Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
I’ll bet dental tech product videos are not what come to mind when you think of visual excitement but the motion crew at Aydream in Seoul saw this project for Korean digital healthcare startup Arcreal in a different light. [Watch]
After a glory-filled rampage thru the festival circuit, Tiny Little Cartoons (aka Eric Paperth and Tyler March) let loose their interplanetary musical comedy about the moon’s quest for a celestial body that appreciates him on adult swim SMALLS. [Watch]
The importance of in-house passion projects for boosting studio skills, moral, and visibility continues to grow exponentially as demonstrated in this dramatic film by the Norway-based design and motion team at Futhark Studios. [Watch]
Finding a muse in his six-year-old daughter, Spanish mixed media specialist Antoni Sendra hand-paints 2,000 printed video frames to create a sweet and heartfelt ode to the magic of childhood and family in his short film “Joana”. [Watch]
Working thru prodco Friend London and agency Publicis Conseil, ManvsMachine takes the director’s chair in this complex mix of live-action and photo-real VFX for the EV reboot of the Renault 5 with post handled by Electric Theatre Collective. [Watch]
London CG specialists Zünc Studio, who we first featured last summer for this SkinCeuticals work, are back with a verdant and tactile product film for British luxury goods brand Smythson introducing a new colorway for the spring 2024 collection. [Watch]
Director Tony Zagoraios and his CG animation team at Yeti Pictures in Athens, Greece, just dropped their latest in-house mini comedy-adventure, and like their previous short film Summertime, it is full of playful details and irreverent attitude. [Watch]
Working with London agency MultiAdaptor, the 3D motion team at someform Studio in Berlin build a versatile branding app designed to empower the in-house team at Google DeepMind to “effortlessly craft 3D imagery in a cohesive visual language.” [Watch]
Exhilarating new in-house work from directors Blvckstance and Nikolay Okolita at Stance studio for Swiss racing brand Suter that demonstrates the power of CG design when motion is restricted almost entirely to the camera and lighting. [Watch]
No stranger to bringing CG excitement to sports brands (see here and here), the motion crew at Bolder Creative in Brighton stitch up a steamy spot for the features and benefits of X-Bionic’s Thermosyphon fabric in this director’s cut. [Watch]
The CLAN Team, a multidisciplinary design collective based in Lisbon, just pounced onto the Stash radar with this frenzied, intricate, and surgically assembled blast of CG motion for Puma’s Velophasis sneakers. [Watch]
3 Body Problem, the Netflix sci-fi series from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss, premiered March 21 with these intricate and enigmatic titles from Patrick Clair and Raoul Marks at Anitbody in Sydney. [Watch]
CDs Bianca Sangalli Moretti and Gianluca Patti, who met at art school in Italy, just dropped us the launch film for their Florence-based animation/illustration studio NORA, an energized flurry of design styles designed to showcase their “desire for discovery”. [Watch]
CD Fernando Marcilla and the team at Madrid motion design studio MonoGrafo, whose versatile talent for title sequences can be witnessed here and here, sets a gritty and menacing tone for the Netflix Spanish crime thriller series Iron Reign. [Watch]
