Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Animation studio Nerdo in Turin, Italy weaves a seamless flow of Samurai, Yakuza, koi, horror, and a dragon into the opening for “Far East Festival,” a collection of Asian films running on Italian state broadcaster RAI. [Watch]
Anonymous Content director Grant Singer and The Mill VFX crew keep viewers off kilter by yanking them from one surreal tableau to the next in The Weeknd’s soaring “Call Out My Name.” [Watch]
Creative Director Geoff Bailey and the Alkemy X crew craft a striking and emotional CG plea on the part of the one million animals who die each year from plastic waste in the oceans. [Watch]
This delightful trailer for “One Small Step,” the first project from TAIKO Studios, gives us a charming peek at the story of Luna, a Chinese American girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut [Watch]
On October 1, 1992 Turner Broadcasting launched Cartoon Network primarily as an outlet for their recently purchased Hanna-Barbera library. Over the next 25 years the network nurtured scores of new characters and helped redefine pop culture. [Watch]
Back in Dec/17 Swedish 3D studio Goodbye Kansas intro’d the gaming world to Aiden from the new Starbreeze game “Overkill’s The Walking Dead” in spectacular fashion. Now, as the zombies continue to close in, we meet a new badass named Maya. [Watch]
Ainslie Henderson’s latest film “Stems,” begins with documentary-style insights into the UK writer/director’s design and animation process then evolves into a sweet and playful musical world co-created with composer Poppy Ackroyd. [Watch]
Clara Lehmann and Jonathan Lacocque, cofounders at Coat of Arms: “Some of our favorite folks over at Google Cloud invited us to create an infographic on Artificial Intelligence for their internal team. [Watch]
Up until yesterday, Gen Design Studio (based in Braga, Portugal) had somehow eluded the Stash radar. That glaring oversight ended with the arrival of this precise and pristine CG brand film for Crediflux called “Take Back Control.” [Watch]
Polyester Studio in Toronto apply their ample explainer talents to the launch of BTZ, a new cryptocurrency designed for members of Bunz, the online barter community based in Canada. [Watch]
Nice and Serious in London: “The Association for the Prevention of Torture commissioned us to create an animation to explain that safeguards in the first hours of police custody can prevent torture and convince States of the need for a universal protocol based on non-coercive interviews.” [Watch]
Toronto motion houses Tendril and Worship whisk you into the future of robotic warehouse automation with this intense, scifi-flavored brand film for Norwegian tech company AutoStore.
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UK design director and 3D artist Douglas Bowden (aka Pandayoghurt) creates a series of minimalist and graceful 3D explorations of MAUD’s new mark for Australian broadcaster Foxtel. [Watch]
A raucous and invigorating promo for the sixth edition of The Path Festival of innovation and creativity taking over Sao Paulo, Brazil thus May by director/VFX artist Seb Caudron and his team. [Watch]
