Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Working to the powerful lament Letters to the Children of Gaza by American journalist Chris Hedges, CD Ben McFarlane and the animation team at Sunny Vfx in Dubai assemble a passionate, painterly, and ultimately haunting short film. [Watch]
Working with Singapore prodco Six Toes, the CG mavens at Found in London sculpt an elegant and minimalist brand film highlighting the features and finishes of Samsonite’s EVOA-Z carry on and positioning it as a work of art. [Watch]
Italian motion designer Gabriele Calvi, whose animated work ranges from the enigmatic to the effervescent, just dropped us his latest personal project: a jaunty 90-second exercise in complex walk cycles that takes a light look at serious Habits. [Watch]
Futhark Studios, who hit the Stash radar with this CG product film earlier this year, reveals the thinking and process behind the studio’s first passion project, a visceral ode to street racing inspired by memories of a certain 2005 game trailer. [Watch]
CDs Nidia Dias and Miguel Rato lead the Steelworks CG team in a dramatic merger of urban and mountain fashion in this sleek and visually kinetic in-house brand film. [Watch]
The best software explainer films transform the mundane details of everyday tasks into a series of delightful moments, treading a fine line between visual engagement and coherence. Bark&Bite’s new work for Microsoft Planner does just that. [Watch]
The latest chapter in Tonic DNA’s in-house R&D project JUMP just landed and finds the Montreal studio exploring an Unreal engine pipeline and AI tools to further develop the look and motion for their universe-hopping character Leaf. [Watch]
The Ford Mustang GTD supercar (800+ HP, $325,000) made its IRL debut at Le Mans on the weekend with the ManvsMachine crew providing back-up with this supercharged CG glimpse at the most powerful street-legal Mustang ever. [Watch]
Eddy director Clément Soulmagnon, whose wonderful Aurore short film we included in the Best of Stash 2021, transports us to past summers on the Côte d’Azur in this dreamy music video for French band Juniore. [Watch]
Expanding on their 2023 motion experiment After Light, directors Julien Vallée and Eve Duhamel weave together live-action, CG, and a variety of AI tools for The Pulse Within, their short film which premiered at the Tribeca Festival. [Watch]
The geometric fantasy world of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen comes to life with tasteful restraint in this product film for the Huawei Pocket 2 phone that “remaps and redefines the boundaries between technology, art and fashion.” [Watch]
The 2024 edition of the Google Marketing Live event opened with this bright and bubbly mixed-motion sequence lead by Scholar CDs Will Campbell and Juan Carlos Cuadra who set out to “showcase what Google AI can do for you”. [Watch]
Director Kawe de Sá leads the character design and animation team at Roof Studio in Brooklyn on a musical journey into good vibes in this CG-as-claymation spot for New York Blood Center Enterprises thru Miami agency Markham Yard. [Watch]
Poultry-inspired choreography provides the driving force in this wonderfully bizarre KFC spot from Business Club director Vedran Rupic (thru Mother London with VFX and post from Black Kite) asking citizens of the UK to Believe in Chicken. [Watch]
