Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
A team of seven 5th-year students at French digital arts school Piktura unravels a tragic tale of “a heavy secret and oblivious parents” in an artful and ultimately hopeful animated short film called Ferme les Yeux (Close Your Eyes). [Watch]
Vancouver director/animator Henrique Barone heads up a tight team thru Agent Pekka to keep this brand film for shipping software maker Sendcloud light and fresh while hitting all the benefit and feature points of the brief. [Watch]
Given free rein to create the branding and motion assets for CIRCUS, an exclusive new social club in Madrid, the team at TAVO Studio responded with a delightful flourish of rich, intricate, and surreal visuals. [Watch]
In their latest animation for ASN Bank, the crew at Ambassadors in Amsterdam continue to create quirky and compelling characters but update the production pipeline to include fully 3D environments and real-time rendering. [Watch]
Backed up by an orchestral cover of Elton John’s “Rocket Man”, a massive VFX team at The Mill bring director Nicole Ackermann’s sweeping tale of hope and aspiration to life in this game trailer for Bethesda Softworks’ Starfield. [Watch]
In their latest collaboration with Swiss luxury watch brand Hublot, CD Salvatore Giuntathe and the motion crew at Ditroit in Milan embrace their 3D design and rendering OCD and crank the hyper-detail dial up to 11. [Watch]
Canadian illustrator/animator Charlie Gagne (aka Dinos&Teacups) gathers 10 other vegan designers for a collaborative exploration of the personal moments that lead each of them to start living without animal exploitation. [Watch]
Working with director David Ayer (Training Day, Suicide Squad), the Filmograph motion team opens action feature The Beekeeper with a tense tapestry of antique engravings, macro photography, CG, and an infinity of hexagons. [Watch]
Buenos Aires director/designer Juan Andrés Molteno (aka Molten) brings a fresh and engaging mix of 3D style and 2D motion graphics to this snappy explainer for industrial design studio xCruza and their Peabody eTermo electric thermos. [Watch]
Director Thomas Valente and the design and animation team at Inertia Studios in London (who made the Best of Stash 2023 with their Helfare spot) brave a serious dust storm in this launch film for Heat Wave Visual’s MX250 goggles. [Watch]
The Stash crew are proud to be founding partners of the Collision Awards, the first honors to recognize animation and motion design excellence in all its forms. Call for entries is now open. Early entry deadline is March 8th, 2024. [Watch]
Using 2D animated frames to guide the motion of their 3D characters, the Rocketpanda crew in Verona, Italy, make a light-hearted but fully convincing case to no longer fear the dentist for dental device brand Mectron. [Watch]
Director Jie Liou and the team at Floating Point Art in Taipei, Taiwan, just landed on the Stash radar with the release of the studio’s first short film, a precise and expansive CG ode to convergence called Origin. [Watch]
Paris animation/design house Pencil TV, director Danae Gosset, and co-director HouHou drop a lovely merger of metaphors and mixed media in this music video for Sudanese-American rapper Bas. [Watch]
