Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
UK artist/photographer Miles Aldridge teams with Barcelona visionaries Dvein to laser target the most primal areas your brain (as well as your sense of political correctness) in this stunner for Jean-Paul Gaultier with post by Mikros Image and production by Stink Paris thru agency Mlle Noi. [Watch]
Director Pablo Vazquez and his crew at the Blender Institute in Amsterdam are determined to lighten your winter blahs with a snappy slice of 3D character comedy topped with a warm and squishy ending. [Watch]
A tiny upstate New York coffee company is going to Super Bowl 50 with a big league commercial created by an A list production crew including Prettybird director Isaiah Seret and DP Claudio Miranda (Oscar winner for Life of Pi) with feature-level VFX by MPC. [Watch]
Trollbäck teaches Spotify a thing or three about partying with hand-held cameras, greenscreen, hi-con make-up, and bold typography in this ad for Spotify’s new Party app which “curates playlists from Diplo and other DJs.” [Watch]
With a running time of almost 2.5 hours, Stash 115 is guaranteed to overload your inspiration receptors with brilliant design, animation, VFX, and behind-the-scenes features plus exclusive interviews with the talent behind the brilliance. [Watch]
A refreshing 3D twist on the standard 2D animated explainer video via new UK studio One Small Pixel and London motion/design house Mr Kaplin for Ericsson’s Connected Traffic Cloud thru Jack Morton Worldwide. [Watch]
British-Japanese actress, model and ballerina Sonoya Mizuno transforms into a 3D-printed structure inspired by procedural cellular structures in this meticulous video for The Chemical Brothers from Outsider directors Dom & Nic with VFX by The Mill. [Watch]
Powered by Arnold Worldwide’s snappy copy read at lightning-speed, these three smart, stop-motion Solar City spots from Tronco directors Becho Lo Bianco and Mariano Bergara (aka Can Can Club) thru 1stAveMachine, drive home the ridiculous complexity of powering the planet with fossil fuels vs the sun. [Watch]
1stavemachine and Mother London focus attention on the global water crisis with a spectacular spiral zoetrope directed by Tim Brown and 1stave’s resident master of physical magic Bob Partington for the ongoing partnership of Stella Artois and Matt Damon’s Water.org. [Watch]
Merging anime, motion capture and haute couture, this way-over-the-top CG fashion film, directed by legendary Square Enix game designer/director Tetsuya Nomura, casts Final Fantasy heroine Lightning as the star of Louis Vuitton’s Spring 2016 collection. [Watch]
Closet-envy reaches staggering new heights in this intricate and stylish wardrobe fantasy from Riyadh agency Bold and CG specialists Trizz who handled design, animation, color grading, photo shoot, and worked with Cannonball in Barcelona on live action production. [Watch]
The 2016 Berlin Fashion Film Festival (BFFF) launched this week, announcing the preliminary program, speakers and judges for its fifth edition taking over Germany’s capital June 2-3. Deadline for film Submissions: January 31, 2016. [Watch]
Through his education venture Learn Squared, title design phenom Ash Thorp demonstrates how to “craft detailed and thoughtful main title designs” while students “learn the core principles of successful titles, and are challenged to put these concepts to work by creating multiple examples of their own.” [Watch]
Studio AKA director Marc Craste and Blacklist take on the challenge of injecting warmth and emotion into an ad for one of the planet’s humblest of consumer products: sidewalk ice melt. [Watch]
