Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
A brisk and breezy showcase of 35 characters created by Copenhagen motion design studio ccccccc to help Tinder reveal the top jobs among their estimated 50 million members who get swiped right. [Watch]
To celebrate the release of the MASH Dynamics node in Maya 2018, UK 3D masters Mainframe “set out to create a selection of experimental, dynamic scenes using simple primitive shapes as the base objects.” [Watch]
Royal College of Art student Dan Castro calls “Big Finds A Trumpet,” his charming first-year animation film, “A love letter to 50s design and 80s British children’s TV; a love letter to my childhood.” [Watch]
Snappy, vibrant, and a joy to watch, “Big Buddy Blue” by Zurich motion house Team Tumult is the third film in the Tarp Blanche series commissioned by Swiss bag manufacturers Freitag. [Watch]
Part of an ongoing R&D project at the London studios of 3D boundary-pushers FutureDeluxe, “Colour on Colour” uses live action footage to drive intricate and beautiful procedural CG particle animations. [Watch]
To emphasize the handmade nature of HITOTOKI’s crafting products, Dentsu Japan created a delightful stop-motion clock with each of the 1,440 minutes in a day constructed in real-time during one 24-hour take. [Watch]
If you have any entrepreneurial bones in your body this mini-portrait of MVMT Watches co-founder Jake Kassan, created by Matt Smithson (aka Man vs Magnet) for Shopify, will certainly stir your blood. [Watch]
In 2015 German animator Henning M. Lederer scored a cult hit with his hypnotic animated short “Covers” by infusing 55 mid-century book designs with motion. “More Covers” expands the exercise with 36 additional publications. [Watch]
Oats Studios (Neill Blomkamp’s new experimental filmmaking venture) just released “Kapture: Fluke,” an all-CG short with the look and feel of a 2010 game cinematic powered by what Blomkamp calls “a very macabre sense of humor.” [Watch]
Director Kris Merc teams with CD Daniel Garcia at Yes Boss and the animation team at MEMOMA Estudio to wrap several tasty layers of wit and 2D wizardry around this Atomic Blonde promo for Adult Swim. [Watch]
The Cobb Studio crew in Seoul, South Korea ignore all the tired tropes that dog TV drama and bust out a cast of geo-minimalist characters in these effervescent on-air brand IDs for SkyDrama. [Watch]
The Framestore Film team in London and Integrated Advertising team in Los Angeles extend the studio’s big screen experience with the Hulk into director Jonathan Gurvit’s slammin’ new “Renault KWID” spot. [Watch]
UK designer/director Chris Hopewell (Radiohead’s “Burn the Witch”) brings his talents for carefully lit and obsessively detailed stop motion to this video for former Fleet Fox, Father John Misty. [Watch]
UK branding heavyweights DixonBaxi just unveiled their work for Eurosport’s coverage of the Olympics for the next eight years, a massive project with guidelines for everything from on-air assets to souvenirs. [Watch]
