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For Cars & Trains’ The Sun Always Sets Lew Baldwin delivered this highly imaginative animation promo. Created with illustrations by David Foarde plus various ‘found objects’, (comic book pages, old childrens books and scanned items) the video is a wonderful mash-up collage with visuals strewn together with little regard for cleanliness.
Cars & Trains
The Sun Always [...]
Friday, 5. March 2010 | No comments »
Tags: Cars & Trains, Circle Into Square, Lew Baldwin, RedJam Productions, Team, The Sun Always Sets
Stylo – the first single from the hotly-anticipated new Gorillaz album Plastic Beach – sees the return of the successful pairing of band co-creator Jamie Hewlett and Passion Pictures’ Pete Candeland.
And for the first time most of the band appear as three-dimensional characters within a riveting live action sequence – featuring a guest appearance [...]
Tuesday, 2. March 2010 | 3 comments »
Tags: BUG, BUG 18, Gorillaz, HSI Productions, Jamie Hewlett, Parlophone, Passion Pictures, Pete Candeland, Stylo, Zombie Flesheaters
Quirky lo-fi animation by 3D artist Richard Thomas and BUG’s redoubtable editor and title sequence creator Miland Suman for the Australian singer-songwriter Bertie Blackman.
Miland and Richard used Bertie’s own artwork as the basis for the video, and it actually involved making puppets of six of Bertie’s hand-drawn characters, a live action shoot, roto and matting [...]
Monday, 1. March 2010 | No comments »
Tags: Bertie Blackman, Black Cats, Forum 5, Locomotion Post, Miland Suman, Richard Thomas
For the new Turin Brakes single – the first from their sixth studio album Outbursts, at new home Cooking Vinyl – Harry Dwyer has directed this epic war story. And he did it all from the relative comfort of his own flat.
It’s all done with toy soldiers and meticulously-created sets – and it’s [...]
Friday, 26. February 2010 | 3 comments »
Tags: 2AM Films, Cooking Vinyl, Harry Dwyer, Rob Collins, Sea Change, Turin Brakes
After last year’s marvellous Power Rangers-style blockbuster for The Drum, Nobody Beats The Drum bandmember and visual mastermind Rogier van der Zwaag has taken a very different approach for new track Grindin’: making a stop motion video with a huge number of wooden blocks.
4085 photos and 300 wooden blocks later, the new NBTD video is [...]
Thursday, 25. February 2010 | 3 comments »
Tags: 100% Halal, BUG, BUG 18, Grindin’, Nobody Beats The Drum, Rogier van der Zwaag
From the new Massive Attack album Heligoland – out today – comes the third video. And yes, it’s the same track as Baillie Walsh’s bullfighting film, which gives some indication that this isn’t exactly panning out to be a typical campaign.
The new version of Splitting The Atom is by French director Edouard Salier, known for [...]
Monday, 8. February 2010 | No comments »
Tags: Edouard Salier, Massive Attack, Scream Park, Splitting The Atom, Svana Gisla, Virgin Records
The pent-up emo fury of Enter Shikari finds superb expression through the distinctive rotoscope- plus style of Annex director Joseph Pierce.
It’s Joseph’s first video, but after his short films Family Portrait and the award-winning Stand Up, in which he reveals the dark psychology lying beneath reality by meticulously illustrating over live action pictures and [...]
Friday, 5. February 2010 | 4 comments »
Tags: Annex Films, Atlantic Records, Claire Stubbs, Enter Shikari, Joseph Pierce, Thumper
Two minutes of deconstructed animation joy by the brilliant David OReilly and his Hollywood-based friend Jon Klassen – who also collaborated with David on his U2 video for I’ll Go Crazy – which works as a continuous loop.
“My good friend Jon Klassen came over to Berlin in October,” explains David on his blog. “We [...]
Thursday, 4. February 2010 | No comments »
Tags: Black Lake, BUG, BUG 17, David OReilly, Jon Klassen, Katsuhiko Maeda
Ben Steiger Levine has a way with creating thigns with that ‘how did they do that?’ quality. First there was Socalled’s You Are Never Alone, where the artist dismantles his own face. Then there was the amazing bee-man of the Grammy-nominated video for Beast’s Mr Hurricane.
Now he has created a surreal room where empty [...]
Wednesday, 3. February 2010 | No comments »
Tags: Arts & Crafts, Ben Steiger Levine, BUG, BUG 17, Heavens To Purgatory, Most Serene Republic, NuFilms
A superb ‘animated-live action’ video for the Illinois power-rock duo Tweak Bird by the LA-based director Nick Peterson.
With his figures cavorting against black, Nick reveals that he was inspired by Roman vase art – but with his bodacious devil-girl there’s also a substantial nod to retro-inspired poster art maestros like Kozik and Coop.
Nick [...]
Tuesday, 2. February 2010 | 2 comments »
Tags: BUG, BUG 17, Nicholas Peterson, The Bones, Tweak Bird