Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
The Munich edition of the Forward Festival for creativity, design, and communication opened recently with this intense and inky CG sequence from Mill+ director Raj Davsi celebrating those who choose to be the Odd One Out. [Watch]
Lyric music videos often fall into the cheap and lazy bin but Spanish director/animators Magali García and Nacho Velasco inject a full shot of charm into this multi-media tale of an awkward boy and how “someone special makes him feel loved and free.” [Watch]
Creating visuals for an acid trip is the definition of “dream job” for animation types and Toronto’s Polyester Studio takes the opportunity to explore both the light and dark sides of the experience in this clip for the SyFy series Deadly Class. [Watch]
Inspired by the Greek god of time and his association with loss and return, ART+COM Studios in Berlin combines motion design, processing, and AI to create a beautiful and hypnotic kinetic media installation called Chronos XXI. [Watch]
Director Gavin Kelly and the Piranha Bar crew in Dublin reimagine characters from Epic Games’ defunct multiplayer online battle game Paragon into a body switch mockumentary about gamers trapped as their alter egos in the real world. [Watch]
Clara Lehmann, Jonathan Lacocque, and the crew at Coat of Arms partner with Google for Education and a global team of researchers and analysts “to examine evidence-based shifts in classroom education.” [Watch]
Atlanta animation masters Awesome Inc. kickstart Zach Galifinakis’ morning commute in this teaser promo for the fourth season premiere of Baskets on FX. [Watch]
Yes, DC Universe recently canceled its streaming sci-fi series Swamp Thing but we think the show’s wonderfully ominous title sequence, created by CD Aaron Becker and the Filmograph crew in LA, deserves your attention. [Watch]
The all-Swiss duo of animator Michael Frei and game developer Mario von Rickenbach, who released the fabulous and award-winning Plug & Play in 2015, are back with a teaser for more interactive fun called KIDS. [Watch]
Four new compilations of work from UK composer Simon Pyke receive the always-intriguing Universal Everything mocap CG treatment in this promo film designed and directed by longtime collaborator (and sibling) Matt Pyke. [Watch]
Brazilian studios LOBO and Vetor Zero contrast stripped down geometry with intense blasts of color in this impossible-to-ignore broadcast ID system for the Rede Globo television network. [Watch]
Buenos Aires animation studio Le Cube, prodco Final Frontier, and agency R/GA Shanghai reteam (after this Nike project) on a rampaging brand film for China’s Boxing Cat Brewery starring Louis, a pugilistic super-hero of suds.
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Could graphic health warnings on ammunition boxes help reduce gun violence in America? This graphic PSA, with production by Method Studios, poses that question just in time for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on June 7th. [Watch]
French VFX artist Kevin Cordier-Royer weaves live action and CG into a striking and whimsical fashion-first brand film for social coaching consultancy Lorr & Sens. [Watch]
