Tag Archives: claymation

Off the Air: Shapes (S06E01)

11 Jan

Aired in 2016.

List of videos in this episode:

Title sequence by Natalia Stuyk
“Birds of Paradise” segment from Planet Earth supplied by Getty Images; Bird of Paradise Hook Up by Jamie Margary
Amalgam by Jack Turpin; Totally Normal by Andrew Benson; Hug by Julia Pott
Ghillie OneWheel footage by David Lewandowski; “Morgan 3000” music video by Benjamin Janos-Szabo Hunter; BDAY/KSS/TMLSS/LST_RLM by Kidmograph; Landscapes by Amy Lockhart
Drone footage by Renee Lusano
Cavernous Womb by Annapurna Kumar; “Girl Seizure” music video by Gabriel Mangold, originally for the song by Last Ex; Swirls by Masanobu Hiraoka
Wake Up to the New Now by Matthew Silver

The following artists provided additional animated loops: Zachary Zezima; Kevin Eskew; Annapurna Kumar; Julia Newhide; Jack Turpin; Alan Jennings; Andrew Benson; Allegra Jones; Adriana Trukillo; Benjamin Janos-Szabo Hunter; Rachel Seropian; Tim Brown; Gina Maune; Dina Kelberman; Kaylee SooHyun Lee; Ana Mouyis; Sian Bliss; and Maureen Kuo.

Vadoinmessico – In Spain

10 Jan

This is Cairobi before they changed the name of their band. They got fed up with having to spell the name to everyone.

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.

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.)

Andy Kennedy: Accumulonimbus

17 Sep

Clayzy awesome manifestations of motion.

Homunkulus (1984)

9 Jul

Alchemical workings from Czech animator Václav Mergl.