Thursday 13 October 2011

Pencil Full of Lead [live action/claymation]

I've been looking at some examples of combining live action footage with animation in some form — the obvious choice is, of course, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but one of my flatmates showed me this music video:


I wasn't particularly impressed at first — the clay model is a bit crude and the music's not really my bag. I found it a bit difficult to really get the point, but once the dancers start slapping him around and pulling bits off it quickly becomes quite an effective piece of slapstick with some interesting character sequences. I like how it's quite self-aware — they all know he's a clay model and play on that. It's certainly not the first time or most effective way that it's been done but it's quite entertaining none the less.

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