Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
In celebration of World Book Day on March 7, 2019, London Studio WeCanMake teams with acclaimed UK author/illustrator Rob Biddulph to create a quirky and charming series of animated bookmark characters. [Watch]
Director Doseok Park and the crew at Alfred Imageworks in Seoul, South Korea, cook up a cavity-inducing, Disney musical-inspired CG promo for Giant Interactive’s mobile gaming phenomenon Battle of Balls. [Watch]
Buenos Aires motion house Buda round up two dozen friends from across South America for a joyous tribute to the local tradition of drinking and sharing a bitter tea made from the yerba mate plant. [Watch]
Italian director, animator, and puppet maker Gianluca Maruotti brings his talent for peculiar and lovable characters to this meticulous stop-motion video for the track “Free to Roam” from Massimo Giangrande’s new album Beauty at Closing Time. [Watch]
Every day during 2018 Italian animator/illustrator/designer Fabio Valesini drew a new character based on something related to that day with the added twist that all the characters fit into a single walk cycle. [Watch]
Four years ago London animation house The Line introduced the world to the “rowdy boy racer, hipster hybrids” Amaro and Walden. Now the cartoon duo is back, selling weed and complaining about their neighborhood’s changing demographics. [Watch]
Dutch-Ghanian director and visual artist Emmanuel Adjei carves out a starkly beautiful spot for the German craft association Das Handwerk – part of a new campaign thru the agency Heimat with extensive VFX and post handled by Storz & Escherich in Berlin. [Watch]
German director/animator Raman Djafari, who burst onto the Stash radar a year ago with his fearless work for FJAAK “Snow,” returns with another vibrant and dream-like music video, this one for Philadelphia’s Vacationer. [Watch]
Join director Jonatan Schwenk for an insightful and comprehensive look into the challenges of combining stop-motion, CG, 2D, and live action into the short film “Sog,” his multi-award winning animated allegory for tolerance and understanding. [Watch]
If you need a break from the speed and greed of the media rush, I recommend watching “Forget Me Not,” a gentle animated short about friendship and letting go rendered in atmospheric 3D by students from The Animation Workshop in Denmark. [Watch]
In an effort to reduce traffic fatalities caused by distracted drivers, Travelers Insurance and TBWA\Chiat\Day New York commissioned a series of animated films imagining unfinished chapters in the lives of actual victims. [Watch]
Mill+ director Andres Eguiguren and The Mill CG crew help HPE make the case for applying blockchain technology to the transportation sector by combining the HPE logo with stylized vehicles from across the industry in this sleek, all-3D spot.
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The latest incarnation of DC’s “Doom Patrol,” a 15-episode web series based on characters created in 1963 by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney, and Bruno Premiani, opens with this archly harrowing series of tableaux created by the Elastic design team. [Watch]
Polar, the Netflix action film directed by Jonas Åkerlund and based on Víctor Santos’ comic series, winds down with this arresting end credit sequence directed by Toronto’s Worship studio and produced by Tendril. [Watch]
