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TAG FOR “Music Videos”Cartoon Brew's home for up-to-the-minute, unedited announcements and press releases direct from industry sources.
September 25, 2011 4:45 am
French animator Caroline Attia lends her incredible style and color design to American songwriter Jim Bianco’s song about a bored secretary with a wild imagination. 5 Comments » posted in Music Videos, Caroline Attia, Jim Bianco September 21, 2011 1:37 pm
Adrien Merigeau (co-director of Old Fangs) created this engimatic music video for the Irish band The Villagers and their song “Cecelia and Her Selfhood.” He made the film at his Dublin-based studio andmapsandplans. Merigeau is also the art director of The lyrics are a bit confusing if you take them at face value and appear to suggest murdering petty vandals, but that’s not the case according to the Villagers frontman Conor O’Brien: “I called it ‘Cecilia and Her Selfhood’ because I wanted to show the sister who ends up destroying the statue, I wanted the sister to represent the inner wicked of Cecilia herself, so it’s almost like someone destroying herself…like an analogy of that.” (Thanks, Tomm Moore) 14 Comments » posted in Music Videos, Stop Motion, Adrien Merigeau, Cartoon Saloon, Eimhin McNamara, Ireland September 18, 2011 12:05 am
Check out all the eye candy in this music video featuring Ukrainian pop singer Jamala (aka Susana Jamaladinova). “Smile” was directed by top Ukraine video maker Max Xenda, and combines live action with miniatures and stop-mo puppet animation, designed by art director Vlad Ryzhikov. Click here for behind-the-scenes footage, and some nice photos of Jamala. (Thanks, Eric Graff) 6 Comments » posted in Music Videos, Jamala, Max Xenda September 14, 2011 8:49 am
Every so often I run across a piece of animation that’s truly special. “Countdown” by Céline Desrumaux is one such piece. The short, which took over two years to make, is quite simply a masterpiece of composition, cutting, color and design. Céline, whose work experience include Passion Pictures and Cartoon Network UK, uses the malleable nature of film to express her vision: the film is narrative and the ideas pictorial, yet many of the compositions and shots would appear to be completely abstract if not for their sequential context. In other words, it’s a graphic experience that takes advantage of the animation medium and could make sense only as a film. Her stated influences for the film are Chris Ware, Hans Richter, Len Lye, Stanley Kubrick and Godfrey Reggio’s Qatsi trilogy. In the years to come, I’m sure a lot of people will be citing her own film Countdown as an influence. CREDITS (via Catsuka) 30 Comments » posted in Experimental, Music Videos, Apparat, Céline Desrumaux, UK September 14, 2011 7:36 am
Eric Power’s music video for Wiretree’s song “The Shore” is a colorful lo-fi piece made with underlit tissue paper and black cardstock. 7 Comments » posted in Music Videos, cut-out, Cutout, Eric Power, Wiretree September 13, 2011 12:05 am
UK based Ian Stevenson is a cartoonist disguised as an “artist”. Whatever he calls himself, I like what he does. Here’s one of his groovy music videos from a few years ago. This’ll put you in a good mood: CREDITS 7 Comments » posted in Music Videos, Ian Stevenson, UK September 9, 2011 6:30 am
Gosh, I really like the vibe from this sweet little hand drawn music video for Andrew Belle’s song The Ladder – produced and directed by Emily Wormley. (Thanks, Jeremy Grant) 2 Comments » posted in Music Videos, Emily Wormly August 26, 2011 10:40 pm
Last May, we posted Peter Lowey’s short Sidewalk Scribble, which was an entry in the Annecy animation festival’s YouTube contest. The film went on to win first prize in the Annecy contest, and Lowey’s rewards were trips to both Annecy and Los Angeles. Lowey, who runs Piepants Animation in Melbourne, just wrapped a music video for Art vs. Science’s “With Thought.” In the video, he illustrates a challenging concept—human thought—which he portrays graphically as a billowy, mutating object that stems from individuals but also forms a collective consciousness. Like a cloud, the abstract form occasionally resolves itself into recognizable imagery before returning to its ethereal state. It’s an elegant piece of animated filmmaking that serves the music well. CREDITS |
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