Key Animator
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Aug 9, 2007, 8:08 PM
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Music Videos with Animation
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We've all seen A-Ha's "Take on Me" where they used Live-Action and Animation (And if Disney saw this video, he would be smiling.) Then there was a Rolling Stones video called "Harlem Shuffle" that had animation in it. Is there anymore music videos like this?
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Aug 9, 2007, 8:24 PM
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Plenty.
To name only a few: The Allen Parsons Project's "Don't Answer Me" video was done entirely in animation, resembling a comic book, "The Adventures of Nick and Sugar".
George Clinton's "Atomic Dog".
The Tom-Tom Club's "Genius of Love".
Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract" featured Abdul doing a duet with a cartoon character, MC Skat Kat.
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Supervising Animator / Contributor
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Aug 9, 2007, 8:38 PM
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Also, the pop band ABC's video for "How to Be a Millionaire" was completely 2D animated.
The music video for "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits features CG animation, done by Mainframe, the studio who would go on to produce Reboot. As an inside joke, the "Money For Nothing" guys make a cameo appearance in the Reboot episode titled "Talent Night" (originally titled "Talent Night in Hell").
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(This post was edited by SpaceDemon on Aug 9, 2007, 8:40 PM)
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Supervising Animator
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Aug 10, 2007, 8:05 AM
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Weird Al's "Jurassic Park" features animation-most of it stop motion I believe.
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Bugs Bunny cartoons are not supposed to feature a lisping Viking rabbit hunter enthusiastically professing his operatic love for a bunny in drag.
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Cartoon Aficionado / Contributor
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Aug 10, 2007, 8:06 AM
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"The Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour" sometimes showed animated videos of such early 70's classics as "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown."
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Research Guru / Moderator
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Aug 10, 2007, 10:26 AM
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Butterfly Ball (Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films, 1974), directed by Lee Mishkin, has been described as the first animated rock video. Running three and a half minutes, it featured the Roger Glover song "Love Is All." British Lion Films had plans to make a cartoon film based on the book. This cartoon was used as a promotional video to get various TV companies interested in releasing an animated 26-part cartoon series, which might then be combined to produce a full-length movie. As there was no interest in financing the project, no more cartoons were made, and the planned film was not produced.
Accidents Will Happen (Cucumber Studios, 1979) was a very early cartoon music video of the song from Elvis Costello's 1978 album "Armed Forces." This was the first music video by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, who later developed the character Max Headroom and directed The Super Mario Brothers.
Morton and Jankel's Genius Of Love (Cucumber Studios, 1979) was a musical cartoon of the song from the album Tom Tom Club. The video was made up of thousands of individual drawings by James Rizzi. The project also included the talents of Laura Weymouth, who was responsible for putting together the production team.
The 13-minute Halas and Batchelor film Autobahn (1979) was a visual interpretation of the 1974 Kraftwerk album Autobahn. Combining electronic and manual animation, it was one of the first films produced specifically for videodisc.
Sweden's FilmTecknarna studio and Britain's Nexus Productions have co-produced numerous animated music videos in recent years.
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"Oh boy." -- Allan Sherman
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Aug 10, 2007, 10:29 AM
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Elton John "The Club at the End of the Street"
Prince "Raspberry Beret"
Peter Gabriel "Sledge Hammer" with claymation and stop motion effects. "Big Time" had impressive effects as well.
Weird Al Yankovic did a parody of Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" video in poking fun at "The Beverly Hillbillies" with a CGI Jed Clampett in the film "UHF".
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"The Stones...I love The Stones...I can't believe they're still doing it all these years...I watch them whenever I can...Fred and Barney."- Steven Wright
(This post was edited by artytoons on Aug 10, 2007, 10:34 AM)
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Supervising Animator / Contributor
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Aug 10, 2007, 10:49 AM
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I remember John K. directed a couple of animated music videos: Harlem Shuffle and Close But No Cigar.
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Key Animator / Contributor
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Aug 10, 2007, 11:45 AM
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No, Harlem Shuffle was directed by Ralph Bakshi and John K. Ralph did live acton, John K did animation.
(This post was edited by SnuffyDerma on Aug 10, 2007, 11:47 AM)
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Supervising Animator / Contributor
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Aug 10, 2007, 1:16 PM
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Oops... I didn't word that out correctly. But that's what I meant: John K. did the animation for those two music videos.
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Supervising Animator
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Aug 10, 2007, 2:11 PM
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Don't Download This Song, by Weird Al was animated by Bill Plympton.
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Research Guru / Moderator
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Aug 10, 2007, 6:31 PM
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Weird Al explained that claymation was used for his "Jurassic Park" video because "it's just too hard to find real live dinosaurs these days."
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"Oh boy." -- Allan Sherman
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Lead Animator / Contributor
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Aug 10, 2007, 6:32 PM
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"Inca Roads" with Frank Zappa & The Mothers. Vivid surrealism at a breakneck pace.
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Animator
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Aug 10, 2007, 8:14 PM
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"Mornin' " by Al Jarreau.....I liked it but I only saw it once.....
Was "Rockit" by Herbie Hancock considered "animated"? It was definitely a talked-about video.
Altho' not animated as such, Jean-Luc Ponty's "Individual Choice" has way-cool time lapse photography.....evry frantic.....
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Aug 11, 2007, 11:23 AM
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"Rockit" used animatronic robots and mechanical effects...no sign of hand-drawn animation work.
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"The Stones...I love The Stones...I can't believe they're still doing it all these years...I watch them whenever I can...Fred and Barney."- Steven Wright
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Inbetweener
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Aug 11, 2007, 5:24 PM
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The video for Korn's "Freak on a Leash" had an animated sequence directed by Todd McFarlane (creator of the Spawn)
The animation is cool .. Not a fan of the band, though.
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Animator
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Aug 11, 2007, 11:55 PM
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Butterfly Ball (Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films, 1974), directed by Lee Mishkin, has been described as the first animated rock video. Running three and a half minutes, it featured the Roger Glover song "Love Is All." British Lion Films had plans to make a cartoon film based on the book. This cartoon was used as a promotional video to get various TV companies interested in releasing an animated 26-part cartoon series, which might then be combined to produce a full-length movie. As there was no interest in financing the project, no more cartoons were made, and the planned film was not produced. It was a nice little experiment. The film went on to be seen in a number of places, usually as "filler" inbetween shows I used to see as a kid.
Accidents Will Happen (Cucumber Studios, 1979) was a very early cartoon music video of the song from Elvis Costello's 1978 album "Armed Forces." This was the first music video by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, who later developed the character Max Headroom and directed The Super Mario Brothers. I have a copy of this on tape someplace from a animation short film compilation.
Morton and Jankel's Genius Of Love (Cucumber Studios, 1979) was a musical cartoon of the song from the album Tom Tom Club. The video was made up of thousands of individual drawings by James Rizzi. The project also included the talents of Laura Weymouth, who was responsible for putting together the production team. Noticed this on YouTube from a VH-1 airing that still left the production credits at the end. :-)
The 13-minute Halas and Batchelor film Autobahn (1979) was a visual interpretation of the 1974 Kraftwerk album Autobahn. Combining electronic and manual animation, it was one of the first films produced specifically for videodisc.
Sweden's FilmTecknarna studio and Britain's Nexus Productions have co-produced numerous animated music videos in recent years. Since 1961, the public broadcaster of Japan, NHK, has produced and aired a program, mostly geared to children called "Minna no Uta" (or "Everyone's Songs") in which songs are set to animation of different styles and concepts. I often wonder if this should be considered the first such music video program of it's kind in the world?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minna_no_Uta
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Zinc Saucier / Moderator
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Aug 12, 2007, 8:44 PM
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Todd McFarlane also did the animation for Pearl Jam's "Do the Evolution".
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Cartoon Aficionado / Contributor
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Aug 13, 2007, 5:01 AM
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Rod Stewart's video for "The Motown Song" featured an animated Rod.
And Gnarls Barkley's video for "Crazy" shows a series of animated ink blots.
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"Here's to thirty years of Godzilla, Godzilla, Godzilla. And....Godzooky!"
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Jpeg Master
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Aug 13, 2007, 3:38 PM
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What about that Animated DVD of the drum set, and piped organ? The whole DVD is CGI.
Someone also animated Snoop Dogs's - Vato, the original is not animated. You tube should have a bunch of listings.
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Aug 13, 2007, 8:01 PM
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What about that Animated DVD of the drum set, and piped organ? The whole DVD is CGI.
Sounds like you're describing Animusic, B. CGI-rendered musical performances by musical instruments that played themselves. Some of the Animusic sequences were shown on TechTV's Eye Drops, back when there was a TechTV, that is.
Though mostly a CG novelty, some of the musical pieces were actually quite good. My personal favorite of the lot is "Future Retro".
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Fanboyism (noun): The belief that Batman would win every fight he could ever be put in.
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Supervising Animator
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Aug 13, 2007, 9:25 PM
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There is also DTV. A clip show of Disney cartoons accompanied by popular songs. They used songs like, Private Eyes, Hound Dog, etc.
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Zinc Saucier / Moderator
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Aug 13, 2007, 9:38 PM
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pretty much all of the videos from The Gorillaz...
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Supervising Animator / Contributor
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Aug 13, 2007, 10:14 PM
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I'll Sue Ya - Weird Al
Virus Alert - Weird Al
Trapped in the Drive-Thru - Weird Al
Weasel Stomping Day - Weird Al
BTW, would it count if a video had footage of a cartoon?
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