Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Aiming for “a perfect balance between tech and beauty”, the motion team at ManvsMachine explores stylized thermography and x-ray imagery in this brand film for Ultium Home, a new range of green residential products from GM Energy. [Watch]
The incredible variety of motion work included in the Stash Permanent Collection is a major part of what makes it a vital creative resource, and our latest issue is a perfect example. Grab a peak at Stash 168 with this preview. [Watch]
“Haywire” and “sheer madness” are the two descriptions that flash to mind after watching this music video by director Shu Sasaki with Tokyo prodco Khaki wrangling 20+ animation studios into the collective chaos. [Watch]
Olov Burman, the master of bonkers character design and animation (who co-directed this bit of insanity), teams with his fellow Swedes at prodco Mindbender to promo the second annual Nouns Fest film festival. [Watch]
Following up on 2023’s IGA holiday heartwarmer Mr. Beaver, Montreal’s Tonic DNA studio delivers another ambitious character-driven tale with this year’s film capturing the power of cooking to transcend family conflicts. [Watch]
The design and motion team at Mellow Studio in Athens combine cel and 2D digital animation with 3D to craft an energized brand film and backstory for Greek premium tonic and soda brand Three Cents. [Watch]
The world premiere trailer for Ubisoft’s upcoming release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows by Budapest 3D studio DIGIC Pictures is a masterclass in surgical action and masterful lighting held together by powerful storytelling. [Watch]
With “In Hot Water”, NOMINT’s latest environmental epic for WWF premiering at COP29, the London studio continues to push the boundaries of stop-motion – this time capturing the animation entirely on a thermal camera. [Watch]
The design and CG motion crew at NotReal (whose work we track here) unleash an appropriately maximalist demo film for VIZIO TVs promising “more color, brightness, contrast, detail, clarity… more everything”. [Watch]
Passion Pictures director Tom O’Meara combines his extensive stop-motion experience with CG characters to create a happy tactile warmth in this hybrid spot for Spanish telco Movistar thru agency VML Madrid. [Watch]
Paris prodco Jungler and Belgian director Renaud Lavency take on the delicate task of representing the harsh reality of disability discrimination in the work place with the hope provided by European charity LADAPT. [Watch]
Untold Studios, the London VFX crew whose CG creature cred is on full display here and here, team with Hungry Man director Taika Waititi (JoJo Rabbit, Thor: Ragnarok) on a Disney holiday hear-warmer “The Boy & The Octopus”. [Watch]
Leaning into the crucial role played by tactical data in Tencent’s first-person shooter Delta Force, ECD Oriol Puig and the Trizz team unleash two minutes of hardcore CG action punctuated with glitchy design. [Watch]
Wizz director Gary Levesque channels vintage Japanese TV vibes in this film for the Ranger AF3 shoe, a collab between Nike and Japanese fashion designer Nigö, merging lux sneaker fashion and anime nostalgia. [Watch]
