Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Flux celebrates its 15th year with the launch of Flux Festival, an event centered on innovation in film, art, and emerging technology with a full day of talks, screenings, and performances Nov. 23rd in Los Angeles. [Watch]
Leveraging their passion for the automotive arts, ECD David Macey and the crew at INK Studio in London frame the new Mclaren MCL38 Formula One car as evolutionary hi-tech sculpture in this dramatic launch film. [Watch]
Kiwi vitamin and supplement brand Healtheries gets a shot of contagious cheerful energy in this spot delivered by director Roberts Kulenko and the team at Latvian animation studio Panic thru TBWA\New Zealand. [Watch]
The Passion Paris animation team and director Juan Pablo Machado help mark the 30th anniversary of the Ronald McDonald Foundation with this poignant, atmospheric, and beautifully drafted film created thru TBWA Paris. [Watch]
Aardman director Steve Harding-Hill returns to Mossy Bottom Farm to save Shaun the Sheep and a Christmas choir from the elements in this seasonal stop-motion treat for English luxury and lifestyle brand Barbour. [Watch]
Director Jake Wegesin and his animation studio Ambient Press (whose work we track here) just released his latest short film, an ambitious and deeply personal journey exploring themes of belonging and determination. [Watch]
Exploring the idea of natural rhythms vs. obsessive productivity, London-based director and 2D animator Emily Downe crafts a poetic and very topical short film with Theos, a Christian think tank based in the UK. [Watch]
The most recent collaboration between venerable Swiss watchmaker Ulysse Nardin and the team at Paris studio I-réel, weaves a mix of CG and macro photography into a sweeping launch campaign for the new Freak S Nomad timepiece. [Watch]
In their latest for the ubiquitous foam footwear brand Crocs, Bark&Bite in London takes a fashion-forward approach, merging live-action and 3D motion design into a quick blast of style for the Overpuff Cyber Clog. [Watch]
Now in his ninth year, UK Christmas favorite Kevin The Carrot pulls off an animated holiday heist full of cheeky one-liners for supermarket chain Aldi courtesy of Psyop directors Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick thru McCann Manchester. [Watch]
Show creator Patrick McHale teams with directors Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, and the Aardman stop-motion team to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his much beloved (and Emmy-winning) Cartoon Network miniseries Over the Garden Wall. [Watch]
The CG motion specialists at Madrid studio Kutuko craft five intricate and scrupulously rendered scenes to showcase the deep relationship Hamilton watches have cultivated with cinema since the brand’s founding in 1932. [Watch]
Working with director/screenwriter Kelly Marcel, CD Karin Fong and the team at Imaginary Forces close out the Venom feature film trilogy with a “beastly parade” of corrupted creatures in this main-on-end title sequence. [Watch]
The 2024 holiday ad season arrives today with UK retailer Argos mascot Trevor the dinosaur living his best life as a rock star courtesy of Partizan director Michael Gracey and the (very busy) Electric Theatre Collective animation crew. [Watch]
