Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Tokyo CG artist and visual programmer Nobutaka Kitahara creates a fascinating alien world of floating geometric structures in “Flow,” his captivating 60-second 3D short that I wish was many times longer. [Watch]
The TEDx event in China’s port city of Qingdao opened this summer with a rush of layered color and fine detail crafted by the design crew at hometown studio Flatwhite Motion. [Watch]
The New Zealand edition of Semi-Permanent 2018 launched in Auckland this summer with refreshingly light-hearted titles directed by Marc Smith out of MPC Creative in New York with support from the MPC crew in Bangalore. [Watch]
Timed for release with the Tour de France race, the crew at Illo in Turin, Italy designed this jaunty explainer to share some numbers about the growth and importance of cycling experiences among Airbnb members. [Watch]
STATE: “What do you do when you’re given carte-blanche to do whatever the hell you want? We took the money and ran. Specifically, to some seedy back-alleys in Bangkok. Such fun times… [Watch]
Ryan Burke, creative producer at Google’s Creative Lab: “These days we’re consuming more news than ever, and sometimes, it can feel like there are only problems out there. But the fact is, there is a plethora of good news happening. [Watch]
London branding/ad agency Mmmultiply merge their collective paranoia with a brilliant take on lyrics from Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” to create these twitchy and beautifully stylized titles for FOX’s new spy series “Deep State.” [Watch]
Inspired by vinyl toys and afro-futurism, New York director Kristian Mercado enlists Buenos Aires studio DeTuco to conjure a tripped out 2D/3D animated adventure for venerable American hip hop trio De La Soul. [Watch]
IBM’s inaugural Think conference hit Vegas earlier this year complete with this ambitious, flexible, and beautiful branding scheme created by Athletics NYC and foam Studio, the commercial arm of Berlin’s Zeitguised. [Watch]
The maneki-neko, aka the Japanese fortune cat, gets a frenetic overhaul by 26 artists in 26 seconds in this smile-inducing project put together by Moscow animation studio Petrick. [Watch]
In June 2017 Stash published the trailer for “Float,” a brilliant and enigmatic CG fantasy/adventure directed by Kohei Yoshino with music by Haruna Karasuda. Now the duo is back with this fluid and whimsical work for the Japan Media Arts Festival. [Watch]
Animator/programmer Raven Kwok’s talents for generative visuals and processing algorithms prove a perfect compliment for musician/scientist Max Cooper’s track “Rule 110” which attempts “to visualize a Turing-complete machine.” [Watch]
From their base in Vilnius, Lithuania, CG masters Korb continue to create stylish, intriguing, and often witty visuals for an array of international brands, like this latest project highlighting the kinetic talents of Nike’s Zoom KD XI basketball shoe. [Watch]
… Kendrick Lamar & SZA “All The Stars” directed by Dave Meyers and The Little Homies with BUF, the pioneering Paris VFX house with credits on everything from “The Matrix” to “Blade Runner 2049,” handling the digital duties. [Watch]
