Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Polyester Studio’s insightful new animated content for TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) features the voice of Guillermo Del Toro advocating how in work and in life “we must choose love over fear.” [Watch]
Possibly our most dynamic issue so far, Stash 130 packs in a vast array of motion design, animation, and VFX plus behind-the-scenes features and exclusive interviews. [Watch]
Entertainment and clarity merge perfectly in this vibrant and upbeat :30 from Buck’s Sydney studio introducing the Halo ring for Bankwest which allows you to fist-bump the payment terminal to complete your transaction. [Watch]
Fresh off the festival circuit, Shane Beam’s animated short film “Conditioner” provides a wonderfully strange and floaty kind of escape for a summer Friday afternoon. [Watch]
London motion designer, director, and lecturer Nicola Gastaldi (aka Gasta) merges his talent for GIFs with enigmatic poetry in this graphically striking short film. [Watch]
Meanwhile, back in The Amazing World of Gumball on Cartoon Network, New York 3D artist Julian Glander bestows his signature CG whimsy to this crazed sequence from a season six episode called “The Transformation.” [Watch]
Brooklyn studio MoSoMoS combine their many animation/production talents (including stop motion and motion control) into a delightful promo for NBC’s summer competition series called “Making it” starring Nick Offerman and Amy Poehler. [Watch]
Have a look at how the Mill Design and Emerging Technology teams blurred the borders of motion graphics and design by generating a live title sequence during the 2018 AICP Next Awards. [Watch]
The hard news about demo reels is very few actually accomplish their goal of triggering emotion in viewers. Over the last 14 years Stash has featured only a handful of reels but we believe this new one from LA studio STATE is worth your time. [Watch]
Steve Viola, SVP of Design at FX Networks: “For the launch of our Sons of Anarchy spin-off, Mayans MC, we created a piece introducing the cultural tones of the series while bringing back the intensity and the rawness of Sons of Anarchy. [Watch]
Mill+ directors Aidan Gibbons and Ergin Kuke help UK luxury performance car maker Bentley celebrate its 100th anniversary with a grand look at the company’s history of “innovation, achievement and craftsmanship.” [Watch]
From Buck: “How can you say no to working with 36 x (2560 x 1800) = 165,888,000 pixels of fun?? Teaming up with our friends at Google, we had a blast wrangling pixels for this installation. [Watch]
SCAD Motion Media student Aishwarya Sadasivan describes her animated allegory “Cayona” as “a personal dedication to the wonderful immigrants who have found their happy kingdom – America.” [Watch]
The crew at Gentleman Scholar pay tribute to the 2018 World Cup with this animated in-house project dedicated to “not just the event itself, but also to the unifying nature of this sport in general.” [Watch]
