Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Polish CG house Tektura Studio just landed on the Stash radar with this kinetic in-house ode to the classic Sony Walkman, a stylish exercise in rendering and motion that nudges forward the boundaries of 3D brand and product films. [Watch]
Mill+ director Robert Sethi and a battalion of VFX artists at The Mill hammer out a sweeping yet intricately detailed announcement trailer for Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road MMO role-playing game launching June 2024. [Watch]
UK directors Karni Arieli and Saul Freed give Stash readers an exclusive look behind the scenes at Wild Summon, their Oscar-shortlisted and BAFTA-nominated short which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palm d’Or. [Watch]
Crafting a dramatic landscape of quilted illustrations, the motion design team at Aspect captures the poignancy of key moments in director Blitz Bazawule’s feature film musical version of The Color Purple with these end titles. [Watch]
In their latest work for luxury watchmaker Hublot, director Joey Recoskie and the Tendril motion team deconstruct the many striking innovations of the new MP-10, a timepiece with no dial, hands, or oscillating weight. [Watch]
Animating the stories of migrant children, director Gabriela Badillo and her crew at Hola Combo in Mexico reveal the complexity of emotions underlying the US border crisis in this animated documentary for Doctors Without Borders. [Watch]
Kawasaki’s first trip to the Big Game provides the Mill with a high profile showcase for their CG creature and grooming talents as they help Hungry Man directors Dave Laden and Christopher Gruse pay cheeky tribute to a certain 1980s hairstyle. [Watch]
Inspired by the universe of mecha anime, directors John Kim and Yates Holley at Rideview in LA forge a sci-fi automotive adventure in Prototype 72, their full-CG short film “where imagination blurs the lines between reality and fantasy.” [Watch]
Director/designer Joey Camacho (aka Raw & Rendered) takes Stash readers deep into his creative and technical process for crafting spectacular CG films for two very limited edition Tiffany & Co. pieces by designer Jean Schlumberger. [Watch]
Combining CG and an array of AI tools, director Rune Milton assembles a dizzying two-minute journey through time and technology to mark the 40th anniversary of semiconductor industry giant ASML thru agency LePub Amsterdam. [Watch]
The latest CG motion experiment in Panoply’s series of Curiosities, Venn presents a carefully choreographed and lovingly lit interplay of simple geometry and subtle textures creating a satisfying 30-second whole. [Watch]
Nexus director Conor Finnegan, whose talents for avian animation were established back in 2012 with his wonderful Fear of Flying short film (Stash 101), creates a trio of feathery comic spots for Progressive Insurance. [Watch]
Daniel Shapiro and Alex Topaller at Aggressive re-team with their motion co-conspirators at Loop to wrap the most recent global summit for international hedge fund WorldQuant in massive LED walls of impossible-to-ignore design. [Watch]
The character animation team at Polyester in Toronto break out a diverse cast of personalities and multiple production techniques in this snappy film for the University of Regina thru Halifax agency M5. [Watch]
