Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
First year CalArts Character Animation student Chalky Wong combines prodigious drafting skills, an organic feel for visual storytelling, plus careful attention to the emotional quotient of his characters. [Watch]
The first VR and 360 interactive Google doodle celebrates filmmaking pioneer and VFX innovator Georges Méliès. The project was co-directed by Fx Goby at Nexus Studios and Hélène Leroux at Google. [Watch]
Watch all six installments of Modern Philosophy, a sharp and super-digestible mini series produced by LA entertainment whirlwind Super Deluxe with design and direction by Studio AKA director Eamonn O’Neill. [Watch]
A pair of raucous and irreverent CG promos riffing on the eye-shaped logo of commercial Israeli television channel Reshet 13 for their upcoming launch of the Big Brother franchise. [Watch]
Ash Thorp and rising 3D phenom Zaoeyo collaborate on a tribute to Akira, the classic 1988 anime feature film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. [Watch]
Art&Graft are back with a second helping of well-crafted character silliness for UK mobile provider SMARTY thru Wieden+Kennedy, London. [Watch]
Installed in the departure hall of Terminal 2 at Changi Airport in Singapore, “A Million Times” is a minimalist and mesmerizing 2,200-pound kinetic sculpture created by Stockholm artist collective Humans since 1982. [Watch]
Celebrated documentarian Errol Morris and The Mill VFX crew work with forensic artists to recreate two young men who wonder what their lives would be like today – if they hadn’t been killed in distracted driving accidents. [Watch]
Google Creative Lab and Anyways Creative in London commission nine animators to each create a fun pop vox film based on the real-life experiences of seasoned iPhone users trying out Google’s Pixel 2 phone. [Watch]
LA studio Capacity opened the PromaxGames Summit in San Francisco this week with these ambitious sponsor titles riffing on an open world version of the host city jammed with action and fun. [Watch]
Young Russian studio Superdesigners just arrived on the Stash radar with this submission: the meticulous and austere CG promo for an exhibition of kinetic and op art at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. [Watch]
CalArts Character Animation student Chia-Hsin Lee takes the road less travelled by restricting the lead character of his short film “In an Empty Wood” to the role of narrator. [Watch]
Both striking and surreal, “Hypertrain” was completed by Etienne Kompis and Fela Bellotto as their graduation film while studying 2D-animation together at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland. [Watch]
Weaving together 2D and 3D techniques, Art&Graft in London conjure an inviting and atmospheric illustrative style for Tilal Al Ghaf, a new community-driven property development in Dubai. [Watch]
