Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Director/concept artist Kristoffer Brady in Paris: “GHOSTS is a tribute to the original animated short Hashiru Otoko by anime master Yoshiaki Kawajiri, creator of the classics Vampire Hunter D, Wicked City, and Ninja Scroll. [Watch]
The latest short film release from the Gobelins 2023 computer animation class tracks the visually arresting ebb and flow of buried inner traumas as they wash over a young woman trapped in a disabled space station. [Watch]
Le Cube partner/CD Santiago Oddis contemplates a poetic but lighthearted connection between your sneakers and the cut-outs created by Henri Matisse in the last chapter of his long and multifaceted career. [Watch]
London-based designer/AD Dan Hoopert just released the second short film in his Audio Synthesis series exploring the relationship between motion and sound. Although technically-driven, both films make for delightful viewing. [Watch]
In a full two minutes of VFX-fueled fun, Academy Films director Henry Scholfield makes the case for switching to the electric Opel Corsa and Vauxhall Corsa with animation and CG support from Wicked Pixels in Cape Town. [Watch]
In striking contrast to the narrative complexities and relentless pacing of BODIES, Studio AKA director Marcus Armitage opens the Netflix series with clean, calm titles that tastefully allude to the show’s time-related mystery. [Watch]
The design and animation team at Superdesigners studio in Hong Kong subjects CASETiFY’s new Ultra Bounce Case to a barrage of virtual perils and prat falls in a fun new brand film. [Watch]
Director Ernest Desumbila and his crew at Sauvage.TV in Barcelona snap back to the League of Legends world with impossibly kinetic action layered up in CG and glitchy hand-animated 2D for Riot Games virtual boy band Heartsteel. [Watch]
The many frustrations of shared parenting in the face of impending doom are tied together with impeccable comic timing in this multi-award-winning comedy from five young director/animators graduating from École des Nouvelles Images. [Watch]
The newest crop of student films out of the Ringling College Computer Animation Department feature four very different protagonists singing, eating, exploring, and following their hearts toward four happy endings. [Watch]
Cincinnati studio Polymath Motion celebrates the minimalist beauty and thoughtful utility of Hay’s 100% recycled color crates with an elegant in-house exercise in form, light, and composition. [Watch]
Inspired by print magazines and fanzines, the design and animation crew at Bark&Bite in London say they “aimed at pulling on nostalgic heartstrings” in their first work for Crocs. [Watch]
Gifted with creative freedom by the client, B-O-D studio in Beijing unleashes an adrenalin blast of hyper-parkour action, cool weapons, and hapless zombies in this promo for the free battle royale shooter PUBG Mobile. [Watch]
Danish animation director Kim Hagen Jensen and the Milford Animation team in Stockholm, conjure some fabulously freakish flora for the relaunch of FuturePlay’s free-to-play puzzle game Merge Gardens. [Watch]
