Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Mighty Nice (the Sydney studio led by the former head of 3D at Nexus, Darren Price) elevates the brand narrative genre with this gentle, golden-hued tale for social media management platform Sprinklr. [Watch]
First-time directors James Allen and Mike Skrgatic at East London’s Time Based Arts combine a full compliment of their studio’s VFX, animation, and illustration talents into this spectacular 90-second opus for Honda thru Wieden+Kennedy. [Watch]
Join Blinkink director Noah Harris and veteran stop frame animator Andy Biddle as they turn seemingly random flea market finds into a series of playful and charming films for record label Village Green. [Watch]
Have a look at how Amsterdam studio Onesize created the graphics package for the fourth and final season of the FX hit series “The Strain” in collaboration with Berlin-based artist Susi Sie. [Watch]
London studio Feed Me Light says they “had a blast capturing all the horrifying characters you encounter in the world of online dating” in this witty and revealing clip for UK start-up TrueView. [Watch]
LUMBRE, the Buenos Aires animation and design studio, take their talent for attention-grabbing and intensely detailed CG broadcast work into a bold new graphic direction for TyC Sports. [Watch]
Nominated for an Oscar in 2015 and screened at over 200 festivals, “A Single Life” from Dutch directing trio (and Stash faves) Job, Joris & Marieke is the first time travel story that might actually make sense. [Watch]
Sao Paulo designer/director Daniel Bruson, who directed the powerful NSPCC “Pete’s Story” spot last year, changes gears completely in this frenetic Basquiat-flavored video for Brazilian power punk trio The Biggs. [Watch]
The Mercedes-Benz X-Class (aka the world’s first luxury pick-up truck) makes a sneak appearance ahead of it’s official launch on July 18 in this all-CG teaser from Sehsucht and Important Looking Pirates. [Watch]
The creative crew at Morphika inject classic retro-future imagery with shiny new fun in this teaser for the Full Stack developer’s conference taking place this September in Barcelona. [Watch]
The racial stereotypes perpetuated by animated shorts from Disney, Fleischer, Warner Bros. and others in the 1930s-40s take on a somber new power in this JAY-Z video designed and animated by The Mill with Titmouse handling character animation. [Watch]
“The Shark In The Park” reveals the freakishly devious and ultimately carnivorous behavior of the Parco Pistris, an otherwise innocent-looking strawberry species discovered by The Korean Strange Plant Research Institute in 2016. [Watch]
Taking a poke at self-important design awards and holier-than-thou organic foodies, Nissin and their agency Dentsu flaunt the 10-millimeter cubes of pale mystery meat found in their Chili Tomato instant pot noodles. [Watch]
Five students at Gobelins School in Paris make a strong case for switching to decaf (and the single life) in “Morning Coffee,” their Master of Arts in Character Animation project. [Watch]
