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Toucan Boy&nbsp;navigates the scorching and&nbsp;parched streets of Paris searching for water to bring the city&nbsp;back to life, in Plastic Horse's&nbsp;colourful animation for Ramo.Park chairs melt, bollards wilt and tree trunks lay across dry earth as skeletal birds watch on from orange chimney pots above - and there's a very droopy Eiffel Tower - until Ramo the Toucan spies a super-sized baseball cap full of cool, fresh water.Plastic Horse's clean illustration style is used to very&nbsp;good effect here - good to have the London animation studio&nbsp;back in the world of music videos.

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Ramo ft Loïc Fleury 'La Saison Des Pluies' by Plastic Horse

Ramo-Feat.-Loïc-Fleury-'La-Saison-Des-Pluies'-by-Plastic-Horse

Plastic Horse&#39;s marvellous monochrome animation for Tenderlonious is a delicious noir tale of London nightlife, following&nbsp;Tender&#39;s trials and tribulations in getting paid his due from a greedy promoter.The Shakedown is the title track from Tenderlonious&rsquo;s debut album and features The 22archestra, a dream team of top talent, rounded-up after Tenderlonious was invited to record at Abbey Road Studios. The video follows the propulsive mood and narrative within the track. And it leaves it nicely hanging at the end...

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Tenderlonious ft The 22archestra 'The Shakedown' by Plastic Horse

Tenderlonious-'The-Shakedown'-by-Plastic-Horse

Animation duo Plastic Horse and&nbsp;Geoffrey Taylor have directed these fun visuals for&nbsp;Love Ssega&rsquo;s&nbsp;Pray For Love. The video&nbsp;provides&nbsp;a rhythmic patchwork as a backdrop for his performance, mirroring the diversity of his influences, which include&nbsp;New Wave, 80s hip-hop and NYC disco.

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Hometown Records

Sony Music

Love Ssega 'Pray For Love' by Plastic Horse & Geoffrey Taylor

After the unhinged surrealism of <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/07/03/crookers-able-maximize-plastic-horse" target="_blank">their video for Crookers&#39;&nbsp;Able To Maximize</a>,&nbsp;animation crew Plastic Horse now bring us the follow-up for Picture This, and another animation that is truly odd and rather wonderful.&nbsp;Wading through lemon juice and a tomato based sauce we follow our hero as he tries to escape that never-ending tunnel. Can he avoid being made into pizza again? Er, no.With this, the last one and their other recent&nbsp;video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/08/19/2-bears-money-man-plastic-horse" target="_blank">The 2 Bears&#39; Money Man</a>, Plastic Horse are firing on all cylinders. And there&#39;s another bonkers&nbsp;Crookers vid still to come...

Ciao Records

Crookers 'Picture This' by Plastic Horse

Crookers-'Picture-This'-by-Plastic-Horse

Following up the bizarre symbolism of <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/07/03/crookers-able-maximize-plastic-horse" target="_blank">Crookers&#39; Able To Maximize</a> was never going to be easy - but Dave and Max of Plastic Horse have managed it rather brilliantly for The 2 Bears&#39; Money Man.The sleazy and morally corrupt world of&nbsp;Western capitalism is represented as a huge machine,&nbsp;connecting the globe&#39;s sinister&nbsp;money men with some of our most notorious and sociopathic inhabitants - yes, we&#39;re talking Berlusconi, Blair, Putin... and the head of Boris Johnson. Fortunately,&nbsp;The 2 Bears are on hand to exact a measure of justice...

Southern Fried Records

The 2 Bears 'Money Man' by Plastic Horse

The-2-Bears-'Money-Man'-by-Plastic-Horse

Weird and surreal doesn&#39;t even begin to describe this animated video for Crookers&#39; Able To Maximize, created by animation team Plastic Horse.&nbsp;The lifeless body of a naked bearded man washes up on shore to be taken on a bull ride to encounter ever&nbsp;more wondrous, yet constantly creepy&nbsp;people: pipe-playing masked children, houmous-addicted beggars, and finally a pizza-maker....But the track itself is quite strange. Genuinely alternative &ndash; and&nbsp;to be continued...

Crookers 'Able To Maximize' by Plastic Horse

Crookers "Able To Maximize" Official Video

Plastic Horse are a very talented pair indeed. Based in Haggerston, they specialise in hand-drawn animation with a lovely textured feel. They seem to have a penchant for progressive beatmakers and have made promos for the likes of Crookers, Nochexxx, D&eacute;bruit and Lukid. And this is their second video for arguably the UK&rsquo;s most unique and progressive beatsmith Paul White, following The Doldrums last year, a surreal journey through underwater maths and swimming floppy disks.
With Street Lights Plastic Horse have taken their skills as animators to the next level, visualizing Detroit-based Danny Brown&rsquo;s hardhitting rap in an ever-changing stream of imagery, using a style which reflects street art from the beginnings of the hip-hop era. 
	Their aesthetic marries perfectly with Danny&rsquo;s leftfield rap style and Paul&rsquo;s dusty sound. Natalia Maus
How did your relationship with Paul&rsquo;s label, One-Handed come about?
It came about by simply contacting Alex Chase to say we&rsquo;d like to make him a video. He probably gets lots of e-mails like that and may get more now we&rsquo;ve said this but luckily he replied with some kind words and remembered us down the line. When &lsquo;Rapping with Paul White&rsquo; came out he messaged us and we ended up making the music video for Paul&rsquo;s track &lsquo;The Doldrums&rsquo;. That was our first collaboration.
Was there a brief for this video or were you given creative freedom?
We were given free reign to come up with an idea. Everyone just felt it would be nice to have Danny in the video in some way. We liked the idea of making this video feel connected to the last one we did and so tried to maintain that seamless ride through the scenes that gave the previous video it&rsquo;s character.
This track is a lot grittier and lyrically paints some bleak, dark pictures so that is why it made sense to rough up the images with layers of dirt and grain rather than use playful clean illustrations like last time.
Visually we tried to capture the darkness, things not being what they seem, forms distorting. Tales of Detroit remembered through a dream or nightmare, flicking in and out of adventures like an old light turning on and off. 
	We wanted Danny to feature in the same way&hellip; appearing and disappearing in the shadows like a ghostly narrator.
As a duo, what is your work process and how do you end up with these seamless visual journeys?
Usually we divide everything up pretty evenly. We start by transcribing the lyrics if there are any, or brainstorming around the atmosphere and feel of the track if it&rsquo;s instrumental. We then scribble out a storyboard and run it past whoever it&rsquo;s for, alongside some mocked up frames reflecting the final style.
Once this is approved, we draw out a list of what needs to be done and split it between us. Things do vary from time to time, sometimes one of us handles all the illustration and the other handles the animation but usually it&rsquo;s half and half. We tend to do edit and post together.
The seamless journeys have probably been quite a recent development. It is almost a bit of a challenge to try and animate your way between scenes rather than using cuts or fades. We started getting interested in that approach by watching amazing animations by Vince Collins and the unnerving and surreal quality it seems to offer.
Did you use any new techniques in this video that perhaps you haven&rsquo;t used before?
We&rsquo;ve been photographing surfaces and textures for a while now, building up an archive. This was the first time we&rsquo;d tried to animate them and work them into a video. We worked over the top of the final animation building and layering texture loops to degrade and eat into the illustrations.
Is it important for you to hand draw?
It&rsquo;s not really that important to hand draw, we just try to work in a style that suits the music. For us this track wouldn&rsquo;t have suited anything other than scrawly, dirty imagery. Even though it may feel hand made, our work is completely dependent on the computer and things don&rsquo;t come to life until they become pixelated. That&rsquo;s how we animate, colour and often draw.
Recently we&rsquo;ve been working on a number of projects using 3D software and mixing animation and video. Ideally we want to work in as many different styles and techniques as we can. Our ideas just seem to involve a lot of the human element at the moment.
What else are you up to at the minute?
We&rsquo;ve built about 10 minutes of animation for Nochexxx featuring all the tracks from his new album &lsquo;Thrusters&rsquo; and we&rsquo;re currently working on videos for The 2 Bears and The Heliocentrics which should all be surfacing in the next couple of months. We&rsquo;ve also just finished an animation for &lsquo;Pattern Power&rsquo; an event curated by Patternity celebrating stripes.

Paul White ft. Danny Brown ‘Street Lights’ by Plastic Horse

Paul White ft. Danny Brown - "Street Lights" (Official Music Video)

DIY champs Kotki Dwa's lead singer Alex finds himself accepting a Michelangelo-flavoured ice cream cone from a killer whale that clearly hasn't passed his ice-cream van-driving test, in the latest charmingly animated piece from David Gilbert and Maxim Lucas, aka Plastic Horse.
Mixing live action with pastel-bright wacky graphics, it follows Alex through psychedelic ordeals that revolve around a disobedient cornet that sprouts arms and legs. No, really. May induce brain-freeze. 

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

Kotki Dwa’s I Scream by Plastic Horse

Kotki-Dwa’s-I-Scream-by-Plastic-Horse

Lukid, Werk Disc's purveyor of terrifyingly hypnotic beats, has teamed up with Plastic Horse - that's David Lucas and Maxim Gilbert - in an attempt to document the plight of a band of magpies in their own attempt to build a new shiny fortress. 
"We had a good listen to the track - it sounded like a cacophony of mangled, marching, machine-like birds," note David and Max. "This sounded suitably horrible, so we got lots of cardboard and feathers and created this nightmare."
Its actually another corker from cut-out masters Plastic Horse, who's previous work includes the vids for Sam Sure &amp; Giacomo's <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2009/12/11/sam-sure-giacomo%E2%80%99s-what-do-they-know-by-plastic-horse/" target="_blank">What Do They Know</a> and Runnin' Round, and PRDCTV's <a href="" target="_blank">Metropolis</a>.

Lukid’s Stripes by Plastic Horse

Lukid’s-Stripes-by-Plastic-Horse

In the follow-up to their previous video <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2009/12/11/sam-sure-giacomo%E2%80%99s-what-do-they-know-by-plastic-horse/" target="_blank">What Do They Know</a>, Plastic Horse have built upon their signature style of what they call 'abstract normality', creating their own warped interpretation of the classic club video.
Or as David and Maxim describe it: "Sam Sure disobeys the desires of his inner organs, pumping them full of purple booze in a drink-fuelled bid to woo his ex..."

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