Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
The first real tear-streamer of the 2018 holiday ad season, Macy’s “Space Station” combines the humanist touch of Epoch Films director Martin De Thurah with cinematic space shots and zero gravity VFX from rising NYC studio Blacksmith. [Watch]
Strong design and illustration from Beakus director Amaël Isnard elevates this explainer for the Influence Film Club, an online platform based in Sweden inspiring “more people to watch documentary films and have meaningful conversations about them.” [Watch]
Rising UK animation and illustration duo Uncle Ginger (aka Hugh Cowling and Owen Gent) bring a gentle, hand-drawn minimalism to this music video for “The Last Day” by British singer-songwriter Luke Sital-Singh. [Watch]
The UNHIDE digital design conference opened this week in São Paulo, Brazil with these spectacular panoramic titles entitled “The Dream of Ink” by director Rafael Vallaperde and Lightfarm Studios in Rio de Janeiro. [Watch]
The latest film in the insightful and beautifully rendered New York Times’ Conception series arrives via the considerable illustration and animation talents of director Lara Lee in London. [Watch]
After a year of accolades on the festival circuit, young Swiss illustrator/animator Kilian Vilim’s stark and macabre (yet somehow charming) graduation film “OOZE” is now available for your viewing enjoyment. [Watch]
Writer/director Fausto Montanari and the crew at Lobster Studio in Sofia, Bulgaria, share a few animated thoughts on the subjectivity of weirdness and how we should rethink it as diversity instead. [Watch]
In 2017, Ben Collier-Marsh (CD at WeCanMake in London) dropped the richly layered “Wide Open Sky” video for his friend and Brooklyn musician Sami Fitz. Their newest collaboration is called “Dead Birds,” and the results are just as intriguing. [Watch]
Barcelona director/animator David Pocull: “‘Dads’ is an autobiographical short film filled with personal experiences with my two sons, it’s a fatherhood celebration. [Watch]
Elastic director Duncan Elms’ latest main title sequence sets a macabre and enigmatic tone for season two of Amazon’s critically acclaimed anthology series “Lore.” [Watch]
A sweet story based on the real-life experience of a retired and recently widowed former Russian cosmonaut staying at a Ritz-Carlton resort in China, directed by Le Cube thru Final Frontier for Saatchi & Saatchi and Team One. [Watch]
Animator Henning Lederer is back with a third mesmerizing ode to modernist book design, reimagining 66 more covers as minimalist and op-art motion compositions anchored by austere Swiss typography. [Watch]
Nashville director/animator Allen Laseter interprets a real (and wonderfully surreal) voicemail left for the Lagunitas Brewing Company by a very appreciative customer named Special K. [Watch]
French e-commerce site Cdiscount celebrates 20 years online with a trio of CG spots via Eddy directing collective Boddicker with Paris studio Brunch handling the 3D animation duties. [Watch]
