Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Beautiful and surprisingly emotional experimental film from ANTIVJ artist Xavier Chassaing evoking an impossibly massive yet tightly choreographed site-specific installation piece. A fully-CG film co-produced by Mathematic, “Dry Lights” expands on a physical sound and light installation at the 2013 Proyecta Festival set in the ethnobotanical garden in Oaxaca, Mexico. [Watch]
The fine people behind the esteemed UK awards show D&AD have a gift for you: Ad Filter , a browser extension that blocks annoying pre-roll ads and replaces them with award-winning spots from the D&AD vault. Agency: BETC x BETC Digital. [Watch]
Passion Paris director Jack Antoine Charlot and agency Herezie extend the fun of the “Prejudice” campaign for French financial services provider Cofidis with more snappy animation and great character work. [Watch]
Finally, an inclusive first person shooter – designed for both vegans and all those who mock them mercilessly. The happy carnage of Adult Swim Games’ “Tofu Hunter” comes to you courtesy of the design, character and comedy chops of Atlanta studio Awesome Incorporated. [Watch]
Revealing interview with Emory Douglas, the art director, designer, and main illustrator for The Black Panther newspaper during the 1960s and 1970s. Introduced to graphic design working in the print shop during juvenile detention, Douglas rose to become the Panthers’ Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture [Watch]
An assertive script from Mullen combined with clean and stylish execution from the Royale crew elevates this corporate piece for multinational financial info provider S&P Capital IQ called “The Power to Capitalize” above the fray. [Watch]
Director Romain Borrel and the crew at Cirkus in New Zealand show off their character design/animation skills as well as a preference for extreme cartoon mayhem in “The Butcher,” the second episode of their Jack of All Trades series. [Watch]
Imaginary Forces marks the end of AMC’s Mad Men with an assembly of the many parodies and tributes inspired by their groundbreaking opening sequence which first aired on July 19, 2007 and won the 2008 Emmy Award for Outstanding Title Design. [Watch]
Moments like the one seen above, found in the teaser called “A Night to Remember” for CD PROJEKT’s long-anticipated game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, is why we rank Budapest’s DIGIC Pictures as one of the top three game cinematic studios on the planet. [Watch]
If there’s one thing to learn from Adult Swim IDs it’s never underestimate the power of shock tempered with humor. Case in point: This new batch of idents from Treat Studios in London built around a theme of transformation. [Watch]
UK artist Mat Collishaw teams with fellow Londoner Sebastian Burdon (who handled the 3D modeling and animation) to create a mesmerizing and impossibly detailed 3D-printed zoetrope composed of over 350 character figures plus props and environmental elements. [Watch]
Snappy and detailed look at the production of “Adventure in the City,” a crazy-ambitious stop motion mini-epic created for LEGO China from hundreds of thousands of real LEGO bricks (and a boy in a snake suit) by Dutch director/writer/animator Rogier Wieland and his intrepid crew thru AKQA Shanghai. [Watch]
A blast of intense time-jumping action for your Wednesday morning introducing a new League of Legends champion, Ekko: The Boy Who Shattered Time. Created for RIOT Games by Passion Paris directors Arnaud & Jerome and their long-time collaborator Pascal Charrue (a co-founder of Fortiche Production). [Watch]
Creative Director Dennis Go and the Brand New School crew keep the Oreo fun alive in this newest spot called Oreo “Spark Some Wonder” thru The Martin Agency. [Watch]
