Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Mikey Please and Dan Ojari (aka Blink directing duo Parabella) hint at the charm and craftsmanship packed into their new stop-motion animated short “Alan the Infinite…” with this quirk-filled trailer. [Watch]
Inspired by the “colors, motifs, and bold attitudes” of period artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Willem de Kooning, UK designer/director David Penn sets the tone for CNN’s six-part docu-series on The Kennedys. [Watch]
São Paulo post house Nash conjures full-on feature-level VFX in this two-minute cinema ad from Saigon director Vellas which updates the 1980s animated cult-hit TV series Dungeons & Dragons. [Watch]
The-Artery celebrated the Eurovision invasion of Israel earlier this month by inviting animators, designers, and illustrators from 17 countries to “visualize what it means for humans and machines to operate as one.” [Watch]
Funny is just not a word I associate with safety advertising so this pair of spots for electric utility Southern California Edison starring a fast-talking, no-nonsense CG squirrel is a welcome change. [Watch]
3D stylists Ditroit in Milan and Yambo Studio in Tel Aviv bring an appropriately glossy all-CG edge to this brand video for high tech beauty brand Hydraink. [Watch]
Team Tumult, a collective of five animators/illustrators/storytellers based in Zurich, take time out from their commissioned work for a light-hearted poke at death and mourning called “Interdimensional Melancholy.” [Watch]
Combining live action, stop motion animation, and VFX is certainly not new but Furlined director Dougal Wilson makes the mix feel fresh as well as fun in this shotgun wedding of Western and preschool movie genres. [Watch]
Sydney director/animator Robertino Zambrano responds to Denice Frohman’s forceful performance of her poem “Accents” with a stark, fevered animation style seemingly scratched into the inky distance. [Watch]
London VFX mavens Time Based Arts and star French directing collective Megaforce (Leo Berne, Clement Gallet, Charles Brisgand and Raphaël Rodriguez) tear apart life on several levels for French fashion brand Lacoste. [Watch]
London VFX and animation crew Coffee & TV shift the tale of Jack & the Beanstalk into reverse with the latest animated spot in Vauxhall’s “Backwards Stories” campaign thru McCann Velocity.
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One of our biggest issues ever, STASH 135 packs two and half hours of new motion brilliance (including behind the scenes features and exclusive interviews) into The Stash Permanent Collection – the planet’s premier online video archive of design, animation, and VFX. [Watch]
NYC art director/animator/illustrator Damien Bastelica channels his first-hand experience of bullying in the workplace (during his first job as an intern in France) into a comedic story of revenge gone wild in “Hell Of A Week.”
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Artist and technologist Amir B Jahanbin powers up his signature low-fi 3D charm for producer/musician and fellow Brooklynite brz on the track “Daylight” which Jahanbin says is all about “The meeting of the sun and the moon.” [Watch]
