Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Twenty three seconds of 3D character freshness called “Dino Tennis” from character specialists Monkey Tennis Animation Studio, aka director/3D artist Mikkel Okholm, character designer/art director Frederik Storm, and writer/director/3D artist David Crisp. [Watch]
Behold, the making of the planet’s first interactive 360° mockumentary, a silly/surreal experience called “The Future of Music” written and directed by London-designer-turned-director Greg Barth for Belgian online electronic music platform Hello Play!. [Watch]
Extraordinary new in-house animated short from Nerdo creative studio in Turin, Italy – a free and fluid interpretation of the poem “Beer,” one of many insightful and frightful odes to alcohol by Charles Bukowski. [Watch]
London design studio Art&Graft step up with a 30-second blast of 3D abstraction and typography for the animated title sequence fronting AMV BBDO’s new creative showcase event titled Gunpowder, a curated screening of work across music videos, content, experiential and short films. [Watch]
Blinkink director Greg Barth corals the 3D printing talents of the master modelers at Propshop and the VFX chops of Framestore for a series of complex stop-motion/CG spots for Lenovo’s ‘Goodweird’ campaign thru agency MullenLowe. [Watch]
Paris strategic creative studio Movement adds to the vault of intriguing work they’ve created for French public television network France 5 with this mesmerizing graphic ID called “Civilizations.” [Watch]
The latest exceptional video for The School Of Life applies Alain De Botton’s bottomless wisdom to the under-appreciated emotion of envy, it’s purpose, and why we evolved it in the first place. All wonderfully packaged in the illustration and motion stylings of RCA grads Lara Lee and Hannah Jacobs. [Watch]
The Topix crew and Juniper Park/TBWA help international nonprofit Project Consent “combat sexual assault and rape culture” with three fun and controversial spots featuring talking CG private bits. [Watch]
Just when we zoetrope fans were despairing as to when the next hypnotic spinning confection would land, Sixty40 director Simon Robson sends us this feel-good, CG-disguised-as-cake spot (with 3D by Heckler), part of a three-spot campaign produced thru Sydney agency JOY. [Watch]
Greg Hahn and the crew from NY design studio Gretel strip away all the tropes and artifice of modern broadcast branding for the launch of VICELAND “the most notorious and innovative youth media brand in the world.” [Watch]
For many animation fans, Nexus director Conor Finnegan stole the show on Oscar night with this CG and live action ode to unexpected friendship for Android’s “Better together. Not the same.” campaign through Droga5 called “Rock, Paper, Scissors.” [Watch]
Stash is excited to present the online premiere of “Jailbreak,” House Special director Aaron Sorenson’s light-hearted, stop-motion wink to German Expressionism. Photographed in rich black and white, the ambitious in-house film follows the studio’s wildly successful 2015 CG short “Tale of Momentum & Inertia.” [Watch]
Title design luminary Danny Yount reveals his personal take on film and TV title design with revealing insights and inspirational anecdotes from his days at Digital Kitchen and Prologue. [Watch]
Elastic director Patrick Clair describes his opening titles for the new BBC/AMC co-production The Night Manager as, “A visual collision of exquisite luxury and industrialized violence. Aesthetics, destruction, death, wealth and economics intermix.” [Watch]
