Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
In this video for “Whodat” by New Orleans band Nola is Calling, French graphic designer/illustrator/director Fanelie Muselier uses a loose and low-fi marker technique to slip between pure abstraction and rotoscoped footage of the band’s hometown. [Watch]
In 2018, FX Networks intro’d their Mayans MC drama series with a testosterone-fueled CG promo we featured in Stash 130. For season 2, the crew at FX Design extends the signature chrome aesthetic and ups the danger with a lethal pair of serpents. [Watch]
Michele Durazzi’s d-Arkroom project started during his days in the architecture department of the University of Florence and has evolved into a portfolio of surreal CG experiments in illustration and animation. [Watch]
Following a stunt-heavy shoot in Argentina, The Mill VFX team created fully-CG environments, sky and water effects, plus the shark for Mountain Dew’s latest spot in the Green Means Go campaign thru BBDO Guerrero. [Watch]
Amsterdam director Jamille van Wijngaarden makes the move from live-action to animation with “Catastrophe,” her perfectly paced and carefully blocked twist on Sylvester and Tweetie – a two-minute ode to innocent characters making things worse. [Watch]
Alfred Imageworks in Seoul, South Korea, unleashes a rampaging CG game trailer directed and edited by Yoon Hyunho for the Netmarble game based on Nakaba Suzuki’s fantasy manga series The Seven Deadly Sins. [Watch]
Supply & Demand’s David Holm takes on the animation, design, and editing in addition to his directing duties on this electric :60 starring golf phenom Rory McIlroy for health care company Optum thru Hill Holliday. [Watch]
Mainstream TV ads don’t get more low-key than this study in stop-motion subtlety and dry humor created by director Joseph Mann and the Blinkink animation crew for UK real-estate disruptor Purplebricks and inspired by real customer reviews. [Watch]
Back in 2005 Stash published “Over Time,” a breakout black and white CG short created at a French computer animation school I had never heard of called Supinfocom. Since then, we’ve featured no less than 42 short films from their students. [Watch]
Animation director Daniela Sherer in Tel Aviv animates a musical short commissioned for the Adult Swim Smalls series powered by a bitter (yet catchy) little ditty written by David Hughes and performed by Christopher Arrison and Mason Brown. [Watch]
The CG creature crew at Framestore reteam with Rattling Stick director Daniel Kleinman and Arnold Worldwide to create the sophomore adventure for Santander’s porcine hero (watch the first Piggy epic here). [Watch]
From directors Alex Topaller and Daniel Shapiro at Aggresive: “For ‘AI on Intel’ we told five real stories of Intel’s technology in action – from stopping poaching in Africa to powering the world’s first face-controlled wheelchair, in each film we combined tech-inspired CG with cinematic live-action.” [Watch]
Slovenian animator/illustrator Dusan Kastelic’ combines imagery from his own recurring nightmare with a story he’d penned for a comic book years earlier to create a 3D animated mini-masterpiece (and massive festival hit) called “The Box.” [Watch]
Animator/designer Charlie Stewart in London chooses a soft palette, careful compositions, and measured pacing for his animated exploration of “the longevity and limitations of artificial intelligence, and the loneliness of deep space.” [Watch]
