Research and Inspiration

The following videos inspired our character creation, mainly because of the way if focuses of facial expression and the way in which the character move within the animated space.Which is our two main elements for creating meaning

Facial expression and Movement

Steve and Jimmy

These videos demonstrates a clear relationship between musical composition/soundscape and animated space which we are looking at achieve with our Animation clip. The first video also inspired our use of depth of field within our project, this video does it well by using layers of glass.  


Relation between musical composition/soundscape and animated image

South Park Soulja boy

The following stop motion music video cleared up many question we had about creating a stop animation music video such as is our idea too ambitious, will movement and the synchronization of lyrics and animated character be too difficult etc. 

Stop Motion Music Video

Our final video stresses the importance of synchronization especially for our experimental music video

lip sync test