Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Madrid animation and VFX house The Frank Barton Company steps boldly into the CG holiday brand video competition with this carefully crafted heart-warmer for Audi thru DDB Spain. [Watch]
Japanese illustrator/animator Mozuya combines action, mystery, and the pain of a lost sibling in this dream-like CG watercolor world firmly anchored in anime traditions for the track “lost found melody” by Chroma. [Watch]
Chicago prodco Demo Duck donates their talents to bring an urban teen’s poem to life for 826CHI, a hometown non-profit creative writing, tutoring, and publishing center dedicated to amplifying the voices of the city’s youth. [Watch]
London branding studio Bold & Bold head up an emotional project for the UK Alzheimer’s Society designed to help those living with dementia communicate thoughts and ideas they may not be able to talk about openly. [Watch]
Starting with their beautiful brand film for the University of Melbourne in the fall of 2017, Tokyo studio Onesal has quickly made a name for themselves in the competitive high-end of artful CG abstraction. [Watch]
Written, directed, animated, and produced by Anomaly and Unreasonable Studios in London, “O Human Being” tells the tragic tale of Peter, an unlucky human voiced by Richard E. Grant, as the full extent of his Christmas nightmare unfolds. [Watch]
Poker night at the North Pole takes an unexpected turn for Santa in this jolly dark comedy from Passion Animation directing collective MegaComputeur. [Watch]
Director Leigh Whannell’s new sci-fi feature “Upgrade” opens with the first title sequence since François Truffaut’s “Farenheit 451” (1966) to replace all text with VO. The result is both engaging and unsettling. [Watch]
“Metro Exodus,” the third installment in 4A Games’ Metro video game series will release in February 2019 and open with this chilling title sequence sculpted by CD Andy Hall and the Elastic crew. [Watch]
To celebrate their 10th anniversary, Australian animation studio Dirty Puppet conjure a delightful collaboration of staff and friends built on “10 steps, ingredients, and habits that go into baking a cake.” [Watch]
Snappy, vibrant, and insightful explainer for YORA, a new sustainable pet food company based in the UK, by London director/animator Yukai Du via Bliink and Junction Studio. [Watch]
The first of three loose and lovely animated interludes by Matt Smithson of Igor + Valentine (aka Matt Smithson and David Stanfield) from Adam Kahan’s feature doc on jazz giant Buster Williams. [Watch]
Berlin animation and interactive studio schnellebuntebilder created this elegant and hypnotic kinetic installation in the main lobby of the Merck Innovation Center in Darmstadt, Germany. [Watch]
Tokyo studio Onesal is back with more carefully lit CG art in this dramatic one-minute piece for Pause Fest 2019 exploring the “relationship humans have with technology.” [Watch]
