Gaffer

Max Halstead

Following his previous work for BRONSON, Bastille and the BBC's coverage of last year's Winter Olympics, Balázs Simon now pushes the boundaries in animation further with his remarkable work&nbsp;for US electronica duo Odesza.The video for Light Of Day - a track with plaintive vocals by&nbsp;Ólafur Arnalds - introduces us to a hunched figure, emerging from a cave: he is a very old man, robed in furs, who surveys&nbsp;the remote, hostile, freezing mountainous world around him.&nbsp;On a distant peak a golden light is visible. And the old man begins to set off, on the impossible&nbsp;journey to reach that&nbsp;light. - an unfeasible task, due to the hostility of the terrain.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]This magical tale, a life-affirming parable of the benefit of fortitude and on the cyclical nature of Life itself, is given great depth by its hugely impressive and innovative execution. It takes the form of an animated painting, where the 2D nature of the image is continually developing, and the old man's progress is expressed through the application of painterly digital brushstrokes. This is an aesthetic style that really works as the underlying movement of the figure is essentially realistic.<blockquote>I wanted to harness the immersive qualities of 3D animation, but also make it more painterly.</blockquote>Simon achieved this very distinctive and poignant visual piece through a combination of&nbsp;live action, motion capture, 2D and 3D animation.&nbsp;To create an immersive world, the environments were crafted in 3D with painterly 2D brushstrokes applied. The character’s movement was recorded via motion capture and real life elements were shot to complement the 3D environment, heightening the sense of realism.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]"I was fascinated by the idea of this very old character who gets rejuvenated in a sense during his struggle to experience something magical," says&nbsp;Balazs Simon. &nbsp;"This film is about focussing on the values of life, and not giving in to the pressures we face each day. I wanted to harness the immersive qualities of 3D animation, but also make it more painterly than usual. The result is a mixture of hand-painted backgrounds, in-camera effects, motion capture - and tens of thousands of algorithmic brush strokes in each frame!"&nbsp;Like the old man's journey to the top of the mountain, it is a brilliant achievement - and rather magical too.

United States

Beattie Hartley

Bea Egyed

György Fábos

Barcsay Marcell

Dániel Szabó

Balázs Simon

Sunnyside Animation

Máté Barbalics

Blinkink

Josef Byrne

Alex Halley

Brin Frost

Szilard Totszegi

Róbert Erdélyi

Gyar

András Piroska

Electronica

Odesza ft Ólafur Arnalds 'Light Of Day' by Balázs Simon

Odesza-'Light-Of-Day'-by-Balazs-Simon

The ninth and final episode from the Gorillaz' Song Machine series, and arguably Jamie Hewlett and co-directors Tim MCourt and Max Taylor have saved the best to last.If finding Elton John in cartoon form in Episode 7 was a surprise - how about his namesake Leee getting top billing as an angry sea monster, laying waste to a precious piece of Gorillaz history?The video for The Lost Chord is undoubtedly the most spectacular of the nine videos for the Song Machine album, but it is also in keeping with the rest of the series, particularly in exploring the increasing vulnerability of the previously devilish Murdoc. He has definitely met his match here, with the former frontman of 80s pop-soul outfit Imagination playing a chained Neptune-like creature who invades the band's poignant return&nbsp;to a now-desolate Plastic Beach with a momentous temper tantrum.&nbsp;This has been a brilliant series. As a body of work its as as good as anything in the Gorillaz canon. It's a real achievement by a consistent team of animators who have worked throughout the series. And the comic genius of Jamie Hewlett is still a bit underrated.&nbsp;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Jamie Hewlett

Tim McCourt

Max Taylor

Eva Dahlqvist

The Line

Samia Ahmed

Lisa A. Smith

Venla Linna

Lewis Crossfield

Time Based Arts

Natalie Steiner

Tom Kelly

Luke Goodrich

Toby Goodyear

Benjy Kirkman

Jim Agnew

William Pope

Catherine Ladd

Natasha Lawes

Bethan Adams Stringer

Bernie Varela

Soul

Rock

Gorillaz ft Leee John 'The Lost Chord' (Ep. 9) by Jamie Hewlett, Tim McCourt and Max Taylor

Gorillaz - The Lost Chord ft. Leee John (Episode Nine)

There&#39;s no getting around it - Armageddon has happened. That&#39;s what we&#39;re presented with in Elliot Dear&#39;s new video for Jon Hopkins: the consequences of an event that has left the world in ruins, denuded of Life.Only, in Dear&#39;s beautifully constructed table-top version of a post-Apocalyptic nightmare, there is a tiny bit of hope - or rather a seed.

Elliot Dear

James Bretton

Sandy Liddle

Simon Cartwright

Stephen McNally

Dan Gill

Steve Warne

Magdalena Bieszczak

Emma-Rose Dade

Dance

Alternative

Jon Hopkins 'Feel First Life' by Elliot Dear

Jon Hopkins - Feel First Life (Official Video)

Everybody&#39;s doing live videos these days - even Gorillaz.Well, almost. The gang is back as&nbsp;Gorillaz director/co-creator Jamie Hewlett and director Nicos Livesey at have teamed up once again&nbsp;to create the world&rsquo;s most famous virtual band&rsquo;s first ever performance video, for Tranz.In classic Gorillaz style it seamlessly fuses different forms of animation and graphic styles into one seamless whole, with very trippy and supercool results. So trippy, in fact, it may have confused the guys at Blinkink, who say &quot;We captured the band performing against green screen&quot;... Perhaps it was live after all.&nbsp;&nbsp;Nicos Livesey is known for creating innovative animation techniques incorporating physical mediums, such as the tapestry embroidery for this year&rsquo;s BBC World Cup trailer, and the old-school claymation of his &ldquo;Glore&rdquo; video for US punk band Radkey. He and Blinkink worked with Parisian animation house Eddy to get 2D, Murdoc (or his cousin), Noodle and Russel to take the unusual step of actually playing&nbsp;their instruments...&nbsp;

Nicos Livesey

Georgina Fillmore

Bart Yates

Stella Ramsden

Paul Moth

Warner Brothers

Indie

Gorillaz 'Tranz' by Jamie Hewlett And Nicos Livesey

Gorillaz-'Tranz'-by-Jamie-Hewlett-And-Nicos-Livesey

Blink Art illustrators and now directing duo Essy May and Stevie Gee release their directorial debut for heavy metal behemoths Mastodon&#39;s latest single Steambreather.Directing the live action and 2D animation May and Gee&nbsp;have created a promo that tells the story of two Mastodon fans in bland English suburbia,&nbsp;who stumble across a &#39;Deep Nasal Enlightenment&#39; breathing workshop. Things gradually start to get weird as the &#39;Breath of Life&#39; class begins to spell &#39;Death&#39; for the unsuspecting audience. And then things get very trippy indeed.

Stevie Gee

Essy May

Hugo Donkin

Blink Art

Ben Honour

Ruaidhri Ryan

Ed Tucker

Beau Scott

Cleo Vogler

Ben Skyrme

Brin Frost, Cha Cha Cha Vintage

Roz Gomersall

Jack Williams

Jonny Tully

Smoke & Mirrors

Helen Parker

Andy Salem

Theo Nunn

Devin Sarno

Warner Bros. Records

Mastodon 'Steambreather' by Essy May & Stevie Gee

Mastodon-'Steambreather-'-by-Essy-May-&-Stevie-Gee

In an ambitious project for Village Green Recordings&#39; album Salvation - which showcases the music of eight composers signed to the label - Noah Harris and Andy Biddle take us on a voyage through time and nothing less than the history of mankind, though the mesmerising animation of found objects.&nbsp;It&#39;s actually a sequence of interconnecting films, each one representing a track and composer from the album, that can be savoured individually on <a href="http://salvation-project.tv/" target="_blank">the Salvation project website</a>. But they also come together to tell an epic story of evolution, and the story is told from objects that have been salvaged from car-boot sales and flea markets around London, as <a href="https://vimeo.com/199691799" target="_blank">the making of film</a> shows.From the birth of a planet in ELEMENT, the growth of the human race in SENTIENCE, and its descent towards the inevitable in OBLIVION, it&#39;s animated entirely in camera, and&nbsp;showcase Noah Harris&rsquo;s unwavering attention to detail and love of physical objects.

Noah Harris

Andy Biddle

Alli Albion

Toby Howell

Craig Atkinson

Luke George

Aldo Camilleri

Robin Crowley

Will Vincent

Max Windows

Homespun

Nineteen Twenty

Ludo Fealy

Duncan Russell

Freefolk

Instrumental

Village Green 'Salvation' by Noah Harris & Andy Biddle

Noah Harris has created an extraordinary vision and arguably pushed stopmotion animation into new territory (or new dimension) with his hugely imaginative and borderline-bonkers video for Julio Bashmore&#39;s Peppermint.Noah has utilized 3D printing to conjure up his distinctive universe, of a female figure that develops from drawing to solid form bound to a solid earth, and other while above the hands of a deity - clapping out the house beats - also proffers peppermint liquid to the female, and other&nbsp;forms and objects below.And that only describes one part of it. You could pretty much interpret the meaning of this&nbsp;anyway you like.&nbsp;Most importantly, Noah uses stopmotion - and 2D animation &ndash; to create&nbsp;a fantastic, elemental, highly original piece of work.&nbsp;

Colonel Blimp

Debbie Crosscup

Rob Wildsmith

Gerrell Saunders

Stripeland

Stitch Editing

Aubrey Woodiwiss

Electric Theatre Collective

Prodigious

Nineteentwenty

Cherry Cherry TV

Blind Pig

EightVFX

Glassworks

Nathan James Tettey

Caroline Clayton

Julio Bashmore ft Jessie Ware 'Peppermint' by Noah Harris

It may not be a music promo, but the appearance of a sequel to Don&#39;t Hug Me I&#39;m Scared, Joseph Pelling and Becky Sloan&#39;s brilliant hipster/slacker reimagining of a pre-school kids TV show, arrives like manna from heaven to dispel the early January blues.So prepare for brilliant design and animation and bone-dry humour, as&nbsp;the subject matter of Don&#39;t Hug Me I&#39;m Scared: 2&nbsp;is a tad&nbsp;bleak. It&#39;s about Time. Which leads the talking clock to sing a song that leaves our little group with no illusions about where we&#39;re all heading. Well, there&#39;s no point keeping it from the kiddies, is there?

Becky & Joe

Blink

Ben Lole

Thomas Bolwell

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: 2 by Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: 2

Shot over one day in one of the oldest churches in London, De La Muerte&#39;s second&nbsp;promo for Lulu James sees the singer play a &#39;modern day goddess in the church of love&#39;.An homage to the four elements of earth, water, fire and air, the De La Muerte ladies examine the role of the female in classic mythology and blend&nbsp;ancient iconography with modern styling.&nbsp;With some skillful editing from Mike Taylor, the visuals are in perfect sync with the beat of the track, creating a delicious hypnotic effect...

De La Muerte

Burning Reel

Cal Gordon

Dan Gibling

Stephen Price

Jonathan Tubb

Bethan Hall Williams

Reece Hearnshaw

Jenny Ray

Jo Shippen

Sophie Cox

Renda Attia

Benji Weeratunge

Mike Tyler

Theresa Crooks

Molinaire

Marisa Garner Associates

Sony Music

Lisa Foo

Lulu James 'Step By Step' by De La Muerte

Keaton Henson has made lovely, devastatingly sad visual accompaniments to his achingly melancholic music before - and that's exactly the case with his video for Small Hands. It just happens that Joseph Mann has picked up the baton from David Wilson to become Keaton's new collaborator, and has created something stunning with his first ever music video: the cruelty of nature (and man) told via a meticulously recreated version of the natural world...
Joseph has handcrafted a forest inhabited by a range of puppet creatures, with the help of master puppeteers Jonny Sabbagh &amp; Will Harper, and Keaton himself. Jonny designed the puppet animals with Keaton - who was working as an illustrator before his music career took off. Then Joseph has brought them to life - before many of them suffer a terrible Keaton Henson-style fate. 
Joseph, who graduated from the Glasgow School of Art, has worked on several projects with David Wilson, including sequences of the Skream video for Listenin To The Records On My Wall a couple of years ago. Now directing in his own right, he recently completed an eight month project for The International Exchange. And now this outstanding debut video: it's beautiful - and heartbreaking. After all, it is Keaton Henson. 
"As soon as I heard the track I was sold on the idea of making the video," says Joseph. "And working with Keaton was very collaborative from the word go. We bounced a few things around and agreed on creating something set in the woods. He did a few drawings and we set off on our way into the forest. From there I came up with the idea to 'make, then break' three animal couples relationships in half. It felt right for the song and I have all ways loved owls and underground burrows so it felt good.
"I had just over two weeks to design and build six sets - cobbled together from a mixture of whatever I could get my hands on - with a lovely team of people. Jonny &amp; Will had the same amount of time to build all the puppets. They are two of the most talented people I have ever met - in fact they blow my mind. 
"We shot for three days breathing in way too much fake smoke. We had a great time making a huge amount of mess whilst Jonny and Will had all sorts of things falling into their laps under the set: water, baby oil and plenty of soil. They didn't complain once. Making this video was seriously good fun. I hope it shows."

Joseph Mann

Blinkart

Bart Y

Joseph Mann, Tamsin Glasson, James Bretton

Clapham Road Studios

Joely Brammer, Rose Popham, Emma Den

Simone Ghilardotti

Simone Ghilardotti & Josh Hine

Steve G

Keaton Henson 'Small Hands' by Joseph Mann

Keaton-Henson-'Small-Hands'-by-Joseph-Mann

Chris Hemming totally gets into the retro spirit of Brit-rockers The Winter Olympics' ode to the 90's with this exciting and wacky promo.
With lots of references to that decade including Furbies and dodgy indie bands, it's the nod to the greatness and much-missed Chart Show (even using their trademark inane captions) that brings a tear to the eye...

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