Snow Patrol’s The Lightning Strike live visuals by Atticus Finch
Monday, 30. March 2009 - 8:44 am
Not content with writing era-defining multi-million sellers, Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody came up with the idea for a 16-minute HD animation played as screen visuals as the band play the epic three-track song-cycle called The Lightning Strike on their current Take Back The Cities world stadium tour.
The tour’s video director Blue Leach from Splinter Films called in Atticus Finch, with Chris Richmond providing creative direction and production by Jim Waters, to realise the singer’s idea of a representing the world and the universe as origami.
Atticus Finch brought in fellow micro-studio Undabo to help develop an origami style of modelling and texturing that drew on album artwork for A Hundred Million Suns. They animated rockets, satellites, fish, rainbows, cars – and a Snow Patrol gig in ‘CGI origami’.
In a little over three months, they created over 24,000 frames of bespoke animation to be played out onto a 60 x 40ft projection screen. For the first six minutes this is hung in from of the band before moving to massive LED screens behind them.
Snow Patrol
The Lightning Strike live visuals
Prod co 1: Splinter Films
Director: Blue Leach
Producer: Emer Patten
Prod co 2: Atticus Finch
Creative Director: Chris Richmond
Animation Producer: Jim Waters
Modeling and Animation: Simon Brown
Modeling and Animation: Doug Kennedy
Watch: edited version
2. April 2009 - 8:37 pm
i recently had the luxury of seeing this fantastic footage, that went with the lightning strike track at snow patrols birmingham date on their recent world tour. is there any chance that i can get my hands on the video or download it. “out of this world”
16. April 2009 - 8:09 pm
I also had the chance to see the stuning animation live whilst the band played in liverpool. We were standing and got a ideal spot for watching the animation and it was just mesmoriseing and the whole crowed was endrawn by it. It was very sureal and i recomend any one who has the chance should watch it live….
25. October 2009 - 4:42 pm
Is there anywhere we can see this film? We caught it in a concert but would love to be able to view it online in its original form.
27. November 2009 - 12:32 pm
The animated film is included in Snow Patrol’s latest CD/DVD release “Up To Now” along with loads of Snow Patrol promos, documentaries and other previously unseen footage. Enjoy!
18. December 2009 - 7:09 pm
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