Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
We Are Royale animate a series of five groundbreaking ads designed to expand recruitment for the British Army by directly confronting the concerns of women, gays, Muslims, and those who fear they are too emotional or physically unfit to serve. [Watch]
Sophomore level animation students at Ringling College of Art and Design (class of 2020) team up to “pay tribute to Carl Sagan and spread a message of positivity in such divisive times.” [Watch]
English singer/songwriter/pop phenom Dua Lipa and her crew face off against their doppelgängers in this captivating dance video held together with smooth 2D, 3D, and compositing work by Glassworks. [Watch]
Striking and moody IDs for Epic Drama, Viasat World’s new 24/7 period drama channel, arrive courtesy of creative director Steve Simmonds and the crew at weareseventeen in London. [Watch]
Madrid studio User T38 and director Carlos Salgado impart a rich and somber illustrative style on this touching and hope-filled brand film for Spanish NGO Fundación Secretariado Gitano (Gypsy Secretariat Foundation). [Watch]
Melbourne motion designers Shannon Hoyne and Adam Singer describe their striking and elegant new personal project “Seasons” as a “surreal vision of a dark Japanese winter.” [Watch]
The first video off the new Nightmares on Wax album “Shape The Future” finds RUFFMERCY at the helm, scribbling and slicing his way thru an entrancing and recursive black and white fever dream. [Watch]
Veteran digital artist and conservationist Andy Thomas’ newest series of films called “Visual Sounds of the Amazon” builds on his corpus of intricate particle simulation motion work inspired by nature and technology. [Watch]
The trick of a good short film trailer is to make the viewer ask questions: How does this story end? Who created it? When will it be released? And in the case of “Coyote” – by YK Animation Studio in Bern Switzerland – simply WTF? [Watch]
“Filthy,” the first video off Justin Timberlake’s new album Man of the Woods, showcases a dancing CG robot created by Method Studios from motion and facial performance capture of Timberlake himself. [Watch]
A fluid and vibrant trip thru 2017 with the worlds largest (and most controversial) ride hailing company, “Year With Uber” showcases the character work coming out of design/motion studio Le Cube. [Watch]
French director Thomas Vanz’ second film “INTRA” gives us “a realistic visualization of what a spinning black hole could look like and an aesthetic vision of the white hole theory.” [Watch]
As more digital publishers rush to transform themselves into “video first” companies, the challenge to efficiently and effectively distinguish their content from the competition keeps growing. [Watch]
From the Mill: “Working closely with Havas and directors dom&nic at Outsider, we helped to create “It’s a Wonderful Flight,” the heartwarming sequel to last year’s festive spot for Heathrow Airport. [Watch]
