Producer

Jade Bogue

Celebrity Deathmatch meets Groundhog Day in Chris Ullens' terrific and cheerfully gory video for UK teen pop singer Gayle's team-up with singer-songwriter Blackbear - featuring the pair as toys in toytown suburbia, with homicidal tendencies.In this stop-motion epic of nextdoor neighbour hostility, Gayle takes the form of a figure the size of a toy soldier, leaving her house (after guzzling down a real-size frankfurter) to wage war on Blackbear, who lives next door. As he is mowing the lawn to make a rude sign, she feeds him and his friends to the mower. And that just starts the begins the increasingly extravagant&nbsp;ways in which they dispatch each other on a daily basis.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]Ullens is the king of stop-motion animation who has given us some wonderful videos for the likes of Fergie, Rex Orange County and Lee Ann Womack, all from his&nbsp;tabletop studio. This one falls into the category of toy-related gore that he pioneered with Two Fingers' Vengeance Rhythm, a real stomach-churning splatterfest&nbsp;involving a psychopathic teddybear.&nbsp;This is rather more playful - as the animation was created with a series of non-moving&nbsp;plastic figurines. Ullens also only had a four-week turnaround to create his dark comedy - and he still manages to engineer something of a Happy Ever After...&nbsp;

Brin Frost

Chris Ullens

Friends Electric

Trevor Joseph Newton

Jamie Durand

Matthew James Day

Atlantic Records

Gayle ft Blackbear 'fmk' by Chris Ullens

Gayle-(with-Blackbear)-'Fmk'-by-Chris-Ullens

Animation maestro Chris Ullens reunites with Rex Orange County, with their first collaboration since Loving Is Easy back in 2017, to create a sweetly romantic tale for Amazing.In contrast to <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/11/09/rex-orange-county-ft-benny-sings-loving-easy-chris-ullens/50382" target="_blank">Loving Is Easy</a>, where he employed stop motion to animate Rex's bedroom performance with Benny Sings, Ullens opted to use hand puppets to handcraft his story about Mr Hand - a milkman of an alpine town, who milks Cow each morning before going on his delivery round.But his happy regular routine is disturbed when he meets&nbsp;a young lady (hand), falling head-over-thumbs in love..."It's really cool that [Rex] came back to us for a second one!" says Chris Ullens. "He said it was the sister song to the first one we did a video for, and that he wanted us to be back on it for that. But the schedule was mad -&nbsp;so instead of stop-motion we suggested puppeteering and he loved the idea. The schedule was still mad though, as we took four and a half weeks to deliver. But really pleased with the result!"

United Kingdom

Jack McGinity

Alt-Pop

Rex Orange County 'Amazing' by Chris Ullens

Rex-Orange-County-'Amazing'-by-Chris-Ullens

Somewhere in an enigmatic and dystopian future, an evil Queen is entertained by her very own brutal talent show, in Chris Ullen's spectacular stop-motion animated promo for Grammy-winning metal artist Poppy.&nbsp;Using slick puppetry and sci-fi inspired interiors, Ullens creates a nightmare vision which alludes to the darker side of the music industry.&nbsp;Treated like throwaway clones, each of the&nbsp;puppet female rock-stars are constructed on a factory production line, before being thrust on stage to please the figurehead - and then being thrown from their platforms to whatever waits beneath.[imgtoken data:1]Poppy has long held the attention of industry pros and fans alike, and this visual metamorphosis is the latest in a series of exciting and explosive transformations.&nbsp;Every aspect of the creative is exemplary - from a talented team that Chris Ullens credits below, as well as revealing the relentless demands of building robots on factory conveyor in stop motion animation, doing all of the work himself.&nbsp;But as a result, the&nbsp;video's concept will linger long after the three and a half minute runtime.[imgtoken data:2]

Ben Austin

Lewis Crossfield

Time Based Arts

Adeena Grubb

Alternative

Poppy 'Her' by Chris Ullens

Poppy-'Her'-by-Chris-Ullens

Chris Ullens' video for Wait For You is the result of a global collaboration&nbsp;of performers, all filming themselves interpreting Tom Walker's uplifting and emotional track through the medium of dance. All their videos were then edited together and enhanced with hand-drawn animations by Ullens and colleagues to amplify their dynamic, fluid movements.Featuring performances from dancers around the world including India, Nigeria, Japan, South Korea, Belgium, Lebanon, France, Germany, the UK and the US, each dancer expresses the emotions of Wait For You&nbsp;to tell its story of healing and feeling free from your past in their own ways – visualizing the therapeutic powers of music and the cathartic expression it can provide.&nbsp; Although each dancer has filmed themselves separately, there’s a real sense of global unity and togetherness in the video as each dancer’s interpretation of the song&nbsp;comes together as one. A heart-warming sentiment considering the isolation brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak.&nbsp;

Michael Zauner

Iris Abols

Kat Cattaneo

Relentless Records

OB Management

Singer-songwriter

Tom Walker 'Wait For You' by Chris Ullens

Tom-Walker-'Wait-For-You'-by-Chris-Ullens

This wonderful video by Chris Ullens for country star Lee Ann Womack brings the&nbsp;story of a crumbling relationship to life in a way that&#39;s both familiar and new: stop motion animation meets live action to quite brilliant effect.It&#39;s a couple - Lee Ann and her narcissistic boyfriend - on a road trip through iconic California, a series of motels and car journeys&nbsp;as he seeks fame and she provides selfless support. The brilliant conceit is that this believable world is created through a combination of puppets, miniature models and real locations, rear-projected and edited with a level of craft that blurs the lines between live action and animation.Ullens has so much experience as a stop motion animator, and a storyteller and its really demonstrated here. It&#39;s one of the best things he&#39;s ever made.&nbsp;

United States

The Joy Of Sets

CHEAT

Aaron Lampert

Ato Records

Country

Lee Ann Womack 'Hollywood' by Chris Ullens

Lee-Ann-Womack-'Hollywood'-by-Chris-Ullens

Hell hath no fury&hellip; like a Fergie scorned. And in the video for Love Is Blind she takes maximum retribution on her lovers&#39; wayward behaviour - all in candy-coloured stop-motion.Chris Ullens, who once turned <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2012/10/25/two-fingers-vengeance-rhythm-chris-ullens" target="_blank">a cuddly teddy bear into a homicidal maniac</a>, does a great job with his&nbsp;miniature Fergie. She looks like a doll living in a Barbie-like world - but animated into a character&nbsp;who despatches the men in her life with a cold-eyed&nbsp;smile. And we&#39;re with her all the way.&nbsp;

Fergie

Emily Suvanvej

Rebecca Luff

TenThree

Electric Theatre Collective

William Derella

Fergie 'Love Is Blind' by Chris Ullens

Fergie-'Love-Is-Blind'-by-Chris-Ullens

After making a hard-hitting stop-motion satire on environmental catastrophe created by&nbsp;a Trump-like property developer for <a href="http://promonews.tv/videos/2015/11/13/kill-noise-feat-awolnation-r-city-kill-it-4-kids-chris-ullens" target="_blank">Kill The Noise</a>,&nbsp;Chris Ullens now takes aim at another deserving subject for Zeds Dead &ndash; the&nbsp;over-use of phones and social networking &ndash; and&nbsp;hits the mark once again.Again employing stop motion animation&nbsp;to great effect, Ullens has created a simple yet colourful world of recognisable character types. At first the whole neighbourhood seems to be getting along swimmingly (if inanely), but it&#39;s not long before everyone&#39;s phones causes misery to themselves and others around them.&nbsp;It all looks good online though. That&#39;s&nbsp;the main thing, right?!

Chris & Jade

Cherie Sinclair

Emilie Suvanvej

James Wright

Travis Richel

Deadbeats

Zeds Dead ft. Rivers Cuomo & Pusha T 'Too Young' by Chris Ullens

Zeds-Dead-'Too-Young-(feat.-Rivers-Cuomo-And-Pusha-T)'-by-Chris-Ullens

Earlier this year Chris Ullens transformed his own Super 8mm holiday movie into a video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/02/10/satin-jackets-feat-esser-shine-you-chris-ullens" target="_blank">Satin Jackets</a>. Now he&#39;s&nbsp;done something similar for new artist Izzy Bizu for her track Adam &amp; Eve,&nbsp;capturing a carefree getaway to the English coast by Izzy and her pals.Chris documents the roadtrip to the sunkissed&nbsp;Isle of Wight, holiday house, dancing,&nbsp;sparklers and bonfires &ndash;&nbsp;all shot on genuine Super 8mm by the director and Jamie Durand &ndash;&nbsp;and as with the Satin Jackets vid, augmented by hand-drawn&nbsp;animations by Ullens himself. And it&#39;s interesting how the classic home movie format dovetails with the spirit of the Instagram age.&nbsp;

Katie Coward

Ten Three

Simon Ainge

Studio RM

Vince Ullens

Elizabeth Doonan

Sony Music

Pop, R&B

Soul

Izzy Bizu 'Adam & Eve' by Chris Ullens

Izzy-Bizu--'Adam-&-Eve'-by-Chris-Ullens

Chris Ullens seems to have combined nearly everything&nbsp;he likes in this video for Satin Jackets&#39; Shine On You featuring Esser - a holiday to Italy with his&nbsp;wife&nbsp;Jade Bogue, a Super 8 camera, and (of course, as this is Chris Ullens) rather a lot of frame-by-frame animation.And the result is delightful, because there is nothing quite like&nbsp;the timeless&nbsp;glow of a Kodachrome-captured summer...&nbsp; &nbsp;

Belgium

Fawnda Denham

Eskimo Recordings

Alt-dance, Dance

Satin Jackets Feat. Esser 'Shine On You' by Chris Ullens

Satin-Jackets-Feat.-Esser-'Shine-On-You'-by-Chris-Ullens

With a sprinkling of gold dust and an army of drummers, Sasha Rainbow shoots the promo for Children Of The Universe by new artist Molly Smitten-Downes - penned by the singer, and the UK&#39;s entry for&nbsp;Eurovision 2014 on Saturday&nbsp;(May 10th)...&nbsp;

Sasha Rainbow

Nice & Polite

Matt Frost

Gareth Munden

Kole Onis

Stephanie Kevers

Lisa Fensome

Jennie Roberts

Oliver Vaughn

Kiri Mellalieu

Grace Joel

Matthew McKinnon

Family Editing

Ned Al-Astrabadi

Happy Finish

Warner Music

Alan Parks

Molly Smitten-Downes 'Children Of The Universe' by Sasha Rainbow

MOLLY SMITTEN-DOWNES - Children of the Universe

London Grammar&#39;s gorgeously atmospheric Hey Now gets an equally gorgeously atmospheric treatment from promo director Chris Ullens.Hugely watchable, a&nbsp;forest comes alive at night courtesy of some tasty animation and VFX, and as the track escalates, string artist&nbsp;Sebastien Preschoux unveils a stunning display of his craft as balls of string and light play amongst the trees...

Sebastien Preschoux

Cadi Catlow

Ben Magahy

Ciaran Beale

Holborn Studios

Denny Cooper

James Dooley

Jonathan Hicks

Andy Barnard

 Carl Grinter

Ministry of Sound

Caroline Clayton

Electronica

London Grammar 'Hey Now' by Chris Ullens

London Grammar - Hey Now  (Official Video)

Franck Trebillac&nbsp;casts a group of pensioners to star in his promo for The Unholy Hand by LA punk rockers&nbsp;The Bronx.These elderly gents mean business as they stage a drag race around their neighbourhood&nbsp;- on mobility scooters...

Franck Trebillac

Soup Factory

Andy Soup

Thomas English

Y-i London

Mark Hollowinianishnu

Andy Pinkney

Ben Oliver

Ed Tucker

PIAS

Hardcore Punk

The Bronx 'The Unholy Hand' by Franck Trebillac

The-Bronx--'-The-Unholy-Hand'-by-Franck-Trebillac

Placing Devlin and Wretch 32&#39;s explosive performances (and a very neat shadow and smoke effect) against a backdrop of a grimy London underworld, Messrs. Filmed this dark and brooding promo at a creepy derelict mill on the banks of the Thames...

Messrs London

Ali McNally

Kole @ Suz Cruz

Bibi Lacroix

Vanessa Whyte

Arran Shearing

Tim Craig

Sol Sahaiti

Ralph Fuller

Saam Hodivala

Dan Moran

Barna

Johnny Fairburn

Work Editorial

Devlin ft Wretch 32 'Off With Their Heads' by Messrs.

Giorgio Bruni and Toby Ross-Southall capture Dot JR and crew at work and at play in and around London for the promo to My Way. 
Dot JR is the latest signing to Tinie Tempah's Disturbing London imprint.

Giorgio Bruni &amp; To

Sol Saih

Glassworks

Kelly @ Panalux, Dumi &amp; Nina @ Disturbing London

Emily Tedrake

Ben Rogers

Dot JR ft Sincere & Gfrsh 'My Way' by Giorgio Bruni & Toby Ross-Southall

Wizard-Sleeve’s-Get-Down-Tonight-by-Thomas-Goldser

Dot-JR-ft-Sincere-&-Gfrsh-'My-Way'-by-Giorgio-Bruni-&-Toby-Ross-Southall

Directing duo Messrs - aka Girgio Bruni and Toby Ross-Southall - keep it real with their inner city and street vibe-style promo for Benny Banks' lyric-spitting Bada Bing

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=ZcCq_QgKKW8

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