Tag Archives: claymation

Bolshoi Theatre clay mapping-directed by Ilya Gilmanov

3 Jun

Holy Fuck: Xed Eyes (music video by Chad VanGaalen)

24 May

An unrelenting barrage of LSD visuals from Chad.

Bloc Party

24 Oct

Seems like these guys have a pretty serious budget for animation and are not afraid of variety.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66xxck1TV-Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOvZ8ln1riQ

TV on the Radio – Second Song

21 Feb

I searched. Believe me, I searched for more on the making of this video. Maybe stop-motion techniques don’t vary that much, but I would love to watch a project like this unfold. I am eternally grateful that there are people in this world who make such visions a reality for the rest of us.

A few photos of the production process: http://michaelplease.blogspot.com/2011/09/making-of-tv-on-radio-second-song.html

Seeeds of Love

14 Feb

Valentine’s Day seems to be a pretty polarizing holiday. If you’re sharing it with someone special this year, the first video is probably what you’d like to see. If not, and you’re in the mood for some schadenfreude, the second is about a married brute going out to the clubs and then being blackmailed by the one he pursues.

Lest Ye Become a Monster

27 Dec

Nearly everyone I’ve shown this video has said they wished they understood the lyrics. I haven’t been able to find the article for some time, but I remember years ago reading an interview in which the artist said that the video was supposed to be about people’s tendency to shape their identities according to their profession, trying to make themselves more closely resemble some kind of ideal prototype of a master of this occupation. If there are any Russian-speakers out there, maybe you can confirm or refute this?

Regardless of the meaning, there is something I find oh so visually satisfying in the marching sequence and the clay homunculus that accompanies each profession. The rap might be a bit abrasive, but now that this one’s a staple of my collection, I always find myself trying to mumble along despite not speaking a word of Russian.

And if you dig the featured artist, maybe search our archives for Lyapis Trubetskoy…

(Thank you, Warren, for showing me this years ago.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxYAlaSvdUI

Andy Kennedy: Accumulonimbus

17 Sep

Clayzy awesome manifestations of motion.

Homunkulus (1984)

9 Jul

Alchemical workings from Czech animator Václav Mergl.

Train Logger (stratacut)

3 Jul

Nicos Livesey anoints your troubled soul with smooth stratabutter.

The Amazing Mr. Bickford – Frank Zappa

4 May

This amazing claymation made by clay animation arist Bruce Bickford, to the sounds of Frank Zappa, never ceases to evolve, creating a world of continuous movement and change. Just like ours…

(Link: Ran Rishon. Thanks!)