Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Brooklyn visual artist and director Omar Jones teams with the UK’s master of hand-animated chaos RUFFMERCY on this 100-second visual rampage for American rapper Denzel Curry. [Watch]
In this new music video for Paris duo Chien Méchant, director Kelzang Ravach leads French studio Temple Caché into an acid-enhanced 80s nightmare, lacing live-action footage with an AI-generated graphic style. [Watch]
From the team at Rumpus Animation in Bristol: “Jane Fonda, Camila Cabello, and Simon Pegg voice our short film Sanctuary designed to motivate supporters and urge governments to ratify the Global Ocean Treaty and protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030.” [Watch]
London title specialists Huge Designs, whose many styles of design we’ve covered here, assemble a collage of illustrative and 3D elements into an enigmatic sequence for the British thriller series Wilderness. [Watch]
With inspiration drawn from a Beijing Opera performance depicting two warriors fighting in the dark, director Zhang Yu and his team at CCLAB combine dynamic motion with a black and white palette in a sleek TVC for HUAWEI’s flagship phone range. [Watch]
In understated but powerful new work, Mill+ director Andrew Proctor and The Mill VFX crew showcase the new DWB, a fictitious CG car designed to “shine a light on the double standard in policing of Black people in America.” [Watch]
Tobias Gallé at design studio Pikdrei in Mannheim, Germany: “We were invited with the fantastic brief of ‘You are allowed to do whatever you want’, to create the opening titles for the 2023 Beyond Tellerrand Conference in Berlin.” [Watch]
In their latest elegant and energized product film for Chinese skincare brand Zhiben, Final Frontier and Copenhagen CG masters Frame choreograph a compelling showcase for the brand’s Dermal Defender refill system. [Watch]
Expanding on his 2021 CG motion experiment Synced, Belgian designer/3D artist Fabian Aerts crafts a poetic visual allegory for the corrosive power of deceit and deception in this new short film LIE. [Watch]
Head into fall fully inspired with a preview of Stash 161, the latest issue of outstanding motion design, animation, and VFX now streaming as part of the one and only Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
To open their doc about three modern pioneers experiencing challenges in their home state of West Virginia, the crew at design/animation studio Coat of Arms crafts a tactile and symbolic sequence built from maps of Appalachia. [Watch]
While admitting he is still ambivalent about AI, Amsterdam-based director/digital artist Menno Fokma embraced the new technology to jump-start this proof of concept for a short film he describes as “a hyper-real nature simulation.” [Watch]
Passion Pictures’ directing/animation team Future Power Station merge 2D animation with 3D motion capture to transform Norwegian triathletes Gustav Iden and Kristian Blummenfelt into Viking warriors in new work for Swiss sportswear brand On. [Watch]
The immense cruelty of factory farming snaps into emotional focus in this meticulous CG creature work from The Mill London and All Mighty Pictures’ directors Mark Harbour and Anthony Dickenson for non-profit World Animal Protection. [Watch]
