We Have Band: "You Came Out" (Stop Motion Music Video)

Posted by Xeni Jardin, June 11, 2009 9:02 AM | permalink

Above, a stop motion music video for the We Have Band track, "You Came Out". Created by the W+K creative team Ida Gronblom & Fabian Berglund and Blinkink director David Wilson. About the making of:

The face paint animation film is made up of 4,816 separate stills. Each and every frame was hand-painted, shot, wiped off and redrawn, slightly differently for the next frame in order to create a seamless sequence. This time-consuming process involved the band members lying still for two consecutive days in a studio.
In order to animate the singing bit, lip movement was created by animating a painted mouth on the singer Dede. This involved breaking the lyrics into phonetics and giving each sound a specific mouth shape. To make this as realistic as possible all the mouth shapes were painted on Dedes face individually and then shot.

Flickr set with all 4,816 frames of the music video. Neat. (Thanks, Tara McGinley)

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#1 posted by Anonymous, June 11, 2009 9:26 AM

WARNING: DO NOT WATCH IF YOU ARE STONED!!!!!

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#2 posted by HotPepperMan, June 11, 2009 9:38 AM

Clever but there have been some far more awesome SG movies than this. I admire the tenacity and inoput required though...

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#3 posted by bishely, June 11, 2009 11:09 AM

Hm. Dunno why they're bragging about the lip sync, cause that's the least effective part, for me (I'm sure it took painstaking effort, but it just doesn't quite work)...

But the whole paint running on and off the faces part is gorgeous. Nice song too. Sold.

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#4 posted by annvaida, June 11, 2009 11:31 AM

I didn't like the lipsyncing part either, but i loved the paint circles that started from the mouth tho. That was brilliant! Really pretty.

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#5 posted by Marsha Keeffer, June 11, 2009 12:06 PM

Great - this is part of why I love BoingBoing, thanks!

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#6 posted by Anonymous, June 11, 2009 12:07 PM

That is hella creepy.

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#7 posted by Anonymous, June 11, 2009 12:25 PM

I love Bori's stop motion music video, check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qf6vmELIhI

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#8 posted by Anonymous, June 11, 2009 12:33 PM

That was absolutely terrifying. Eye hands. *eye-twitch*

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#9 posted by Anonymous, June 11, 2009 1:45 PM

great stuff, I just did some stop motion for a music video for the Tiny Masters of Today. Please check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxXqztjzndI

It's a slow painful process and I applaud anyone that can sit through it.