"Animals," an animated music video for Minilogue by Kristofer Ström
Today is animation day on Boing Boing tv, and we're super proud to present a new work from one of our favorite young animator/directors -- Kristofer Ström of Ljudbilden & Piloten, based in Sweden. Here's their blog, and this has to be the most lovely Facebook graffitti ever.
This short work is a music video he created for the Swedish electronica band Minilogue. The track is "Animals," and the video features colorful critter-blobs wreaking hyperfun havoc all over an urban real-life-scape.
We asked Kristofer to tell us a little about how this came together, and he explains:
In late 2007 we (me and the band Minilogue) started talking about making a followup to the very popular "hitchhiker's choice" video. At the same time I was doing some VJ-ing for them and found that those little animations i made for that could be characters in their next video. So I started producing a lot of loops of creatures. I hooked up with bart yates, nicholas wakeham and erik buchholtz, and our first thought was to put them all in an animated world... but i didn't really feel it. Then Erik showed me a test of my characters motion-tracked onto some footage -- and there it was. So he went out shooting some spots, rough cuts without the creatures, then we added those little fellas in the footage. Voilá! A longer version will be found on the minilogue DVD, coming this fall, finally! The longer version of "hitchhiker's choice" will be on there too. Some other stuff can be found on our temporary web site: http://varelsen.com.Link to Minilogue's YouTube features. (Special thanks to Claire Jones, and to Cocoon.)
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Wonderful! I'm glad to see another of Ström's videos. A previous one he did for Minilogue, "Hitchhiker's Choice" is one of my favorite videos of all time — it's all drawn on a whiteboard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u46eaeAfeqw
Fun!
I am reminded of two anime series with a similar conceit. The Japanese have a streak of animism that lends itself to this kind of thing.
Moyashimon (which explores the wonderful world of fermentation, and the products thereof)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to0m-5Off8I
and Kamichu (in which a schoolgirl wakes up one day and realizes, matter of factly, that she is a minor deity), which has some trippy spirit world creatures I haven't been able to find a good clip of.
Cool stuff! Keep up the good work :)