Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Working with Freestudios in Geneva, London-based Turkish director/artist Onur Senturk transforms the latest limited-edition masterpiece from Swiss luxury watch and clock maker MB&F into a desert-bound piece of kinetic architecture. [Watch]
Headquartered in Cyprus, CG studio AltSpace just drove onto the Stash radar with this mix of engineering and adrenaline showcasing the features underpinning the high performance of Aston Martin’s DBX707 luxury SUV. [Watch]
WIZZ director/animator Emmanuelle Walker takes time away from the budgets and deadlines of commercial work to mine subconscious symbols from her life and art for this enigmatic and unpredictable short film. [Watch]
It’s a tough fact of production life that some design jobs – usually ones you’ve invested with a lot of love – wither and die on the vine. The team at Ordinary Folk in Vancouver decided this was not one of those projects. [Watch]
Motion Plus Design, one of the planet’s premier design festivals invades Paris, Nov 25 with a stellar line up including Vallée Duhamel, Alexa Sirbu, Jeff Han, Gaspar Noé, Tom Kan, Burton Rast, Dédouze, and Quentin Deronzier. [Watch]
XK studio explores the idea of graphical music notation in this mesmerizing and spectacularly detailed wrap-around CG motion work for UK producer/composer/sound designer Matthew Wilcock installed at Outernet London. [Watch]
Grab a peek at the trailer for Stash 162, a seriously inspired crop of motion design, animation, and VFX – now available for your streaming pleasure as part of the Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
Director Joe Sill and the virtual production team at Impossible Objects conjure a massive fantasy world in this music video for singer/songwriter/artist PIA and EDM producer Anymize using only a 30 X 12 LED wall and Unreal Engine. [Watch]
In their latest product film for Los Angeles wellness brand Therabody, Denver studio DNGR crafts an intimate and meticulously rendered love letter to the Theragun PRO Plus massage device. [Watch]
Partnering with BMW and Epic Games, the design and CG crew at Mondlicht Studios in Germany put Unreal Engine thru its paces to add flashes of the surreal to this cinematic for the 2023 Game Developers Conference. [Watch]
If you’re a Little Shop of Horrors fan, you’ll appreciate this fun take on the aggressive house plant genre from VFX force Electric Theatre Collective and Riff Raff directors Megaforce for John Lewis’ much-anticipated Christmas spot. [Watch]
With ample helpings of visual wit and style, director Jonny Kofoed and the motion team at Assembly in Auckland, New Zealand, transform dry facts and numbers about corporate change into an engaging message for Deloitte. [Watch]
With a manic mash-up of 3D and 2D animation, Paris studio Nōbl make sure the tone stays light and lively in this hype trailer for the global championship of Teamfight Tactics, Riot Games’ spinoff of League of Legends. [Watch]
Just two weeks after dropping this crazed spot for Opel, director Henry Scholfield and Cape Town studio Wicked Pixels are back with more VFX fun – this time for Nike China thru prodco Hamlet and the Shanghai office of Wieden+Kennedy. [Watch]
