Hungarian director Balázs Simon fuses a variety of animation techniques (including 3D, 2D, and hand-rendered) into a surreal and cinematic music video for “Wurlitzer” by London multi-instrumentalist Leifur James. [Watch]
Directors Nigel Tierney and Federico Heller rally a feature film-sized crew at Buenos Aires studio 3dar to create the most ambitious and star-studded animated music video you may ever witness. [Watch]
Melancholy is not a feeling I associate with pop music but this video for Chinese singer/songwriter Cai Xukun, powered by meditative animation from VCRWORKS in Seoul, takes us deep into sorrow and pulls off an unlikely emotional coup along the way. [Watch]
One of the most delightfully strange music videos we’ve seen in a decade, “Hesperius Draco” was crafted by Seattle CG artist and director Richard Lord for Brussell’s based musician Alessandro Parisi.
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Bristol animation directing duo Hi-Sim (aka Chris Hawkes and Chuen Hung Tsang) explore the whimsical edges of chaos and what happens when carefully planned systems fall apart in this CG video for English rock band Editors. [Watch]
Ruffmercy, the UK animator/director (and Stash regular) best known for his music video work, lets loose with a magnum opus called “’88,” a gloriously chaotic 11-minute film made for The Barbican’s Jean-Michel Basquiat retrospective in London. [Watch]
