I’ve seen Pat Smith’s music video “Moving Along” before, but I never would have guessed that it had been directly influenced by the “Pink Elephants” sequence in Dumbo. Pat talks about being inspired by the Disney film and shows clips from both works in this blog post.

This music video, Ankle Injury by British alternative musicians Fujiya & Miyagi, was directed by Wade Shotter of UK’s Factory Films.

CG — or stop-mo of actual dice? Discuss.

Can animation exist in real time? Without film, without video, without digital tricks… this is the opening ceremony for football’s Asian Cup and these are apparently workers for Samsung in South Korea. Pretty amazing…

(Thanks, Rob Carroll)

Simple concept, executed with style and humor—that’s “Promesas,” a music video for the Chilean band Los Mono, produced by Santiago, Chile-based motion graphics house Smog. Animators on the piece were Moises Arancibia, Pablo Gonzalez, Andres Rodriguez and Luis Suarez.

(via Feed by way of Thinking Animation Blog)

A new JibJab video made its debut tonight. No animation, but a clever video montage to commemorate our Independence Day holiday, The Star Spangled Banner.

M.I.A.’s new music video “Boyz” is a brilliant mashup of contemporary Jamaican dance and lo-fi abstract animation. It’s easily one of the more original and exciting animated music videos that I’ve seen in a while. The animation is not simply an afterthought here but really serves to bring out the colorful style and energy of the dancers, who according to this ‘making of’ video, comprise a who’s who of the Jamaican dance scene. Comparisons have been drawn to Paper Rad though personally I find the graphic style far more successful in the context of this video than I do in most of Paper Rad’s work. Not sure who’s responsible for the animation; the live-action video was directed by Jay Will.

(via BB)

This a bit disturbing - but I like it.

A new music video from UK punk bank The Horrors, She’s The New Thing, Directed by Corin Hardy.

Here is some nice eye candy. This music video by Faithless, which I believe premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last week, for a Coca Cola marketing operation (Coke’s M5 project), is dazzling. French designers Sara Prince, Pierre Marie, the animator Emmanuel Linderer conceived it. Paranoid NOW, a group of designers, animators, directors and graphic artists, led by Sophie Gateau and François Vogel, produced it.

Check out the video here and great behind-the-scenes info here.