Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
The newly unified Paris studios of MPC Advertising and Mikros handle the feathery creature craft in this cheeky and hard-to-ignore full-CG spot directed by FutureDeluxe for UK mortgage brokers L&C thru agency Fold7. [Watch]
London illustrator/animator Rosanna Wan supplies the disarmingly innocent visual style in this film for The School of Life’s alternative to superficial dating apps. [Watch]
Director Spike Jonze, who won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for “Her” in 2014, seems the obvious choice for this four-minute dazzler featuring another female-voiced AI who helps cheer up FKA Twigs. [Watch]
Japanese artist/director ShiShi Yamazaki brings her hand-painted rotoscope magic to a dynamic new spot for Chanel’s Gabrielle bag starring British model/actress/phenom Cara Delevingne. [Watch]
Tic Motion, a Beirut-based collective of designers and animators, create an undulating, enigmatic, and ultimately entrancing music video for Kuwaiti singer/songwriter Tamara Qaddoumi. [Watch]
Phil Guthrie, creative director at Two Fresh Creative in LA: “We’ve been getting more involved in the E-Sports world and we love creating explainer videos, as they can have a lot of creative freedom attached. So this is our take on both subjects. [Watch]
Danish designer Verner Panton’s 1971 classic Panthella lamp got a vibrant update in 2017 with the help of a stunning launch film by Frame in Copenhagen. Now, with the release of a chrome version, Frame are back. [Watch]
You won’t find much info online about directing collective Klub Simon because they all worked together for the first time on this dazzling exquisite corpse-style video for “Origami” by French electro artist Rone. [Watch]
Barcelona design and motion studio Makmac animate a striking and sculptural CG promo for the fifth edition of the Lapsus Festival, an avant-garde electronic music event taking place in their hometown in early April. [Watch]
Relaxed and refreshing take on the explainer video written and animated by New York design house Delcan & Company for Scrapp, a free collaboration and document mark up app for iOS. [Watch]
Carlos Cortés, an in-house director at Glassworks in Barcelona, just released this spell-binding look at dualism and renewal with help from Khepri, the mythological Egyptian god-beetle who embodies eternal life and constant transformation. [Watch]
French director/animator/illustrator Paul Cabon explores the truth and consequences of his genetically predestined hair loss and concludes: “Being a bald man sucks. Knowing you’ll become one is worse.” [Watch]
We helped our friends at The Telly Awards update their categories this year to include more recognition for Motion Design, Animation, and Visual Effects. Deadline is Friday, March 2nd, so get a move on! [Watch]
Montreal animation house SHED show off their CG creature craft and obsessive attention to both creative and technical details in this :30 for one of Canada’s national lotteries created through DDB Vancouver. [Watch]
