Tag Archive: music

Aug
11
2011

Motion Comic Magic: Jascha Hoffman – “Some Hungry Guy”

A post on re-purposing comics and illustration into animation

I just saw this great music video by Jascha Hoffman for the song “Some Hungry Guy” in which artwork from Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay. The strips are from the turn of the century and are in the public domain. The animation is by Benjamin Ahr Harrison.

It’s nice to see someone re-purposing such classic material with love and respect, especially since McCay had such a profound effect on Comics and Animations. The art was used from comicstriplibrary.org.

Check it out…

Mar
31
2008

Bjork’s Wanderlust

(via CartoonBrew) Singer Bjork has a cool new music video from a San Francisco studio that uses live action, CGI, stopmotion and some cool puppets. I love the production design. I think the look would make a good feature film. I am glad to see traditional arts such as puppets alive and well and used in such cool ways. When I first saw the stills I assumed they buffaloes were CGI. EDIT: The new your times has a video interview HERE as well.


and here is the making of…

Jan
28
2008

the music of Tobela

My friend Alex Schumacher is part of a new band…Tobela. The music sound is folk-rock-blues-etc. There are some music demos you can here on their MySpace profile.

Sounds good guys.