Marrying the powerful lyrics – a ‘metaphor of the Dresden bombing and a beautiful relationship ruined’ with strong graphic animation, Robisrob’s promo for OMD takes its lead from classic James Bond title sequences. “The rotoscoped style seemed to fit the illustrated look of OMD’s visual output and the slow-motion movements and fighting narrative were a [...]
An awesome achievement of mixed media animation and projection for Iron and Wine’s Joy, from the album Ghost on Ghost, by Hayley Morris which has resulted in something lovely. Iron and Wine is the project of songwriter Sam Beam, and Hayley explained to NPR that the video was made by projecting hand-painted water color animations [...]
Anton Octavian has impressively channelled his felt-tip style fury into this colourful stop-motion montage for Sirsy’s Lionheart. Put together on a digital drawing tablet, Anton has managed to animate some ‘live’ performance of the band, and also render some of the king of the jungle himself. One-man production team Anton says: “I think that was [...]
Nicos Livesey and Tom Bunker have created a marvellous animated video for London dance-rock outfit BINARY’s G.O.D. in which a rigidly ordered world – graphically and narratively – is breached by a errant worker, who rebels by infecting the geometric universe with a far wilder style of animation, and far more colour… Tom and Nicos [...]
With a nod to Japanese horror films and some natty stop motion head regeneration, Craig Murray tells the odd tale of a man who visits a strange young girl. As things go, he ends up getting his head cut off, so it’s fortunate that he can grow another one. Influenced by Jan Svankmajer, Asian exploitation [...]
Hayley Akins, director of animated videos for Dignan Porch and Evil Eyes, has created a mesmerizing video for Wild Nothing’s A Dancing Shell – and the result is a very Eighties style of surreal-abstract art. The animation for A Dancing Shell is based on the work of painter Eric Shaw, who has designed all the [...]
Joe Osborn from Sussex based ‘Guns for Hire Film’ has put together a charming scrapbook stop-motion for Canadian children’s singer Helen Austin. Joe says that “the idea was to make a video about a young girls love of the song and I thought there would be nothing more fitting than a scrap book, where the [...]
If you thought you could not get an emotional reaction by animating triangles, Tom Jobbins’ video for Hiatus’s We Can Be Ghosts Now will make you think again. The track is based upon a story of a couple trying to find each other amid the Twin Towers disaster – and Tom has translated this into [...]
A word of warning: if you’re not fantastically keen on imagery of a pornographic nature then don’t watch this video. Or if you’re in a workplace with other people that aren’t necessarily as broadminded as yourself, then you should take the NSFW label seriously… But for everyone else – well, go ahead and enjoy Megaforce’s [...]
Plastic Horse are a very talented pair indeed. Based in Haggerston, they specialise in hand-drawn animation with a lovely textured feel. They seem to have a penchant for progressive beatmakers and have made promos for the likes of Crookers, Nochexxx, Débruit and Lukid. And this is their second video for arguably the UK’s most unique [...]
