Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
In his third video for UK band The 1975, Partizan director Warren Fu channels a new kind of music apocalypse by packaging the boys inside an LED cube of raging media designed by the band’s creative director Ben Ditto. [Watch]
Inspired by what she describes as Berlin’s DIY dystopian playgrounds, director/animator Kaho Yoshida conjures a very sweet mini-film combining stop-motion, 2D animation, and the city’s “prettiest trash.” [Watch]
The indigenous pride and personal insights of New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, What We Do in the Shadows) elevate this film by Polyester Studio for The Toronto International Film Festival’s new director’s prize. [Watch]
Creative director Jorge R. Canedo E. and Vancouver motion studio Ordinary Folk create visual poetry from a script by writer/CD Julie Rybarczyk to promo Webflow’s upcoming conference about the future of software development. [Watch]
Vienna animation/design studio LWZ teams with 3D house Polymatronic and agency Jung von Matt to interpret the problem of our individual media bubbles in this playful cinema spot for Falter, an Austrian investigative newspaper. [Watch]
Director Michael Lomas and the GRAMM design and animation crew in Melbourne, Australia, elevate this film for the government of Victoria above the rising flood of explainer videos with a charming mix of 2D and 3D animation styles. [Watch]
Paris motion designer Matthieu Braccini recently created 15 tasty GIFs to promote Mcdonalds’ Egg McMuffin for TBWA then assembled all his visual experiments for the project into the planet’s most poetic interpretation of a breakfast sandwich. [Watch]
Fin Design + Effects’ Sydney studio jolts this spot for the updated Adidas Ozweego into the future with CG enhancements surrounding C-pop idol Jackson Yee, Japanese influencer Lala Takahashi, and American music producer Doughboy.
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The Mill VFX team provides the ominous alien invasion backdrop for Hungry Man director Wayne McClammy’s over-the-top story of a young woman’s post-apocalypse priorities in this :60 spot for Jif peanut butter through Publicis, New York. [Watch]
Mexican-Born directing duo Santiago & Mauricio Sierra team with the VFX crew at MPC to unleash an appropriately joyful ode to running comfort in this spot for Nike’s new Joyride shoe, aka “high-tech bean bags for your feet.” [Watch]
The Racecar crew in Oslo elevates outdoor furniture manufacturer Vestre’s Parklets 2.0 modular urban flooring system into an abstract work of art in this whimsical yet informative product film. [Watch]
WeCanMake creative director Ben Collier-Marsh just released the third piece in the rich and enigmatic triptych of music videos he began in 2017 for London based musician Sami Fitz. [Watch]
Paris-based director Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka weaves rotoscoped dancers into a surreal and “tender metaphor of a city and a world, where many love stories remain prohibited because of homophobia, xenophobia and any form of racism.” [Watch]
Midlands CG maestros RealtimeUK will have you picking shredded rubber out of your teeth as they drop you inches from the mayhem of tearing metal and scraping paint in their newest trailer for the Codemasters’ GRID racing franchise. [Watch]
