Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Fabrice Le Nezet and Jules Janaud (aka Mill+ directing collective Bif) launched the Playgrounds Festival 2014 last week with this title sequence reflecting the organizers’ wish “for something experimental, eclectic and artistic.” [Watch]
Looks like LG has the design world firmly in its sites with this curved 34-inch 21:9 monitor packing 3440 x 1440 resolution. The company claims the ultra-wide monitor can replace dual monitor set ups and “allows users to view the screen clearly without distortion at virtually any angle.” [Watch]
A grim puppet master and his ill-fated marionettes provide the backstory for League of Legends “Tales of the Black Mist: The Harrowing” created with careful attention to the character work and obvious delight in the macabre by director Andy Hall, CG super Max Ulichney and the Elastic crew in Santa Monica. [Watch]
I can’t understand a word this gravel-voiced veteran mining canary says or sings but the lighting and rendering are impressive. [Watch]
Gentleman Scholar show off their typographic and multi-media chops with this perfectly-paced clip for HP’s new Sprout 3D-scanning PC thru 180LA. “The vignettes were crafted to conjure both the nostalgia of physical artistry and the exciting possibilities of digital immersion, with the typography acting as a [Watch]
Misters Kwan and Scheinert‘s singular genius for in-your-face-unpredictable-mayhem continues with this new short produced by Pretty Bird and presented by DAZED starring An Interesting Ball, a handful of cosmic-mini-dramadies and some lol VFX. Don’t think. Just watch. [Watch]
Kyle Cooper and his team dare you to look too closely at their opening sequence for FX Network’s “American Horror Story: Freak Show,” a disturbing mix of stop-motion grotesquery, 2D nightmares and live action creep-outs housed in carefully crafted miniature environments and all shot in the Prologue garage in Venice, CA. [Watch]
Geoff Mcfetridge and Champion Graphics (with backing from Blue Oyster Cult) use simple, animated line work to help Patagonia expose the cruelty behind the goose down industry while introducing the company’s move to “100% traceable down.” [Watch]
The line between VFX and live action vanishes in this massive, action-stacked 90-second launch trailer for Activision’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare FPS from Pony Show director Peter Berg and MPC LA thru 72andSunny. [Watch]
Clever combination of motion control and CG from director/CD Michelle Dougherty and the Imaginary Forces crew highlighting Toyota’s hybrid technology and new Fuel Cell Vehicle thru agency DentsuBos.
Take a peek at the shoot and post process below:
London animation prodco Golden Wolf pull Houston Rocket James Harden down the Skullcandy rabbit hole in this gritty new :60 for the brand’s Crusher headphone produced thru Blacklist. [Watch]
Grab a look at the labor behind the 90 VFX shots The Mill created for the recent BBC Music launch spot from Riff Raff director Francois Rousselet and Red Bee Media featuring 26 music stars joining Brian Wilson for a grand version of The Beach Boys’ classic “God Only Knows.” [Watch]
Spanish director/animator/comic artist Juanjo Guarnido, who honed his animation chops at Disney on films like Tarzan, Atlantis and Brother Bear, teams with Paris animation house Fortiche to pound out a deliriously mad new video for “Freak of the Week” from Swedish prog metal artists Freak Kitchen. [Watch]
“Dark, violent and massively ambitious” could describe just about any major 3D game cinematic released in the last couple years but this huge new CG-fest from Platige Image for CD Projekt Red’s Witcher 3 ups the ante a notch or two and is the first to feature a death by, wait for it… crow-to-the-eye! [Watch]
