Dvein: The Vein/Magma

Dvein is back with this brilliant liquid inspired music video for The Vein’s new single: Magma.

And here you can see the process behind this incredible piece!

Peter Lowey: Gotye “Save Me”

Melbourne-based Peter Lowey takes me back to the classic Liquid Television days in his music video for Gotye’s Save Me.

Credits
Directed and Animated by Peter Lowey
3D modeling and inbetweening by Andrew Bowler
Compositing by Glenn Hatton

Hayley Morris: Iron & Wine “Joy”

Hayley Morris creates a beautiful watercolor and stop-motion world for Iron & Wine’s Joy. The stunning music video was created over the course of two months in her Brookyln studio. Hayley was kind enough to share some of her creative process with us.

When brainstorming ideas for possible narratives and visual interpretations of the song I was drawn to a particular lyric. “Deep inside the heart of this crazy mess I’m only calm when I get lost within your wilderness.” This is what sparked my idea.

Joy is a song about love and taking a moment to realize how someone can vastly change how you perceive yourself and the world around you. My goal for this video was to make the viewer feel this sense of joy, discovery and appreciation by following the organic flow of the song as the landscape changes through bursts of color, growth and transformation. Through his eyes we see how the woman Sam sings about changes his world by catching glimpses of her within the different plants, rocks, trees and objects that occupy the scenery/himself. In the end we see that he is full of color and vibrancy.

The video is a mixed-media piece. It’s composed of a blend of rotoscope watercolor animations and stop-motion. I hand made every piece in the landscape from found objects, paper, clay and various materials, and then projected her image into the set pieces. Each scene was shot frame by frame with Dragon in my studio space in my apartment. It was nice rolling out of bed and ready for work!

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Biting Elbows ‘Bad Motherfucker’ (Insane Office Escape 2)

Ultra-violent and possibly NSFW, this first-person POV music video for Biting Elbows’ “Bad Motherfucker” has racked up 5 million views in less than 3 days. Directed by Ilya Naishuller (Great Guns) as a follow up to “Insane Office Escape.”

Louis & McCourt – Easy

London duo Louis & McCourt create a futuristic Anime music video for Mat Zo & Porter Robinson’s “Easy”.

Cyriak: Bonobo “Cirrus”

Cyriak is no stranger to Motionographer. His experiments in looping animations are the closest thing you can get to a mind-altering experience without ingesting psychedelic drugs. This is both economical and fun.

His latest, a music video for Bonobo’s “Cirrus,” features the same surreal looping technique for which Cyriak is celebrated, with source material that looks as though it was mined from the public domain video treasure trove, The Prelinger Archive.

As the video progresses, its campy tableaux morph and coalesce into nightmare machines and gigantic robots of consumerism gone amok. It’s beautifully creepy stuff, done the way only Cyriak can do it.

Adam Powell: Sivu “Better Man Than He”

Adam Powell directs Sivu’s “Better Man Than He,” using MRI-based imagery