Here's something they don't tell you about animation, at least to the uninitiated; animation, is soul destroying. It's like a leech of your happiness, a succubus on your will to live.... I just wanted to get that out of the way.
The actual process of creating the animation was very fun, though. The idea was to rotoscope a performance of a band member, who ran around the studio, singing to one of their songs. So I can't criticise it for being blasé.
Not to brag or anything, but I was the only one brave enough to record the singer with the camera. All the frames might not be mine, but everything that you see is ultimate because I did it!
That's right, I am taking complete responsibility of all of this work!
(i'm not....
Anyway. After the video was recorded, all the frames were broken up into singular pictures and printed for us to go wild on.... here are a couple of mine.
Essentially, everyone was given a select number of frames and we all illustrated over them, the individual designs lost amongst the frames but the constant of the person prancing around remaining consistent, creating a truly interesting and unique visual to go with the music.
And here is the final output.
Today, They Are Older Re-release Stinger from Sunbird Records on Vimeo.
