Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Emmanuel Lubezki, the only cinematographer to win three consecutive Oscars (Gravity 2013, Birdman 2014, The Revenant 2015) directs a visual stunner for Absolut with Framestore handling post and VFX. [Watch]
David Droga, creative influencer and founder of agency Droga5 suggests, “We really have to think about why the consumer would give a shit about what we do” in this promo for FoST 2017 by Dress Code. [Watch]
A BNP Paribas ATM handles requests from a trio of characters borrowed from the Valerian universe in these spots directed by Luc Besson himself with wonderful animation work by Mikros Image in Paris. [Watch]
Deli Collective and Greenpeace Magazine use dark musical comedy to motivate their fellow Germans to vote for environmental change during the country’s federal election on September 24, 2017. [Watch]
French motion designer Niels Prayer honors Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievitch with an understated but powerful spec title sequence for Pol Cruchten’s 2016 documentary based on her book Voices of Chernobyl. [Watch]
Meet Douglas Eck, a research scientist on Google Brain’s Magenta project teaching computers how to generate their own music, video, images, and text using neural networks and other types of machine learning. [Watch]
Polished classical animation, gentle conflict, and a heart-tugging life lesson separate “Burn Out” from the pack of student films we’ve seen in 2017 and establish Gobelins grad Cécile Carre as a talent to watch. [Watch]
Paris studio Mathematic provide post support as a young heroine (French actress and musician Solene Rigot) rescues her friend from teenage debauchery in the video for Beck’s new single “Up All Night.” [Watch]
Creative producer Rebecca Rice at Mathematic in Paris: “NYCB contacted us to create a unique promo for their production of Swan Lake. The film shows the transformation of the white swan to black through light and the two crowns. [Watch]
Sometimes the making-of film is just as entertaining as the actual film (and sometimes more). Join Anthony Falleroni as he reveals the process behind “Jumpy,” his story of a lovable game avatar who refuses to give up. [Watch]
Alexa Sirbu and Lukas Vojir who both work as motion artists at ManvsMachine in London, team up for a dark and intimate exploration of floral forms in their new personal art film called “flow/er.” [Watch]
Rimantas Lukavicius and the Korb crew continue to build their videography of precise and dramatic CG commercial work from their HQ in Vilnius, Lithuania with this online film for venerable US eyewear makers Smith Optics. [Watch]
UK 2D animator Jack Bennett channels the universal complexities and awkwardness of first love in his newest personal film, the sweet seven-minute tale of a boy named Joe, Lily, several Molly’s… and Spiderman. [Watch]
New York visual magician Andrew Myers translates his talent for vibrant, witty and often surreal editorial and advertising illustrations into a series of calm and curious vignettes in his latest personal work “Moving Parts.” [Watch]
