Hugh Mulhern directs a feverish hyper-pop fantasy for the return of Porter Robinson with his big new track Cheerleader, exploring the intense and unusual bond between the artist and his fans in a wonderfully off-kilter multi-media blockbuster. As with Mulhern's acclaimed videos for Hak Baker last year for Telephones 4 Eyes and Doolally, this is a captivating combination of formats - live action, AI animation, CGI and stop motion - in the telling of a supercharged narrative involving Porter's engagement with excitable superfans who take many different forms, but all share the same anime-style features of Porter's 'cheerleader'. From the moment of Porter's apparent creation of the song in a studio environment, to appearing on a TV screen, to that becoming the basis of a karaoke session, Mulhern esablishes a constant, breahtless intperly webether the artist and his cheerleaders - particularly the one masked girl who may be Potter's ultimate puppetmaster.Or maybe its the other way around? Porter becomes a Kong-like monster who destroys other versions of his greatest fan - including the cute stop motion puppet - as the action accelerates ever faster as it hops through different forms of animation, losing all basis in reality. "I wanted to make something that looked at extreme fandom and narcissism," explains Mulhern. "As we fall through different layers of reality I wanted the viewer to ask 'are we in the fantasies of the fans or in Porter’s own interpretation of their fantasies?'"While it’s specific to Porter’s experience as an artist it is as much about contemporary society's relationship with extreme individualism. If everyone is having their 15 minutes of fame does thatmean everyone has also become a super fan?"It's a masterclass in maximalism and also closely follows the subject of the song - effectively that symbiotic relationship between artist and fan. Mulhern has tapped into the hyperactive aesthetic of the subgenre, and created something that feels polished, elevated and unforgettable.

Live action collides with stop motion animation in this mesmerizing promo for Danny Brown - guest starring Bruiser Wolf - directed by Edem Wornoo and Claymation maestro William Child.The video for Y.B.P delves into the gritty realities and hurdles encountered by those navigating the streets of Detroit. Skilfully contrasting the artificial and the human, the video portrays Brown and Bruiser's shared journey growing up in Detroit’s inner city.Warnoo and Child have collaborated before, on the similarly gritty video for Big Zuu's Offline featuring JME and Novelist. That also combined animation and live action but this one takes things to a different level. Diving full-speed into Uncanny Calley territory, the video blends nostalgic, almost charming claymation craft with the artist's real performances which creates an unsettling yet enthralling atmosphere. Brown's and Bruiser's faces are composited onto their figurine bodies, and their lipsync given the appearance of being animated with judicious frame-cutting. While the innovative technique is established, and the focus stays on the rappers' performances, a familiar story of criminal activity unfolds around them.The drama of a small time robbery in Detroit is familiar - and low on thrills. Child's painstaking stop motion modelling and animation emphasises the grim reality, rather than the glamour, of the heist. All the better to reflect Brown and Wolf's depiction of their hometown. A brilliant collaboration between the directors and the artists, with a thought-provoking message.

Having created a remarkable video last year for The Smile, director duo Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña have now applied their incredible lifesize-scale stop motion animation style to a track from P J Harvey's forthcoming new album I Inside The Old Year Dying, with almost the same name.

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 ways in which they dispatch each other on a daily basis. 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 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 involving a psychopathic teddybear. This is rather more playful - as the animation was created with a series of non-moving 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...