Executive Producer

Randi Wilens

Tess Lafia visualises&nbsp;singer-songwriter Madeline The Person's song about being fed up with her stoner boyfriend in a charming mix of&nbsp;animation with live action.&nbsp;The video for Why I Broke Up With You interweaves a stop-motion narrative featuring the strained relationship and broken promises within the setting of a doll's house,&nbsp;with Madeline's deadpan performance.[imgtoken data:1]This is a beautifully realised piece of work, which balances glossy beauty shots with quite a raw, grimy aesthetic in the narrative, and perfectly realises the themes in the track.&nbsp;At the end of the concept, Madeline celebrates her freedom and the next stage of her life, having chucked out her weed-obsessed&nbsp;boyfriend. He is just too wasted to protest...

Cleo Camp

Tess Lafia

Kane Lafia

Taytum Blake

Noah Deats

Mirror Films

Devin Sarno

Bamba Kimball

Eric Barrett

Beau Lyon @ Company 3

Warner Music Group

OB Management

Madeline The Person 'Why I Broke Up With You' by Tess Lafia

Madeline-The-Person-'Why-I-Broke-Up-With-You'-by-Tess-Lafia

He's probably best known for his remarkable works of handdrawn animated psychedelia for alternative and rock artists like <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2012/02/16/bonobo-eyesdown-machinedrum-remix-anthony-f-scheppard/11885" target="_blank">Bonobo</a> and Ape School, but Philly-based animator Anthony F. Scheppard makes a confident stride into mainstream pop for James Arthur's team-up with Ty Dolla $ign, without compromising his distinctive style.

United Kingdom

Anthony Schepperd

Jori Teplitzky

Taik Lee

Carolee Karpell

Ian Foster

Francis Amisola

Puks Phadke

Amelie Swann

Hip Hop

James Arthur & Ty Dolla $ign ft. Shotty Horroh 'Treehouse' by Anthony F. Scheppard 

James Arthur & Ty Dolla $ign feat. Shotty Horroh - Treehouse

Superstar DJ Steve Aoki seems to be enjoying a peaceful moment as Jimmy Ahlander and&nbsp;Robin Antiga&#39;s video for Lie To Me begins. But there&#39;s a surprise in store.Ahlander and Antiga&nbsp;have created a photorealistic virtual Aoki, who changes to reveal further identities - an older version of himself in the form of a statue; and then finally stripped back to reveal the android identity within. And is this his real self all along?

United States

Jimmy Ahlander

Robin Antiga

Goodcompany

Pixeltown

Trevor Potts

Scissor Films

Steve Aoki

Ultra Records

Steve Aoki ft. Ina 'Lie To Me' by Jimmy Ahlander & Robin Antiga

Steve-Aoki-Feat.-Ina-'Lie-To-Me'-by-Jimmy-Ahlander-&-Robin-Antiga

Animator Steve Mertens has created this enchanting, elaborate&nbsp;animated world&nbsp;for Chicago-based pop band&nbsp;Louis The Child&#39;s track It&#39;s Strange, which features&nbsp;singer&nbsp;K. Flay as our lead&nbsp;protagonist.It sees the singer going on an adventure through an ultra-vibrant world, casually meandering around under the sea, navigating fiery underground pits of doom like it&#39;s nothing, and&nbsp;riding on butterflies among other fantastical things. And as&nbsp;she sings about her newly-found love,&nbsp;intricately drawn creatures such as a beautifully coloured dragon wind through&nbsp;the clouds to the beat of the music.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Steven Mertens

RW Media

Valentina Vistoli

Ultra

Louis The Child ft. K. Flay 'It's Strange' by Steven Mertens

Louis-The-Child-Ft.-K.-Flay-'It's-Strange'-by-Steven-Mertens

Chelmsford-native Rat Boy&#39;s dance-pop single Move has been paired with this awesome stop-motion animated video made by&nbsp;Dillon Markey.In it, we&nbsp;follow a&nbsp;skater&nbsp;through hollywood as he gets chased by ninjas, fighting his way out of close calls and zigzagging effortlessly through the city. It&#39;s a fitting aesthetic for the hip-hop influenced track, with a grinning&nbsp;protagonist that perfectly embodies&nbsp;the&nbsp;giddy&nbsp;defiance of the song.

Dillon Markey

Sam Seager

Parlophone/warner Bros.

Rat Boy 'Move' by Dillon Markey

Rat-Boy--'Move'-by-Dillon-Markey

Following up his ghoulish transformation in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/10/29/panic-disco-emperors-new-clothes-daniel-cloud-campos" target="_blank">Emperor&#39;s New Clothes</a>, Brendan Urie gets back in&nbsp;into his usual dapper suit&nbsp;look for Death Of A Bachelor, a heavily&nbsp;Frank Sinatra inspired video.An expertly shot performance video with a&nbsp;noir aesthetic, it sees Urie charm&nbsp;and dazzle us on stage,&nbsp;showing off his impressive vocal range and swoon-worthy&nbsp;stage presence.&nbsp;Who knew Brendon Urie had so much Sinatra in him?

Scantron

Mel Soria

Panic! At The Disco 'Death Of A Bachelor' by Scantron & Mel Soria

Panic!-At-The-Disco--'Death-Of-A-Bachelor-'-by-Scantron-&-Mel-Soria

Calum Macdiarmid has directed this stirring, beautiful film for Melody Gardot&rsquo;s new single Preacherman &ndash; taken from her forthcoming album The Current Man &ndash;&nbsp;&nbsp;inspired by the racially motivated murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy who was killed in 1955, 60 years ago this August.Emmett Till&#39;s murder became a seminal event in 20th century American history, many believing it contributed to the start of the American civil rights movement, and the video was made in association with the Emmet Till Legacy Foundation, which educates young children about racism in the United States.Calum Macdiarmid does proper justice to the&nbsp;tragic story by employing a&nbsp;sensitive&nbsp;and compassionate angle with his direction.&nbsp;

Calum Macdiarmid

Tim Francis

Jonathon Ker

Great Guns

Annie Hanlon

Sheridan Thomas

Sy Turnbull

James Demetriou

Glassworks

Cynthia Lole

Decca Records

Amile Wilson

Dugal Macdiarmid

Matt Hare

Melody Gardot 'Preacherman' by Calum Macdiarmid

Melody-Gardot-''preacherman''-by-Calum-Macdiarmid

Shot in the Mojave desert and beautifully captured by DP&nbsp;Todd Banhazl, Jimmy Ahlander and Robin Antiga&#39;s allegorical&nbsp;promo for Smashing Pumpkins&#39; Drum&nbsp;&amp; Fife sees a group of kids armed with catapults and a drum, playing war&nbsp;in the dunes - but then mysteriously and cruelly&nbsp;subjected to a real mortar attack.

Brian Welsh

Good Company

George Nessis

Todd Banhazl

Sean Fazende

Cut+Run

Kevin Cannon

Prehistoric Digital

Lock It In

Indie

Rock

Smashing Pumpkins 'Drum & Fife' by Jimmy Ahlander & Robin Antiga

Smashing-Pumpkins-'Drum-&-Fife'-by-Jimmy-Ahlander,-Robin-Antiga

Chris Lenox Smith, member of animation team Mixtape Club, went solo with this great video for Primus's Lee Van Cleef. The song is all about the actor who was a legendary Western bad guy, and Clint Eastwood's nemesis in The Good The Bad &amp; The Ugly. And in Chris's video, LVC is back - from the dead - and he wants one more duel in the sun. 
Its in the distinctive style of Mixtape Club vids like My Morning Jacket's <a href="http://chrislenoxsmith.com/my-morning-jacket-touch-me-im-gonna-scream-part-2.html" target="_blank">Touch Me I'm Gonna Scream</a>, and you can check out the process how it was made <a href="http://primusleevancleef.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. "Animated zombie western, what's not to love Big ups to Les and ATO for letting me run wild with this one," says Chris.
This came out in May, and has now been added to the Official Selection of the Ottawa 2012 International Animation Festival.

Chris Lenox Smith

Mixtape Club

Bruce Moreau

Primus 'Lee Van Cleef' by Chris Lenox Smith

Primus-'Lee-Van-Cleef'-by-Chris-Lenox-Smith

Nick Peterson's hard-hitting, take-no-prisoners video for US rockers Five Finger Death Punch's Coming Down tackles the disturbing modern phenomenon of cyber-bullying and 'suicide blogs' - and has racked up over 350,000 hits on YouTube in just five days.
With strong performances from the teens who seal a suicide pact - played by Samantha Gill and Leland Montgomery - the video skilfully weaves the source of their despair with different potential scenarios, and also includes a brilliant animated sequence. Nick is an animator himself - his marvellous video for Tweak Bird's <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2010/02/02/bug-17-tweak-bird%E2%80%99s-the-bones-by-nicholas-peterson/" target="_blank">The Bones</a> being a good example of his work - but the sequence here is by the prodigiously talented Anthony Scheppard, producing a no-holds barred depiction of the psychological cruelty they suffer. 

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=ptzzU7jFQwo
Nick Peterson on making the video for Five Finger Death Punch's Coming Down
"I did a lot of research into the stories and patterns of teen suicide because I wanted to make this video as authentic as possible and have it be a road map for both parents and teens going down this path of destruction. I also wanted to give an answer of hope, and show people that we can save lives if we just look out for these warning signs and do something about it before it's too late. 
"The violence in the beginning of the video was used, not only to shock people and hook them, but to also establish that this will happen to your son and daughter if action is not taken by the friends and family of the teen. These kids are depressed and feel there is no hope for them, and it's our job as family and friends to give them that hope and love.

"The animation was designed to get into the minds of the teen and show the level of the fear kids have when they are being bullied. The horror and graphic destruction of their bodies by the monsters is exaggerated to hit the audience in the gut hard to help them understand the mortal fear bullies can put into the victim.
"I was having a difficult time figuring out the ending of the video. I knew what I wanted but as unsure how to get there. While interviewing Samantha Gill the actress who played the teen girl, the answer fell right into my lap. She told me a story of how she almost killed herself. She was depressed. She was a cutter, (She showed me the deep scar on her body) and heavily into drugs/alcohol. She made a plan, deleted her myspace page, cleaned her room, bought herself a new dress, and planned to jump from the roof of her building. 
"I asked her what stopped her and she said, 'Out of the blue, my Grandma came to visit me, and I saw it as a sign that I should live.' Just that simple act of her grandmother coming to visit showed her that someone out there did love her and she decided to live. She never told her grandmother or her family about this any of this. She was 13 years old."

Gas&Electric

Producer

Chris Saul

CJ Miller

Yi London

Five Finger Death Punch 'Coming Down' by Nick Peterson

Five-Finger-Death-Punch-'Coming-Down'-by-Nick-Peterson

Helena Bonham-Carter shines as the lonesome librarian being left on the bookshelf in Phil Andelman's video for Rufus Wainwright's charming Out Of The Game.
But it's Rufus who gets to ham it up playing three characters who get up to all sorts of shenanigans in the reading room - the London Zoo library, no less... 

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=6KvTDeHlIfI

Phil Andelman

Partizan Darkroom

Phil Tidy

Jeff Pantaleo

Brett Webb

Will Bex

Anna Rhodes

Emma Lamp

Carol Hemmings

Maxime Pozzi

Aubrey Woodiwiss

production

Rufus Wainwright 'Out Of The Game' by Phil Andelman

Rufus-Wainwright-'Out-Of-The-Game'-by-Phil-Andelman

Neon Trees get to star in their own movie at the local Drive-In in Paul Boyd's infectious and beautifully retro clip for the band's rousing new single Everybody Talks.

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