We begin our review of the music videos of the year with our choice of the best animated videos of 2019. As ever, there were some remarkable applications of animation in this year's choices.

Our favourite animated videos (or videos featuring substantial amounts of animation) feature some wonderful expressions of the craft and artform by both experienced and new talent, from around the globe. From the high end anime by Takashi Murakami for Billie Eilish (above) and Saad Moosajee's rotoscope-like animations for Mitski and Thom Yorke, to Chris Ullens' brilliant combination of puppetry and live action for Lee Ann Womack and Páraic Mc Gloughlin's wonderful award-winning animation of photography for Weval - and much more.   

So here's our Top 20 animated videos of the year.

Videos

• Battles ft. Sal Principato 'Titanium 2 Step' by Masanobu Hiraoka
• Billie Eilish 'you should see me in a crown' by Takashi Murakami
• Björk 'Tabula Rasa' by Tobias Gremmler
• Coldplay 'Daddy' by Åsa Lucander
• Dan Deacon 'Sat By A Tree' by Daren Rabinovitch
• Editors 'Barricades' by Hi-sim
• Eels 'You Are The Shining Light' by David Horsburgh
• Foals 'Like Lightning' by Virginie Kypriotis
• Idles 'Never Fight A Man With A Perm' by Al Brown
• Laurence Pike 'Drum Chant' by Clemens Habicht
• Lee Ann Womack 'Hollywood' by Chris Ullens
• Leifur James 'Wurlitzer' by Balázs Simon
• Max Cooper 'Repetition' by Kevin McGlouglin
• Mitski 'A Pearl' by Saad Moosajee & Danae Gosset
• Nicolas Godin 'The Border' by Alden Volney
• Paul Jacks 'Lightning Lobotomy' by Eric Power
• Sivan Talmor 'Sad Heart' by Karni & Saul
• The Comet Is Coming 'Summon The Fire' by RUFFMERCY
• The Specials 'Vote For Me' by Dan Emmerson
• Thom Yorke 'Last I Heard (…He Was Circling The Drain)' by Art Camp and Saad Moosajee
• Weval 'Someday' by Páraic Mc Gloughlin