Reel of Note: Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Beijing director and motion designer Ligo Zhang created this rich and ambitious CG title sequence as a personal “practice project” for a fictitious TV series adapted from the novel Gravity Globe. [Watch]
American designer, artist, and sculptor Ward Bennett, who designed over 100 chairs and whose body of work The New York Times described as defining “an era,” was born this month in 1917. [Watch]
The Punisher, the latest Marvel character to get his own Netflix series, opens with this shadowy and monochrome exploration of a sniper’s primary tool – from the masters of such things, Patrick Clair and the Elastic crew. [Watch]
The mystery of how supermarket checkout scanners work is finally revealed in this impossibly cute Christmas spot for Swiss supermarket Migros with directors Kyra & Constanin and Passion handling animation duties. [Watch]
Passion directors againstallodds return for another holiday epic stuffed with charming characters engaged in a clear and classic narrative, this time for Swiss department store Manor. [Watch]
Wednesday Studio co-founders Daniela Negrín Ochoa and Iria López in London: “TED-Ed commissioned us to make a video to accompany their lesson about “The Dunning Kruger effect” by Mr David Dunning. [Watch]
A major hit on the festival circuit and winner of Best Student Project at Siggraph, “The Legend Of The Crabe Phare” was created by five talented students at SUPINFOCOM Valenciennes as their graduation film. [Watch]
Former Prologue designer and Dvein co-founder Fernando Domínguez pulls inspiration from Dante´s Divine Comedy for the spectacular opening title sequence for “Muse,” Jaume Balagueró´s new supernatural thriller. [Watch]
Hornet directing team Moth bridges the gap between the Salvation Army’s seasonal Red Kettle street corner stations and the real benefits your donations make in the lives of those less fortunate. [Watch]
Fresh off a successful festival run, “La Nuit Je Danse avec la Mort” (The Night I Danced with Death) is director Vincent Gibaud’s “psychedelic, violent and liberating” look at the consequences of ingesting substances unknown. [Watch]
Two hundred cardboard-clad extras on the streets of Bangkok extended to thousands in seamless VFX from Stockholm studio Swiss International push this Uber ride sharing spot from director Adam Berg nicely over the top. [Watch]
Like some love child born of Devo by way of OK Go, this video for French pop project General Elektriks combines camp performance with complex production magic (motion control and ambitious compositing) to deliver a whole lot of fun. [Watch]
London animation studio Moth directs the latest in a series of powerful motion projects commissioned by UK charity NSPCC for Childline, their 24-hour counseling service for children and young adults designed to help raise awareness about teenage suicide. [Watch]
The crew at Johannesburg motion house Birthmark have a blast poking fun at design tropes (and themselves) in this mad stream of deconstructed fun that opened the 2017 PromaxBDA Africa Awards. [Watch]
