Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Danish animator Tobias Rud’s surprisingly emotional animated short “Sweetie O’s” follows a lonely middle-aged man as he rediscovers a brand of breakfast cereal that transports him back to the happier days of his childhood. [Watch]
The final season of the FXX comedy series “You’re the Worst” comes wrapped in a sun-baked, LA-centric broadcast package courtesy of Kelly Meador and Daniel Elwing (aka Impactist). [Watch]
Wieden + Kennedy, São Paulo’s new responsible drinking campaign for Skol uses animation to hit hard-partying types with a harder fact – binge drinking and alcohol abuse in general leads to underwhelming sexual performance. [Watch]
Psyop directors Marie Hyon and Marco Spier conjure an array of emotions with tiny, cute, and carefully designed characters in this sweet twist on the classic boy meets girl arc. [Watch]
The wonderfully unpredictable motion designer and animator Takashi Ohashi just dropped this frenetic and whimsical animated station ID for Japanese music channel Space Shower TV. [Watch]
The recent surge in high-end commercial stop-motion projects continues in dramatic form with this ambitious environmental PSA disguised as the trailer for a remake of Kenneth Grahame’s kids’ classic “The Wind in the Willows.” [Watch]
Bristol animation directing duo Hi-Sim (aka Chris Hawkes and Chuen Hung Tsang) explore the whimsical edges of chaos and what happens when carefully planned systems fall apart in this CG video for English rock band Editors. [Watch]
Director and Quixel CEO Teddy Bergsman Lind: “Rebirth is a real-time cinematic produced by harnessing the power of Unreal Engine 4, real-world scans from the Megascans Icelandic collection, and Houdini with photorealistic results rivaling traditional offline renderers. [Watch]
The second season of “American Gods” on STARZ launched this month with 11 neon-laced motion posters created by Los Angeles studio King and Country to showcase key characters from the series. [Watch]
Watch how director Nicolas Ménard and the Nexus crew teamed with model master Andy Gent to craft an obsessively detailed stop-motion journey through the 90-year history of Corona Beer and Mexico. [Watch]
Brooklyn artist, photographer, filmmaker, and Hornet director Andrew Myers describes his new personal project – a collection of quiet, eclectic, and often surreal vignettes – as “sketchbook ambience.” [Watch]
Post Office Studios in Mumbai created this series of five seductive CG films as the anchor of a new integrated brand campaign for Indian multinational Asian Paints called Colour Next ‘19. [Watch]
A stripped down CG treatment by Goodbye Kansas surgically edited to the sparse dynamic’s of a track by UK producer Lapalux provides plenty of visceral punch in this spot for Volvo’s E.V.A. car safety equality initiative. [Watch]
Director Marie Hyon and the Psyop crew offer an assertive new twist on The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe creating “story within a story tableaus of women, to create living portraits embodying the spirit of punk rock.” [Watch]
