Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Illogic Studios, the collective of French directors who scored an Oscar nom with their 2016 grad film Garden Party, just released the first teaser for their CG feature film, a buddy comedy adventure called Scavengers. [Watch]
Having wrapped a stellar festival run (including a Jury Award at SXSW and being shortlisted for an Oscar), artist/animator Elizabeth Hobbs has released her eight-minute hand-made surrealist fantasy The Debutante into the wild. [Watch]
Following up on their recent atmospheric CG short film Sooreal, the team at Pulla Studio in Kosovo just sent us their newest in-house motion project Forgotten Boats, a lovingly lit photo-real exercise in peaceful ambience. [Watch]
Playing with your perception and expectations, Brussels-based designer/digital artist Boris Wilmot constructs a tense, slow-building open for director Stephan Castang’s black comedy thriller Vincent Doit Mourir (Vincent Must Die). [Watch]
Drawing on his previous motion experiments, digital artist Ezequiel Pini (aka Six N. Five) and his team conjure a lyrical two-and-a-half minute showcase for Cartier timepieces that premiered at the Watches and Wonders Geneva 2024 event. [Watch]
CG/VFX artist and designer Alejandro Robledo Mejia (aka RMA) – whose title credits include the Super Bowl, and several Marvel properties – packs this opening sequence for the FITC 2024 event with lots of shiny symbolism based on the creative process. [Watch]
DissEmbargo, the UK studio launched earlier this year by CG motion specialists Sebastian Helene and The Dink, elevates the product visuals of Swiss longevity biotech brand Timeline Nutrition with this experimental film. [Watch]
London animator/Illustrator Anita Gill just slipped us her short film Check, a look at OCD, “Expressing feelings of anxiety, urgency and frustration through beautiful, abstract visuals and looping, chaotic sounds.” [Watch]
The latest in-house CG short from Rimantas Lukavicius and his Korb studio, Void of Substance, presents an enigmatic and meticulously rendered meditation on the power of AI – without the use of AI for any of the imagery. [Watch]
Evoking a fully array of tastes and textures, Tavo Ponce and the motion team at TAVO Studio just dropped us the director’s cut of a new full-CG spot for a limited edition Grand Cru beer from Belgian brewer Tripel Karmeliet. [Watch]
Writer/director/illustrator Danny Sangra takes a poke at the creative industrial complex (and makes his Stash debut) with this snappy two-minute animated parable about selling out and selling yourself short. [Watch]
Leveraging an array of motion techniques, CD Will Johnson and the Scholar crew unleash their inner characters in this in-house short film “enhancing behavioral type in literal and metaphorically kinetic ways”. [Watch]
Conjuring a cast of whimsical characters, Brighton studio Form Play stages a series of gently comic vignettes (in the spirit of Saul Bass) for the title sequence of the 2024 Playgrounds, The Art Department festivals in Eindhoven and Berlin. [Watch]
The vibrant austerity of the Haller furniture system, a mid-century classic manufactured by Swiss brand USM, receives an appropriately elegant and minimal treatment in this brand film by the team at FRAME in Copenhagen. [Watch]
