young man’s reflection on past relationships as the ghost of his ex-girlfriend returns to haunt him. [Watch]
The latest Ubisoft work from Mikros MPC for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a feature-level, five-minute live-action thriller (packing 80 VFX shots plus three more in full CG) in collaboration with Frenzy director Vellas and DOP Khalid Mohtaseb. [Watch]
Directed by Brazilian animators Pedro Conti and Fernando Peque (alumni of Disney’s Moana and multiple DreamWorks projects), the video for “In My Heart” by American singer-songwriter Ron Artis II is a feel-good ode to making deeper connections. [Watch]
Nexus director (and PostPanic founder/CD) Mischa Rozema makes it rain for Sony Interactive’s PlayStation Now cloud gaming subscription service in this action blockbuster spot thru adam&eveDDB in London. [Watch]
For their latest animated commercial for ASN Bank thru Amsterdam agency Selmore, the Ambassadors crew mix miniature sets and CG characters to make a serious (and timely) point about how the bank refuses to deal with shady regimes. [Watch]
Danish director Mads Broni, who hit the Stash radar in late 2017 with his atmospheric animated short “7th Aeon”, ramps up the sci-fi thriller action here in new work for Respawn’s Apex Legends thru Passion Pictures. [Watch]
The School of Motion crew recently interviewed 1,000+ working motion designers from 95 countries to “identify and dissect key trends” in the industry including income differences based on gender, experience, education, and employment type. [Watch]
London digital agency Waste and its new design and animation studio This Thing of Ours created the base animation for this rollicking Brawl Stars spot then invited the Reddit community to have at it. [Watch]
Toronto video artist Nick DenBoer smears his talent for the silly and surreal all over these titles for the Playgrounds the Art Department festival in The Netherlands, creating both the CG and the music. [Watch]
Director Kenneth Kegley and the crew at Current in LA team with fashion label Art Comes First to push the Mexican folk sculptures of fantasy/mythical creatures called Alebrijes into new and darker territory for Mezcal El Silencio. [Watch]
CDs Milton Gonzalez, Valeria Moreiro, and their NotReal motion crew in Buenos Aires help escalate the enterprise cloud computing wars with this snappy and confident volley for IBM’s offering. [Watch]
Almir Nago, a Paris-based art director, motion designer, and member of the eka.studio collective, takes us into a glitchy, enigmatic, and unpredictable virtual world via his new passion project called “Press Enter.” [Watch]
Creative director Gareth O’Brien and the Buck crew build a compelling case for the power of Google’s Cloud services by turning a client testimonial and dry facts into an abstracted and surprisingly emotional brand film. [Watch]
