Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
CD Aaron Becker and the motion crew at Filmograph in Los Angeles (whose titles for The Beekeeper we featured in Stash 164) layer up a menacing atmosphere for the HBO series The Penguin. [Watch]
Maintaining a fine balance between elegant and edgy, London-based designer/director Pandayoghurt (aka Douglas Bowden) elevates this work for Motorola above the ongoing neck-deep tide of CG phone films. [Watch]
With the use of both austere compositions and meticulous lighting, the CG motion team at Tektura Studio craft a rugged and envy-inducing reveal film for CASETiFY’s new Ultra Bounce Case for Apple iPhone 16. [Watch]
The open-world adventure RPG Genshin Impact rolled out its Natlan map expansion with these 80 seconds of hyperactivity – a neck-snapping, shark-surfing showcase for the design and animation powers of the team at BUCK. [Watch]
Getting an early jump on Halloween horrors, the Goodbye Kansas team just released this trailer for Bloober’s third-person survival game Cronos: The New Dawn providing both atmospheric and visceral chills. [Watch]
The third episode in the Stash Motion>Profiles series delivers an insightful dive into the creative process, hiring priorities, and surprising origin story of Vancouver design and animation studio Giant Ant. [Watch]
Brussels-based director/animator Joost Jansen, who says “morphing animations are my blood flow”, casts his alter ego Dreamcat in the lead role of this out-of-control music video for Flemish hip-hop artist Kramer (aka Jeroen Perceval). [Watch]
Serious footwear for serious runners, the Adidas Adizero Adios Pro 4 receives an innovative visual and audio treatment from London studio Tomorrow Bureau highlighting the technology and tactility of the shoe. [Watch]
Toronto VFX and post house The Vanity (whose best work we track here), supplies the visual fun in this spot directed by Oscar-winner Joachim Back thru Partners Film and agency Broken Heart Love Affair for The Rec Room. [Watch]
Animation and motion folk! Take a break from the keyframes and the join us at Animorsels on Oct. 24 for a spooky evening of animated fun and drinks featuring ghoulish short animations and a talk by Davey “Swatpaz” Ferguson. [Watch]
Building on the lyrical and emotional power of David Bowie’s “Heroes”, the animation team at Airplan Studio brings period style and plenty of drama to the title sequence for the feature doc Playing to Survive: von Cramm vs Hitler. [Watch]
Master CG stylist Javier Vallejo at JVG in Madrid conjures 30 seconds of iridescent CG optical art in this collaboration between Meta, hip-hop magazine The Source, and California eyewear brand Blenders. [Watch]
Our partners at the Telly Awards honor excellence in video and television across all screens and entries for the 46th season are now open with new and expanded motion categories including Short Films and Realtime Rendering. [Watch]
Drawing inspiration from the style of Studio Ghibli, Brikk Animation leverages the full range of human emotions to highlight the landmine clearance work done by Japanese manufacturing and tech giant Komatsu in Cambodia. [Watch]
