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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dylan Woodley of Insomnia Animations has created, executed, filmed & very much entirely Lego-ed a shot-for-shot reenactment in Lego of Emil Nava’s video for Ed Sheeran’s Lego House – the one with Rupert Grint as the Ed lookalike and stalker fan. With a certain irresistible logic, it has been made to coincide with the American [...]
It took 10,000 photos, 1 km (or 350 reels) of thread, 73,000 embroidery stitches, 6 kg of scraps of fabric, 100 needles and sewing pins and two months of painstaking work for Christophe Thockler to create this fantastic video for Black Books’ Favorite Place, which could certainly be described as the first embroidered lyric video… [...]
A collaboration between Natasha Khan and animation/mixed media master Peter Sluszka has resulted in this diverse and absorbing visual feast for Bat For Lashes’ Lilies – the fourth single from the critically acclaimed album The Haunted Man: life-sized puppets, a flock of 2D spirits, miniature landscapes, morphing polygons, and Natasha herself were animated to create [...]
French directing duo Vincent Pianina & Lorenzo Papace are freshly signed to HSI. Recently garnering critical acclaim for their delightful papercraft stop-frame music video for Ödland’s Østersøen, Pianina & Papace have come from established careers in children’s illustration (Vincent) and music composition (Lorenzo, who is the founder of the band Ödland). Together they have directed [...]
Polish animation duo Katarzyna Kijek and Przemyslaw Adamski have a knack of manipulating everyday materials in ingenious ways – from their stop motion work with cut-up paper for Oi Va Voi, to their remarkable video for Polish jazzer Tomasz Stanko, created from 1km of yarn and a bunch of flashlights. But Kijek / Adamski’s video [...]
After his amazing jelly beans video for Kina Grannis’s In Your Arms, another marvellous live action/stop motion animation by Greg Jardin – this time for Joey Ramone’s New York City, featuring the city and its inhabitants, including musicians, comedians and other New York celebs – plus a few faces from the NYC punk scene. Greg [...]
