Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
The design and animation team at BUCK continues building on their body of snappy character-driven work for Airbnb with this holiday spot directed with style and a sly wit by Andy Lyon. [Watch]
The NodeFest 2024 motion design event opened yesterday in Melbourne with this syncopated sequence of jazz-fueled typography by creative director Zoe Crocker and the crew at Sydney studio Never Sit Still. [Watch]
Following up their recent music video madness for MILLENNIUM PARADE, the animation crew at Khaki in Tokyo deliver an explosion of anatomical insanity for Japanese video game developer Nagoshi Studio. [Watch]
The latest music video collaboration between creative director Ben Collier-Marsh at WeCanMake in London and singer/songwriter Sami Fitz, provides a whimsical and mesmeric escape based the single “Blue”. [Watch]
French 3D artists Frederic Colin and Florent Bizec, at the invitation of Motion Plus Design, merge their contrasting styles into this pensive branded content project created for festival sponsors Adobe and Maxon. [Watch]
Few studios approach crafting demo/manifesto reels as thoughtfully as the design and motion team at State in LA. Beyond showcasing the work, this latest effort offers a worldview that feels resonant with the industry and the times. [Watch]
Oslo-based design and motion studio Øyedrops nudges forward the software explainer genre with intricate, light-filled visuals in this launch film produced for Norwegian SaaS software maker Kongsberg Digital. [Watch]
Russian studio Dreamlaser, best known for staging large-scale multimedia visuals, turn their talents to smaller screens in this teaser for the 2024 edition of the Pause Awards honoring business excellence in Australia. [Watch]
Art director/CG artist Diego Martinez, based in Montpellier, France, makes his Stash debut with this moody and multi-textured CG spec film for a modern take on the classic Chelsea boot by American CD Matthew Williams. [Watch]
Revolver director Rune Milton re-teams with Copenhagen VFX/post house Chemistry Film for an epic and operatic ode to the wonders of Earth’s history starring a CG chimpanzee voiced by Samoan-born tenor Pene Pati. [Watch]
In this surgical hybrid of live-action and pristine CG, the team at Builders Club in London showcases a $50K+ Hublot watch with a secret ingredient: recycled sports gear from men’s tennis deity Novak Djokovic. [Watch]
As a product category, ceiling microphones may not get your heart racing but in the hands of director/AD Magnus Skogsfjord at Norwegian 3D studio Miror, this Cisco model becomes a discreet objet d’art. [Watch]
India-based Kappiri Studio just stormed onto the Stash radar with this mix of 2D motion, CG, and faux stop motion wrapped into a kinetic spec spot for the Nike x Sacai sneaker by Japanese fashion designer by Chitose Abe. [Watch]
Tokyo-based director and visual artist Takafumi Tsuchiya (aka TAKCOM) merges flinty CG and atmospheric live-action footage into an dramatic product film for venerable Japanese knife and cutlery brand KAI. [Watch]
