LAIKA Adds ‘Gorillaz’ Music Video Director and ‘Headless’ Directing Duo
Studio brings on Pete Candeland along with the Annie Award-winning pair Victor Maldonado and Alfredo Torres, respectively, bolstering the animation division’s creative roster.
Category: Music Videos
A24 Music and Prime Video Share First Song from ‘Hazbin Hotel’
Check out ‘Happy Day in Hell,’ a devilishly cute first listen to the soundtrack from Vivienne Medrano’s all-new animated comedy; the A24 and Bento Box series premieres on Prime Video this coming January.
Juice and CD PROJEKT RED Drop ‘Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty’ Music Video
The creative studio, director Michał Misiński and singer-songwriter Dawid Podsiadło collaborated on the game universe’s expansion pack promo; live-action and animation merge to create the familiar, dark-future world within the cyberspace realm where the game’s heroine thrives.
Psyop and Riot Drop ‘League of Legends 2023’ Anthem Promo
Directed by Marie Hyon and HANZOHANZO, the 2.5D-animated music video for the World Championship, set to a new track by Riot Games, features K-Pop girl group NewJeans and places viewers at the center of the battlefield field as DRX and Deft triumph in the greatest finals in LOL history.
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Call for Entries: 8th annual Festival of Cinema NYC film festival at Regal Cinemas
Begins: August 2, 2024
Entering its 8th year, Festival of Cinema NYC will be taking place from August 2nd - 11th, 2024 at the legendary Regal UA Midway theater in Forest Hills Queens, New York; submissions of all lengths and genres as being accepted.
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Quality Schnallity: Using ‘Crazy’ Animation to Break Down Big Ideas
The veteran animator has built a long, successful career using various 2D techniques to produce ‘explainer videos’ that help companies unpack their product’s messages in fun ways that aren’t boring.
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2024 British Animation Awards Open for Entries, Adds Int’l Animated Series Category
Also announced is the separation of long format project honors into Best Long Form Animation and Best Feature Film awards.
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Black Kite Rocks VFX for the Rolling Stones ‘Angry’ Single
The legendary rockers are back with their 78th music video - tapping Riff Raff’s Francois Rousselet to direct, the VFX studio returned 60s-style rock billboards to the Sunset Strip, using vintage footage and 2D and 3D roto in a drive through the iconic bands’ legendary career.
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Björk Debuts ‘Victimhood’ Animated Music Video
The short, with art by Gabríela Friðriksdóttir and animation by Pierre-Alain Giraud, features unsettling yet organic visuals, with an interesting ‘paper-like,’ canvas texture mixed with AI generation.
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Anima, The Brussels Animation Film Festival 2024
Begins: February 23, 2024
The 43rd edition of the festival, taking place February 23 to March 3, 2024 in Brussels, will showcase the genre of science fiction and highlight Hungary’s bustling film industry; film submissions will be accepted until October 2, 2023.
Ital Tek’s ‘The Mirror’ Brings Sound to Animation
Created by U.K.-based director/animator Karl Poyzer the fully animated CG music video found its timing with the track from the ‘Time Proof’ album.
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Watch: True August’s ‘Felt It In Stereo’ Animated Music Video
Director Mel Tomlin combines traditional animation with cutting-edge AI to bring visual life to the focus track from the new album ‘Breathing Room, released today.
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Tenacious D Releases Animated Music Video for ‘Video Games’
Hard-rocking duo Jack Black and Kyle Gass burst onto the music scene for the first time in years for a video featuring a mix of 2D and 3DCG that takes viewers on an amazing adventure through the worlds of many fan-favorite games.
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FutureDeluxe and Forever Expand with Two Key Hi-Profile Hires
Mike Bell (formerly of Nexus) joins FutureDeluxe as EP, while Joel Dennis (hailing from Sid Lee) fills Forever’s newly created role of Global Head of Growth.
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Kana Hanazawa Releases Animated Music Video for ‘Circle’
The veteran ‘Goodbye, Don Glees!’ and ‘Suzume’ voice actress chose a pixel art style for her newest single, which was produced by pixel artist m7kenji; the music video streams now on her official YouTube account.
FutureDeluxe Brings ‘Brutal Collage’ to Björk’s ‘Fossora’ Music Video
Using the title track of the singer’s latest album ‘Fossora,’ the experimental design studio depicted her performance within a dynamic, rotting, earthy mushroom world, bringing two parallel universes together in sync with the music.
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Fest Anča 2023
Begins: June 29, 2023
The animation festival and international competition runs June 29-July 2; the event promotes animated film as an autonomous art form and seeks to educate audiences about its varied techniques and aspects.
ANIFILM 2023
Begins: May 2, 2023
The International Festival of Animated Films, running May 2-7 in Liberec, Czech Republic, presents the latest trends, methods, technologies, and animation techniques while supporting works in progress, new animation projects, and their authors, producers, and distributors.
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Call for Entries: OIAF 2023 Open for Submissions
The annual five-day event returns September 20-24; there are no entry fees, and artists worldwide are invited to submit through May 31.
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‘Gorillaz’ Feature Canceled at Netflix
The virtual band’s co-creator Damon Albarn has confirmed the project has been axed due to cutbacks at the streamer.
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Framestore Pictures Adds Directors Rich Lee and Jennifer Stafford
Company to represent both filmmakers in North America and the UK; Lee’s recent credits include multi-award-winning project ‘The Hiring Chain,’ while Stafford’s include Emmy Award-winning short ‘One Shot.’
Linkin Park Releases Anime-Inspired ‘Meteora’ 20th Anniversary Music Video
The AI-hybrid video for previously unreleased song ‘Lost’ is produced and animated by Shibuya, with AI production by Kaiber.ai.
Nexus Studios Tapped for Gorillaz ‘Silent Running’ Music Video
Director Fx Goby and band co-creator Jamie Hewlett deliver an ambitious short that brings together prosthetics, pyrotechnics, performance, and intricate visual effects.
JAMM Visual Adds Alex Snookes
The VFX supervisor and compositor’s vast experience includes Pharrell Williams’s music video, ‘Cash In Cash Out,’ and the VES award nominated commercial B&Q ‘Flip.’
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Pink Floyd Animation Contest Stirs Controversy by Exploiting Artists
The animation community is calling foul play on an animated music video competition being held in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the legendary English rock band’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ album.
