Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
The Mill VFX team and Oscar-winning director/DP Wally Pfister transform what might have been yet another slick showcase for elite athletes (Misty Copeland, Stephen Curry and Jordan Spieth) into a complex and memorable spot for Under Armour thru Droga5, mobilizing the studio’s skills with Massive software [Watch]
Assembly director Jonny Kofoed and his intrepid team of three animators makes a compelling case for the proposed 24-hour detente between Burger King and McDonalds in peaceoneday.org’s continued campaign to make the world a nicer place. [Watch]
Just outside Boston in Somerville, Massachusetts, Jessica Rosenkrantz, Jesse Louis-Rosenberg and their small team at Nervous System explore the intersection of science, art, and technology – writing code based on processes and patterns found in nature to create art, jewelry, clothes and housewares. [Watch]
Combining his talents for illustration and motion, Ukrainian creative director Stas Santimov creates a singular species of haunting animated comic strip, exploring mysterious characters through macabre looping vignettes. [Watch]
MPC LA take the VFX lead in the latest full-on insanity from hungry man director Wayne McClammy and SF agency Heat for EA Sports’ Madden NFL franchise, a five-minute parody-packed movie trailer starring Dave Franco, Christopher Mintz-Plassethe and NFL playmakers Rob Gronkowski, Julio Jones [Watch]
Delightfully detailed, non-sensical new poster and motion work from Vienna design and animation studio LWZ, called “At Home” from the “Sounds Like” series for Austrian national radio station FM4. [Watch]
Quick shot of classic squash-and-stretchy character love from the Golden Wolf crew for Craig McCracken’s Wander over Yonder series on Disney XD featuring intergalactic optimist Wander, his loyal steed Sylvia, Lord Hater and one his Watchdogs dancin’ to a remix of the show theme by Wevie. [Watch]
Once in a while Monty Python’s segue “and now for something completely different” rings very true in life or in art. Case in point: Project Gooseberry aka “Cosmos Laundromat,” the sixth film from open source CG pioneers Blender Institute helmed by French director Mathieu Auvray. [Watch]
Join CDs William Campbell, Will Johnson and the Gentleman Scholar crew for an insightful peek into the creation of their first VR experience, a charming and atmospheric blend of 2D character animation and CG landscapes called “Truffle Pig.”. [Watch]
The Buck crew help Wieden+Kennedy break Nike out of the footwear industry’s recent (and spectacular) CG habit with these two short blasts of extreme 2D action for Hypervenom soccer boots as worn by Brazil’s captain Neymar Jr. and Poland’s captain Robert Lewandowski. [Watch]
Leap forward in time 35 years and join 1stAveMachine director/co-founder Arvind Palep as he follows an NYPD patrol into the bowels of a dangerous and dystopian Manhattan. [Watch]
ManvsMachine (with production help from Neon and audio by David Kamp) conjures a crazed mix of live action and CG for this impossible-to-ignore refresh of ITV2, the naughty sibling of the ITV family aimed at 16-34s. [Watch]
UK brandsmiths Holman + Hunt team with London’s art/tech installation mavens United Visual Artists to create this series of kinetic, highly graphic sport IDs for CANAL+ all in camera and CG-free. [Watch]
Director Mark Lindner at London studio Panoply says the studio’s sleek and fractured new CG opus “Genesis” draws “heavily on a visual currency distilled from the subconscious and the psychology of self [and] dares us to fleetingly glimpse our own origins, our civilization and the known universe.” Audio by Echoic. [Watch]
