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 [...]
An unmistakeable slab of Daniels’ virtuosity graces the video for Passion Pit’s Cry Like A Ghost – about a girl who’s on an emotional rollercoaster – and physically swinging from guy to guy during the course of the video. It almost resembles a horror film at first, shot in a dark forest, but the characteristic [...]
Eighteen months after his remarkable video for The Satellite Year’s implausibly titled Jelly, Jelly, How To Survive Such A Trip?, director and VFX whizz Thorsten Hary has been at it again for the German popster’s latest single, A Campus, A Heart, A Star. He’s created another video that resembles a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster, with suitably [...]
Reuben Dangoor’s mesmerizing new video for Diplo’s Butters Theme features multiples of saucily-garbed girls – cool styling from Jessica mae and Marika Ames – shaking their stuff against a background of 80’s sunset colours – a highly impressive exercise is After Effects, with Gabriel Ayache as VFX artist and co-director, culminating in a Cyriak-style kaleidoscopic climax… [...]
Cyriak is back with another mind-bending masterpiece of animation – this time using prosaic mid-20th century stock footage as his raw material for After Effects supermanipulation – for Cirrus, the first single from Bonobo’s new album The North Borders, which comes out in April. And Ninja Tune have had to sit on this beauty for [...]
Hayley Akins’ charming promo for San Francisco band Evil Eyes follows the lyrics of someone stuck in a room full of dynamite – playing with matches. The promo, full of abstract sequences of dancing matches forming patterns like synchronised swimmers, was all hand-drawn by Hayley then animated in After Effects. Evil Eyes Playing With Matches [...]
Ben Collier-Marsh, creative director of Radiant Studios, has created this brilliant, mesmerising 3D version of an orrery – a mechanical device that illustrates the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the solar system (thanks Wikipedia…) – to accompany jazz-electronic duo Part-Time Heroes’ delightful Holy. It is pristinely beautiful, and quite magical. [...]
With vintage toys and mesmerising kaleidoscopic effects, Jack Chute’s excellent video for drum and bass artist Rockwell’s Childhood Memories – featuring Kito and Sam Frank – is a complete graphic reimagining of your childhood… “I wanted to create a graphical nostalgic trip back through the 80s and 90s using explosive animations to conjure up memories [...]
A lovely woodcut-style animated video for Dignan Porch’s Picking Up Dust by Hayley Akins, based on artwork by Stephen Keane that was then animated in After Effects. The stream-of-consciousness, dreamlike imagery in the video loosely ties in to the lyrics of the song, which is taken from Dignan Porch’s forthcoming album. Dignan Porch Picking Up [...]
Céline Desrumaux, one half of animation/direction team Céline & Yann, creators of The Giants animation series and signed to Passion – has now completed this personal project, a gorgeous short film/video, pretty much explained by its title: Countdown. For all intents, it’s a NASA rocket launch, faithfully rendered in a minimal illustrative style, and it’s [...]
