Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Oddfellows: “The robots are coming! And by robots we mean nimble, autonomous sidekicks able to carry all the things. [Watch]
Because the blizzard burying New York this morning just isn’t enough snow, let’s dig into the frosty VFX created by The Embassy – in the middle of summer – for this Nissan Rogue spot directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan (The Huntsman: Winter’s War). [Watch]
Danish designer Verner Panton’s iconic Panthella lamp first hit stores in 1971 and now finds playful new life in this spot for the Mini edition, designed and animated by Frame in Copenhagen for venerable lighting manufacturer Louis Poulsen. [Watch]
Frenetic new promo directed by FLINK in Hamburg through Y&R London ties together 39 BBC learning titles across TV, radio, digital and social media platforms into 50 seconds of smiles powered by an adaptation of Tom Lehrer’s 1959 ditty “The Elements.” [Watch]
In post-WWII Paris, rival existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus were also close friends and celebrities. But in 1952 their disparate world views blew up into “the philosophical feud of the century.” [Watch]
“Onryo,” The latest work from enigmatic musician and visual artist denial of service, slides deeper into his signature brand of tech-noir chaos combining reaction-diffusion algorithms and “excruciating rotoscoping.” [Watch]
Felix Sputnik (aka Michael Schlingmann), a multi-award winning German animator/illustrator living in London, shares his deep insights into the challenges of animating four-legged creatures in this charming and easy to follow tutorial. [Watch]
MJZ director Matthijs Van Heijningen and The Mill’s VFX team paste non-stop slapstick abuse all over Melissa McCarthy’s hapless eco-warrior in “Hero’s Journey,” created thru David&Goliath for the KIA Niro and scheduled for Q3 of Super Bowl 51. [Watch]
London design and animation studio Art&Graft infuse Indian children’s TV channel Pogo with primary colors and an irrepressible energy in their quest to establish “the ultimate Indian kids entertainment destination.” [Watch]
Inspired by the rollercoaster peaks and perils of parenthood, London creative director Joe Lovelock creates a typographic homage to the finer moments of child-rearing. [Watch]
New York prodco Dress Code relays the story of rediscovering Sherman, a typeface designed by Frederic Goudy in 1910 and revived by Pentagram in 2016 as the official font of Syracuse University. [Watch]
Riff Raff directing duo Ed Kaye and Alex Mavor (aka The Sacred Egg) team with the MPC VFX crew to nail three weird and wonderful spots to the wall for Mail Chimp thru Droga5. [Watch]
Mill+ directors bif dispatch electro-pop duo Shy Luv and their CG clones “on a provocative and elegant quest for love, as if they were puppets traveling through a surreal landscape.” [Watch]
Rising star director Oscar Hudson strings together 10 actors in 18 rooms with only two long tracking shots, one edit and zero VFX in this music video for the new Bonobo track “No Reason” – designed to give claustrophobics the bends. [Watch]
