Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Tel Aviv director/animator Shahaf Ram focuses a formative childhood experience on the tennis court into a dream-like video for Isreali trio TATRAN, mixing references from Disney and Banksy to the KKK and a gender-fluid Hitler along the way. [Watch]
A string of diverse and upbeat animation clips from Strange Beast directors and collaborators help get the word out about VOW and the charity’s quest to end child marriage. [Watch]
Partizan director Antoine Bardou-Jacquet and the Framestore VFX crew in London create a mad 60-second rush of coin-operated wonder for UK business lender Funding Circle. [Watch]
UK interiors brand Buster + Punch sell starkly beautiful products (from drawer pulls to motorcycles) and now they have a full CG promo film to match, courtesy of London creative force weareseventeen. [Watch]
Friends Electric director Pete Candeland and the animation crew at parent studio Electric Theatre Collective continue the railway-bound adventures of the Famous Five in a 2D/3D romp around England and Wales. [Watch]
LA prodco/design house Roger and the CG crew at Lunar Animation in the UK weave together an obsessively detailed CG promo for History Channel’s “Mountain Men.” [Watch]
Directors Mike Skrgatica and James Allen at London post/VFX shop Times Based Arts hit the Stash radar hard in summer 2017 with their “Dream Makers” spot for Honda. Now they’re back with this typographic tryst for the Civic. [Watch]
Turns out life was pretty sweet for kids in the stone age according to this new animated charmer from Studio AKA directors Manddy Wyckens and Marc Craste thru BBH for the launch of natural baby food brand NaturNes. [Watch]
Shanghai director/designer Somei continues pushing OPPO’s phone spots into unexpected (and welcome) new territory with this sci-fi-flavored CG opus for the company’s latest flagship model the Find X. [Watch]
Check this wonderfully fluid animated looping pitch work for a recent A$AP Rocky music video plus three more recent clips in a variety of styles from Radio, a production company with studios in London and Cape Town. [Watch]
The increasing complexity of falling domino formations create a riveting metaphor for the problems and promise of Japans’s aging population in this all-CG spot by WOW director Daihei Shibata for the country’s Ministry of Economy. [Watch]
New York designer, animator, and illustrator Gung-Kai Koo takes a whimsical look at the “many interesting shapes formed while we’re posing in our daily life – shapes like numbers.” [Watch]
As part of their Teacher Takeover initiative where American teachers guest-edit news pieces on their failing schools, Guardian US commissioned director George Shelbourn at Mute in London to convey the raw emotion involved. [Watch]
UK brand agency Superunion calls on an array of UK and international studios to rebrand BBC Two and reflect the diversity of its programming with 16 broadcast IDs all anchored by the curve of the numeral 2. [Watch]
