Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Anthem, BioWare’s new multiplayer action role-playing game, has had a rough rollout so far but the company and their publishing partners Electronic Arts are betting director Neill Blomkamp can help reset perceptions with this spectacular VFX-laced trailer. [Watch]
Director/animator Eoin Duffy’s minimalist animation stands in stark contrast to English actor Jack Cutmore-Scott’s fraught reading of William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming” in this film commissioned by TED-Ed. [Watch]
The MPC VFX crew conjure an array of evil and existential threats to BMW’s new luxury X7 SAV in this 75-second blockbuster directed by MJZ’s Dante Ariola and inspired by kid’s adventure stories. [Watch]
Nexus director Johnny Kelly lets Stash fans in on the challenges and process behind his new music-driven, puppet-filled brand films for Cheerios produced through 72andSunny. [Watch]
Blur founder Tim Miller (aka the director of Deadpool) and David Fincher, who both tried gallantly to make Eric Powell’s Goon comics into a feature film, have another adult animation treat dropping March 15th on Netflix. [Watch]
For the launch of Respawn Entertainment’s new free-to-play battle royale shooter Apex Legends, Mill+ directors Lisha Tan and David Lawson create a hybrid look they call “Moving Concept Art.” [Watch]
Four students at The Animation Workshop explore an “absurd existential crisis” and the problem of personal originality with an astounding mix of visual styles and animation techniques. [Watch]
Ridley Scott talks about his return to advertising after a 15-year hiatus to direct Hennessy’s four-minute brand film “The Seven Worlds,” produced thru agency DDB Paris with MPC handling the extensive VFX. [Watch]
Tokyo animation director Takashi Ohashi completely redefines the cute dancing cat video in this glitchy and geometric music promo for Japanese producer Daisuke Tanabe. [Watch]
In his first solo helming effort, WIZZ director/animator Gary Levesque (formerly of creative duo Flying V) aims for your Valentine’s day heartstrings in this animated :90 for flower delivery service Teleflora through Blacklist. [Watch]
Siblings Michel and Olivier Gondry co-direct an exuberant dance video for The Chemical Brothers’ “Got To Keep On,” with Olivier’s VFX work growing from peripheral glimpses into the main attraction. [Watch]
A humble street line painter takes traffic problems into his own hands in this film for Bird, the urban scooter unicorn, directed by BAT (Bali Engel and Matthieu Landour) and animated in 2D and 3D by Not To Scale. [Watch]
Depending on how your art/design/media school experience actually went down, Julian Glander’s third indie video game called “Art Sqool” may trigger varying amounts of trauma and/or giddiness. [Watch]
Writer/director Tomek Suwalski and a massive crew at Platige Image summon a menacing CG vision of post-nuclear Russia in the trailer for Metro Exodus, the third installment in 4A Games’ video game series based on the novels of Dmitry Glukhovsky. [Watch]
