Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Toronto VFX shop The Vanity reteam with Rogue director Mark Zibert in this epic three-minute action-comedy for Walmart Canada in praise of mothers and their underrated superpowers. [Watch]
Mad Ruk director Peter Huang and the crew at Toronto’s Wingman VFX are about to cheer up your day with Huang’s latest music video for Vancouver hip-hop and alternative artist Aaron Hoffman (aka SonReal). [Watch]
“L’Aviatrice,” an extraordinary CG film by five animation Master’s students at ESMA in France, takes us above the clouds and into the emotions of pioneering French pilot Jacqueline Auriol who set five world speed records in the 1950s and 1960s. [Watch]
CalArts animation student Rob Gilliam takes a good-natured snip at the relationship between beards and the fragile male ego in his pointed and perfectly-structured 3rd-year film. [Watch]
To showcase new features included in release 20 of their Cinema 4D software, MAXON gave f°am Studio in Berlin free reign to do what they do best: push CG to it’s most intriguing limits with a touch of wit. [Watch]
This campy/comic adventure by Biscuit Filmworks director Jeff Low with VFX support from The Mill could be reason enough to start a new awards category, let’s call it “Best Urine Leakage Product Reveal.” [Watch]
Director Joe Wright and the Sibling Rivalry crew follow a nocturnal aviary expedition into the rolling hills and rattlesnakes of Simi Valley, CA, in this cinematic brand film for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. [Watch]
The Istanbul trio of director/animator Tiber Ergür, art director Muhammet Altun, and 3D artist Hasan Salih Akan collaborate on an enigmatic personal project full of drama and beautiful light. [Watch]
You have to love the confidence and audacity of brand films that create desire with style instead of explanations. Such is the case with this abstract and austere piece for Bavarian e-bike innovators FAZUA by Hamburg 3D artist Vincent Schwenk. [Watch]
Take a peek at the storymatic and animatic stages behind Le Cube’s latest pop culture out-burst for Cartoon Network Latin America – packed with “enough geeky 90’s culture, video games, and worst-best-movie references to make your heads explode.” [Watch]
Sweet, silly, sad, and ultimately sublime, the culmination of Nikita Diakur’s intriguing and innovative Ugly Project is a 12-minute animated fever dream the director describes as “a broken simulated short film about kindness and coexistence.” [Watch]
Animator/illustrator Nata Metlukh (now based in San Francisco) created her graduation film “Pura Vida” while studying at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn under the mentorship of acclaimed animator Priit Pärn. [Watch]
Three amped-up animated films anchoring the campaign for Nike’s new PhantomVSN soccer boot crafted in concert with Nike’s design team by London’s Golden Wolf who also created in-store visuals. [Watch]
This gripping animated mini-doc details the true story of Bisi Alimi, a former Nigerian TV star who went from “preaching hell fire and damnation” about homosexuality to the first person in his country to come out on national TV. [Watch]
