Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
French director/animator Julien Leconte updates the classic man-and-his-dog narrative by moving it to a homestead in space, adding a horde of ominous tentacle creatures, then animating it all with heart, humor, and fine attention to craft. [Watch]
Director/animators Valère Amirault and Lili Des Bellons shatter the convention of rendering future dystopias in depressing tones in this vivid and dynamic CG sci-fi/fantasy for “5th Season” by French artists La Fine Equipe and Fakear. [Watch]
Here’s your inspiration break for the day: a two-minute preview of STASH 137 – the latest compilation of 31 energizing motion design, animation, and VFX projects inducted into the Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
This enchanting parade of eccentric characters opened the 2019 edition of the wildly popular Blend Fest motion conference on September 20 courtesy of Detroit animation/illustration studio Gunner and friends. [Watch]
After 185 festival screenings and 49 awards, this action/thriller CG short called “Overrun” – directed and animated by a team of six students at French animation school Supinfocom RUBIKA – is now available for your viewing pleasure. [Watch]
A recent graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, Daniel Stankler applies his frame by frame technique and bold animation style to explore the love/sex dichotomy in modern relationships for The School Of Life. [Watch]
A gingerbread fairy tale goes wonderfully sideways in this breakout trailer for the latest release of Magic: The Gathering trading cards created by Axis Studios and crammed full of obsessive details and meticulous lighting. [Watch]
Director/writer Jamaal Bradley and co-writer/lead story artist Michael Yates based this emotional CG short about two brothers and their “battle over the future of the family… and the fate of generations” on true events. [Watch]
Designed and animated by 3D artist Lucas Camargo (aka UntitledArmy), FCB Brasil’s new campaign for the 2019 Brazilian Creative Club Festival urges ad folk to avoid comfortable solutions in the creative process. [Watch]
Young French directing collective MegaComputeur specialize in mining comedy from the depths of human weakness and translating it into CG mayhem. Happily, their new personal project “Plaisir Sucré” continues that tradition. [Watch]
The first edition of the OFFF festival in Kyiv, Ukraine opened in grand style last Friday with this formidable CG stunner full of enigmatic space travel visuals from hometown motion duo Eugene Pylinsky and Eugene Lekh. [Watch]
Director/animator Elyse Kelly’s latest visual story for The Atlantic wraps the issue of how social media companies handle censorship and free speech in a wonderfully fluid and allegorical style. [Watch]
London 3D artist and motion designer Peter Tomaszewicz follows up his striking 2018 film “Silent Aesthetics” with a more vibrant collaboration called “The Woven Exhibitionist” with designer Martina Spetlova at sustainable fashion brand MWoven. [Watch]
The animation directing team Illogic broke wide in 2017 with their extraordinary (and Oscar-nominated) CG grad film “Garden Party.” Their follow up project “Maestro” expands the cast beyond amphibians but retains all the craft and careful detail of their debut. [Watch]
