Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Golden Wolf director/CD Stefan Falconer, whose talents elevated this powerful Adidas Football/Manchester United work, serves up a series of over-the-top spots to help Coca-Cola’s new OOHA soda make noise in the crowded Thai market. [Watch]
Director Yibi Hu and the team at Future Power Station in London craft an energized, anime-flavored teaser for the upcoming animated series The Tale of Kitsune from the art and music NFT collection Capsule House. [Watch]
The new crime drama City on Fire (based on the novel by Garth Risk Hallberg) hit Apple TV+ with hardcore typographic grit setting the tone in these main titles by Imaginary Forces CDs Karin Fong and Rob Slychuk. [Watch]
Justin Hackney, a London-based CD/director and founder of the AI community Realdreams.io, is on a mission to share and democratize generative creative tools. With this short film, he “unveils a cinematic odyssey through time and space.” [Watch]
Cub Studio, the Brighton-based animation crew who infuse charm into subjects like how to make a proper cup of tea and Trumpian factoids, just released this short film about a prideful Red Triangle learning about diversity and inclusion. [Watch]
Director Federico Heller and the animation crew at 3dar (who brought us the epic insanity of this Lil Dicky video) just dropped a snappy piece of character comedy for their mixed reality game Eggscape. [Watch]
Creative director Cristina Pasquale at Illo in Turin, Italy: “We crafted a unified motion language for a global technology leader (who we can’t reveal due to an NDA) with grid-based shapes, outlines, and animation rules to convey the complexity of their services. [Watch]
The next chapter in the history of motion design is here. Watch the two-minute trailer for Stash 159 and ID all the stellar design, animation, and VFX projects that are now part of the Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
Few motion artists have a style as distinctive as Ruffmercy and in a time when design often feels homogenous, new work from the UK director/animator – such as this film for Swedish musical instrument developer Elektron – is a refreshing thing. [Watch]
Partizan Studio and director Warren Fu head up a flotilla of animation talent including Picnic Studio, H5, Light, Machine Molle, and Meat Dept for this grand exercise in walk cycles for “Infinity Repeating” off the 10th Anniversary Edition of Daft Punk’s landmark album Random Access Memories. [Watch]
Director/writer Adam Paloian, best known for his SpongeBob SquarePants exploits, and animator/YouTuber Chris O’Neill leave few tropes unturned in this comic romp for Tenacious D (all rendered in Unreal Engine). [Watch]
From the team at FutureDeluxe: “Working in close partnership with the Global Brand team at Amazon, we crafted a new cinematic opener, reimagining the Prime Video experience in motion for a global audience of over 200 million people.” [Watch]
Have we reached peak CG watch wars? Impossible to really tell of course but one thing we can state for certain: for sheer quantity and quality of commissioned output, Swiss luxury horologists Hublot are the current front runners. [Watch]
Taking time off from their diet of television and film VFX work, the crew at Motif Studios in Cape Town dig in for a fun blast of character design and animation in this short film they call Gelato Roboto. [Watch]
