Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Arts & Sciences director Michael Illick gives pharma ads a much-deserved poke in this bonkers parody for POM Wonderful featuring a practical dolphin with digital VFX support from Carbon. [Watch]
London illustrator and animation director Joseph Melhuish: “VICE invited me to make three short films documenting stories from behind the scenes of some of their most notorious documentaries.” [Watch]
The 2018 Google I/O conference keynote opened with this immense yet lovable animated film that Nexus director Fx Goby describes as “a story about the power of a community working together to make good things.” [Watch]
Matt Greenwood, animator, motion designer, and creative director at Nice Shoes in Toronto on his new personal project debuted at Pictoplasma 2018: “I made Final_Final with no script or planning. Each day I picked up where I left off and it evolved into a cast of shiny characters.” [Watch]
Lobo director Mateus de Paula Santos illustrates the soul-sucking nature of our screen habit in this film for lilspace, an app that rewards users for unplugging. [Watch]
The intricate, illustrative style perfected by the Tulips and Chimneys studio in Cape Town, South Africa proves a perfect match for Hendrick’s Gin’s eccentric branding. [Watch]
Director/animator Alex Grigg interprets the words of comedian and The Daily Show host Trevor Noah into an intriguing Cubist-flavored film for WeTransfer’s WePresent series.
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World Cup 2018 ad fever begins with this massive spot by RSA director Jake Scott and Manhattan VFX house Blacksmith dispatching beer delivery drones to soccer fans around the planet including Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. [Watch]
Buenos Aires animation masters Le Cube create 210 seconds of intense cel animation to generate over 700 possible storylines in Nike China’s interactive experience called “The Road To HBL.” [Watch]
Beautiful promotional clip for the non-profit Vision Get Wild exhibition and awards happening May 16-18 in Taipei, Taiwan created by hometown motion studio Whitelight. [Watch]
Passion Paris and directors againstallodds spin their special brand of narrative CG magic for French luggage company Delsey in this modern fairytale about a workaholic and his quest for something more than a lost bag. [Watch]
Starting with illustrations by Gabriel Alcala, director Ben Jones and the animation crew at Bento Box in Los Angeles whip up a batch of appropriately hallucinatory visuals for “Genius,” featuring Labrinth, Sia, and Diplo (aka LSD). [Watch]
If Hikari Toriumi’s poignant 4th year Calarts film “Polaris” (about a young polar bear leaving home for the first time ) doesn’t make you tear up, seek help. [Watch]
Director Paulo Garcia and São Paulo animation house Zombie target your heartstrings in this animated story of the challenges faced by a child and her family while fighting cancer “showing there’s no better treatment than love.” [Watch]
