Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Armenian director and motion artist Hasmik Mkhchyan combines her appreciation for American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick and new forms of visual storytelling into a personal short film created with Stable Diffusion. [Watch]
London studio Optical Arts and director Fabrice Le Nezet continue their in-house visual experiments with Babel, a short film “blurring the lines between history, illustration, typography, print, animation, architecture, and design.” [Watch]
Get ready to have your senses shaken as director Alessandro Pacciani and the Platige Image VFX team unleash two minutes of fury and flash inspired by the new Lamborghini Revuelto and its 1015-horsepower hybrid V12 engine. [Watch]
Montreal motion design duo Mat&Fab (Mathieu Harrisson and Fabrice Fenoy) tackle meta themes of motivation and creator’s block in this playful animated short produced in concert with integrated prodco L’Éloi. [Watch]
London-based French animator Jonathan Djob Nkondo, who we last saw opening the GLAS Animation Festival with an eccentric and enigmatic sequence, just released this exhilarating short film “Little Taste of Joy”. [Watch]
The Mill gathers a massive multi-national VFX team to conjure multiple levels of evil and darkness in this ominous launch trailer for Diablo IV, the latest installment of Blizzard’s blockbuster action RPG arriving June 6. [Watch]
Diogo Kalil, who recently directed this powerful piece for the Irish charity Dublin Simon Community, continues his exploration of AI imagery but with a drastically different tone in this new video for Polish hardcore band Węże. [Watch]
In their latest adventure into CG magic realism, creative director Igor Sordokhonov and the crew of 3D explorers at Media.Work conjure a series of tableaux reimagining technology and artifacts related to data postprocessing. [Watch]
If you’re looking for feel-good vibes and a happy ending, this is not your short film. But if you love satire, fearless art direction, and 1920s-influenced character design, we highly recommend watching Mr. Pete & the Iron Horse. [Watch]
Brazilian director/animator Filipe Consoni and the animation team at Fern in Atlanta mark Mental Health Awareness Month with a dramatic journey through surreal worlds to drive home the message “no one is ever truly alone”. [Watch]
Syndrome Studio co-founders Mars Sandoval and Micah Hancock in LA: “A political thriller with a classic rock band at the heart, What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears? uncovers the hidden story behind the band’s 1970 Eastern Europe tour”. [Watch]
London CG studio Panoply fosters a culture of active curiosity when it comes to their chosen medium, producing a steady flow of in-house motion experiments. That restless R&D mindset recently caught the attention of Marvel Studios. [Watch]
Hot on the heels of his frenetic streetwear spot for Adidas, Amsterdam director/digital artist Menno Fokma shifts gears for a fashion-forward sci-fi vibe in this virtual production mixing live-action and VFX for Dutch retailer Zeeman. [Watch]
The SCAD Fashion program kicked off its 2023 live runway show with this ambitious film by Scholar director/CD Chris Finn (SCAD B.F.A, 2015) combining dance, motion design, and AI with garments by 100 graduating students. [Watch]
