Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Spanish motion man Albert Oriol animates the work of 36 designers and illustrators (each rendering a letter or number) to create this joyful and vibrant contribution to the sixth edition of the 36 Days of Type project. [Watch]
Detroit motion studio First Fight keep the energy high and visuals fun to nail this walk thru of the finer points of buying and selling sneakers via online resale site StockX. [Watch]
Best known for his anime series including Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, director Shinichiro Watanabe brings his multi-genre style to this stranger-in-a-stranger-land video for LA producer/musician/rapper Flying Lotus. [Watch]
UK child protection charity NSPCC continues their string of heartfelt animated brand films with “Tipping the Scales,” an assured and elegant explainer from London design and animation agency Fred & Eric. [Watch]
Dexton Deboree’s new documentary exploring the history of the Nike Air Jordan 1, called “Unbanned – the Legend of AJ1,” opens with this magnetic sequence from Los York partner and the global creative director Shane Griffin. [Watch]
Munich 3D masters Aixsponza mine classical sculpture motifs for inspiration in their latest promo created direct for Nike Global Football and their Mercurial and Phantom Series boots. [Watch]
German director and digital artist Tobias Gremmler expands on his experimental CG motion capture work with a transcendent interpretation of Björk’s body and face for “Tabula Rasa,” a track off her 2017 release Utopia. [Watch]
Back in 2013, Barcelona VFX house Big Lazy Robot released a dystopian CG jaw-dropper called “Keloid.” Their new film, “The Host of the Heavens,” retains all the merciless technology of that effort while ramping up the sci-fi action. [Watch]
Oscar-nominated stop-motion maven PES (aka Adam Pesapane) uses actual discarded ocean plastic to build the unlucky fish at the center of this spot for Corona and conservation group Parley thru Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam. [Watch]
Alberto Mielgo (aka Pinkman), who recently directed the spectacular “Witness” episode of Love, Sex, and Robots on Netflix, burst onto the Stash radar back in 2010 with three short films and ended up on the cover of Stash 66. [Watch]
The animation crew at The Line in East London help director Wesley Louis explore his family’s Caribbean roots in a rollicking sci-fi adventure centered on Connie, a young British girl, and a mysterious giant robot. [Watch]
Join Tokyo filmmaker Hiroshi Kondo as he transforms the scooter stampedes of Taipei into a hypnotic journey into the fluid energy and hidden patterns of modern life in Taiwan. [Watch]
Takashi Murakami, the multidisciplinary artist best known for his superflat work, casts American singer/songwriter and teen phenom Billie Eilish as an anime majokko (magical girl/princess) in “You Should See Me in a Crown.” [Watch]
Director Gabriel Nobrega and the Lobo crew conjure a mix of stop-motion, miniature sets, and CG to flip a fairytale into a riches-to-rags romp while highlighting benefits of the backup camera on the Vauxhall Astra. [Watch]
