Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Star Trek: Discovey premiered Sunday night on CBS All Access and opened with Prologue Film’s technical yet beautiful deconstruction of the show’s props, costumes, and character anatomy. [Watch]
Revered Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (The Revenant, The Last Emperor) is inviting filmmakers to compete for cash and glory by interpreting the songs on his latest album Async. [Watch]
According to McDonald’s, 70 percent of their U.S. sales come from drive-thru windows. So how does such a vehicle-dependent restaurant go about embracing a pro-green initiative like World Car Free Day? [Watch]
Director Thierry Poiraud and a massive crew from hot Paris CG/VFX studio Mathematic conjure a fantastical race of flying dragons for French electric utility company EDF thru Havas Paris. [Watch]
The 2017 ANNY Best of Fest is a two day symposium (September 29-30) featuring animation screenings, virtual reality experiences, professional panels, and industry events in the Seaport District of NYC. [Watch]
Massive and intricate feature-level CG work from Paris powerhouse Unit Image in these three game cinematics from Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. [Watch]
New Buenos Aires studio Buda says they created this jovial looping anatomical metaphor called “Glitter” in the hope that creatives everywhere might “stop making the same shit over and over again.” [Watch]
It’s no secret Stash editors are big fans of pristinely rendered abstract 3D motion projects like say… this quick burst of whimsical geometry assembled by Milan/London studio Ditroit for Fendi’s Hypnoshine eyewear. [Watch]
Jerk bosses meet your nemesis, the towering purple-haired monster created by MJZ director Matthijs van Heijningen and The Mill’s New York VFX crew thru agency KBS for Monster.com. [Watch]
Fraser Davidson, co-founder at Cub Studio in London, shares the impossibly charming/sweet/romantic story of meeting, wooing, and sharing life with his diminutive, hungry, and holiday-obsessed wife Vicky. [Watch]
Commissioned by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, “The Unconquered” tells the heroic and little-known story of Poland’s 50-year struggle for independence after invasions by the Nazis and Soviet Russia in 1939. [Watch]
The twisted tale of how the new Foo Fighters album “Concrete and Gold” came to be – as told by Dave Grohl and enhanced by the animation talents at Visual Creatures in LA. [Watch]
Blinkink director Alex Grigg wraps the heartfelt words of Interscope executive Steve Stout in a stark and restrained power in this promo for the Biography Channel documentary ‘Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G’. [Watch]
New animated treat from Edinburgh’s very own Romanian-born director/designer Andrei Staruiala who brought us the various charms of “Scottish Sayings” earlier this year. [Watch]
