Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Stash 122 does what every Stash issue does, it keeps subscribers inspired by adding another 31 amazing films to the Stash Permanent Collection, the planet’s largest online video library of design, animation, and VFX.
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Brooklyn’s Sander van Dijk is a motion renaissance man: designer, director, writer, teacher, speaker, festival co-founder, and builder of After Effects workflow tools.
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In his latest animated short, “Wednesday with Goddard,” Nexus designer/director Nicolas Ménard pairs realistic pencil illustrations by his wife Manshen Lo with his own simple, geometric characters and compositions. [Watch]
I’ve been a fan of School of Life founder Alain de Botton’s brand of pop philosophy (and calm, erudite voice overs) for years, but this newest film rings so true I want to hug him. [Watch]
In their ongoing attempt to convince the world they’re just good corporate citizens, randy entertainment colossus Pornhub just released this film explaining how you can help save giant pandas by getting them in the mood for love. [Watch]
The romantification of the European home improvement business continues with this captivating odyssey of a young couple adrift in their clapboard fixer-upper. [Watch]
Maintaining visual and narrative interest for a three minute music video can be hard enough. And it certainly gets tougher when you restrict yourself to a few pins, a roll of paper, red thread, and a glacial camera move. [Watch]
Over the past eight years, ECD Orion Tait and the Buck crew have wrapped and layered paint chips into a dozen hyper-chromatic spots for US paint giant Sherwin-Williams. [Watch]
PromaxBDA’s annual conference in Amsterdam kicked open the doors Mar 13 with this rousing piece of title-happy insanity from the hometown motion crew at DutchToast. [Watch]
The sad state of internet browsing gets a thorough airing in this snappy explainer from Minneapolis creative agency Humdinger & Sons for Brave, the new browser from Brendan Eich, aka Javascript inventor and Mozilla co-founder. [Watch]
UK acoustic guitar virtuoso Kev Minney comes to life as a dreamy rocketman in this animated interpretation of “Dark Stars” by London director, animator and motion designer Rich Hinchcliffe. [Watch]
UK mathematician turned champion slam poet Harry Baker provides the word flow behind this otherworldly spot created by Assembly in Auckland for New Zealand diary giant Anchor. [Watch]
Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan made his observations about electronic media in the ’60s but they seem more prophetic than ever in this short by Brooklyn’s Daniel Savage for The Listening Post, Al Jazeera’s weekly program examining world media. [Watch]
I’m not sure how or why we’re supposed to identify with or even remotely respect this Ghost Recon dude but the lighting, atmosphere, and tattoo design in this new CG trailer sure are sweet. [Watch]
