Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Minivegas‘ fun new ASUS clip featuring working stiff birds of all types extends an idea explored by UK director Ninian Doff back in 2011 for his no-budget Fulton Lights “Staring Out of The Window” music video starring a Rat Pack of crows.
Director Nils Kloth and the Mill+ crew handled everything including the song writing on this three-minute clip for the B&B industry booking system Eviivo. Mill+ EP Luke Colson: “This is probably the most diverse Mill+ Design project we’ve done. The fact that we wrote the lyrics and composed the song, [Watch]
A new PES film is always cause for a smile or six and so it goes with “Submarine Sandwich,” two minutes of pure stop motion PES-ness with help from a sizable crew including DOP Eric Adkins and VFX super Cam Leeburg plus support from 1114 Kickstarter backers and NIKON. [Watch]
The current flood of overly earnest documentary profile films gets a slow poke in both eyes courtesy of Skittles latest silly/surreal adventure directed by Hungry Man Conor Byrne for The Corner Store Films thru BBDO Toronto with The Vanity handling post and Griff Henderson cutting. [Watch]
Spectacular lighting and atmospheric matte paintings in almost every shot help propel the warm and simple narrative of “Home Sweet Home,” the graduation film by Supinfocom Arles students Alejandro Diaz, Pierre Clenet, Romain Mazevet and Stéphane Paccolat. [Watch]
Prolific UK animation duo The Brothers McLeod (Greg and Myles) ensnare musician/engineer/producer friend Tom Angell for another burst of nonsensical overload called Consequences#2, the latest in a series of short films they swear is “based on the old parlor game we used to play with our grandparents. [Watch]
A cautionary holiday tale of well-intentioned but flammable friends from the crew at the Hamburg and Berlin studios of Sehsucht.
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Watch how Toronto design/animation/VFX house The Juggernaut mixes very old-school letterpress techniques with au courant lasers, drones and 3D in this spot highlighting the 10 generations behind the family-owned Dutch Vodka brand Ketel One.
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Building on the sage words of Carl Sagan reading from his 1994 book Pale Blue Dot, Stockholm digital artist and animator Erik Wernquist crafts a spectacular vision of humanity’s possible future in space. All scenes are digital recreations of real places in the Solar System built from photographs and map data where available. [Watch]
Paris 3D/VFX masters Unit Image re-team with French directing collective Andy’s (Dom, Léon, Max and Rémi) for another massive, all-CG, testosterone-fueled trailer for multiplayer racing game The Crew from Ivory Tower and Ubisoft. [Watch]
Refreshing take on the design event title sequence from director Derrick Pitts and the crew at Johannesburg creative agency Monarchy to open PromaxBDA Africa. So many fun/bizarre/random ultra-short bursts of design packed into 70 seconds all held together by the cinematography and surgical edit by Jean-Yves Martin. [Watch]
Powered by Foreigner’s almighty power ballad “I Want To Know What Love Is,” London VFX house Electric Theatre Collective bring the house down with bang-on performances and perfect integration in Freeview “Left Behinds” directed by Rogue Films’ Sam Brown thru Leo Burnett. [Watch]
NYC freelance director/designer/animator Chris Carboni and his crew of two animators weave dozens of feature film couples into a slipstream of “I know that one” moments and clever transitions that demand repeat viewing. Chris Carboni: “The concept was born out of the central theme of the track: [Watch]
Motion designer Sander van Dijk just released a smart and powerful color management tool for After Effects called Ray Dynamic Color, the same tool he uses on projects at Buck like IBM Datagrams and Onward Internet.
Sander van Dijk: “Currently all the colors in your After Effects project live in their own place, even if some elements in your scene have the same color. When you want change or try a different color it’s almost impossible because you have to change each individual color of every element in the project. Imagine if all the elements that share the same color have the ability to be dynamically linked to one color source.”
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