MUSIC VIDEOS It Was Too Tough for Me to Choose Only 36 Music Videos from the Stash Archive and Compile Them Stash Media Inc
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MUSIC VIDEOS It was too tough for me to choose only 36 music videos from the Stash archive and compile them Stash Media INC. Editor: STEPHEN PRice into this 2nd collection, so I did what any editor would do. I opened it up to let the best of the best Publisher: GReg ROBINS videos fight it out for victory in a totally gnarly, steel cage grudge match. Managing editor: HEATHER GRIEVE Associate publisher: MARILEE BOITSON Of course bets were placed on popular champions such as Kanye West’s “Welcome to Account managers: APRIL HARVEY, Heartbreak”, Radiohead’s “House of Cards”, and The Chemical Brothers’ “The Salmon Dance,” CHRISTINE STEAD Associate editor: ABBEY KERR but this year saw maniacal young bloods enter the ring with Flairs “Better Than Prince”, LeLe Business development: “Breakfast” and Wild Beasts “Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants”. And don’t forget the vicious PauliNE THomPsoN comebacks of seasoned prize-fighters like Grace Jones with “Corporate Cannibal” and Paul Music editor: STEVE MARCHESE Preview editor: McCartney with “222”, proving they still have the music video moves to make it to the top of our list. HEATHER GRIEVE Technical guidance: IAN HASKIN I know you’ll enjoy this new collection, just watch out for the blood spatter. MUSIC Heather Grieve Managing Editor Get your inspiration delivered monthly. VIDEOS Toronto, May 2009 Every issue of Stash DVD magazine [email protected] is packed with outstanding animation and VFX for design and advertising. Subscribe now: WWW.STASHMEDIA.TV ISSN 1712-5928 Subscrptions: www.stashmedia.tv. Submissions: www.stashmedia.tv/submit. Contact: Stash Media Inc. 484-1641 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, BC V7M 2J5 Canada Legal things: Stash Magazine and Stash DVD are published 12 times per year by Stash Media Inc. All rights reserved and contents copyright Stash Media Inc. No part of this booklet nor the Stash DVD may be copied without express written permission from the publisher. Curated in New York, printed in Canada. stash 56.15 stash 49.10 The CRYstal Method feat. Wild Beasts MatisYahu “DrowN IN the “Brave BulGinG Buoyant Now” ClairvoYANts” Music video 3:35 Music Video the promo in Final Cut Pro with the R3D proxy files to create an off- Label: Record label: line; then they added a five-second TINY E Records DomiNO handle to the front and back of Directors: Director: every shot, which meant they AleXANdre Moors, ONEINThree had over 10 minutes of footage to JessiCa BrillHart grade. Production: Animation/VFX: ColoNel Blimp OneInThree then used the Final UVPHACTORY VFX: Cut Pro “XML to Crimson to Red www.uvphactory.com For Tiny E Records Cine” workflow to conform the Management: ONEINThree New York’s UVPH boil down live www.oneinthree.tv promo as 4K 10-bit DPXs (660 3 Artist Management gigabytes worth) before it was action, 2D, and 3D ingredients EP: Sheira Rees-Davies into a snowy, surreal, hi-con This music video, directed by UK graded in Baselight at The Mill. world for The Crystal Method’s For UVPHACTORY promo specialists OneInThree, This was then output as a 4K tif collaboration with Hasidic Jewish Directors: Alexandre Moors, pioneers a mind-bending sequence back to a hard drive so rapper Matisyahu. The majority of Jessica Brillhart technique called the Droste OneInThree could start the effects the city, the storefronts, billboards, Producer: Brian Welsh Effect based on an uncompleted process. 3D lead: Sue Jang M.C. Escher lithograph called etc. were constructed using 2D Josh Sommers translated the 1,080 computer hours, over 400 For Domino Compositing lead: John Stanch “Prentententoonstelling”. It depicts cutouts and After Effects. Live resulting formula into a program crashes and two terabytes of Commissioner: Bart Mcdonagh AD: Alexandre Moors a young man viewing a print on footage of Matisyahu was shot on called MathMap. data spread across seven hard Editing: Jessica Brillhart the wall of a gallery: a recursive For Colonel Blimp greenscreen, treated to look like drives, the final compositing DOP: Brian O’Carroll illustration of himself standing in MathMap was designed to Producer: Tamsin Glasson animation and looped to appear could be done. The resulting 3D: Scott Sindorf, Ali Asghar, the same gallery viewing himself apply the effect to single images as though he were walking the images were brought into After For OneInThree San Charoenchai, Ajit Menon viewing the print and so on, so OneInThree developed a streets of Brooklyn. The 3D robot Effects, re-conformed and DOP: Dan Trapp 2D: Marco Valentin, Jason Salo spiraling inward to an unfinished proprietary method to run infestation and water tanker were animated to zoom in time to the 2nd unit DOP: Guy Stephens TD: Damijan Saccio blank space where Escher signed sequential frames. Unfortunately, rendered though Toon Shade to beat. The transitions were then Stylist: Hannah Edwards Prod coordinator: Lauren Simpson and mono-graphed the piece. MathMap could only handle 40 achieve the Sin City-esque comic hand animated and the stills Compositing: Abbie Stephens, frames before it would crash. So book aesthetic. Toolkit The Leiden University and the added into the mix. Richard Holden with 15,992 frames to process, Softimage, After Effects, Illustrator, University of California at Berkeley the crew borrowed and stole The video was shot at 4K with For The Mill Bridge, Photoshop, Final Cut initiated a joint project to decode the math of the drawing and seven extra computers from the RED camera during a 12- Telecine Operator: James Bamford attempted to develop a more friends and colleagues to build hour, one-day shoot with a Post producers: Lee Pavey, satisfactory way of filling the hole an impromptu render farm. After minimal crew. OneInThree edited Catherine Short stash 40.08 stash 48.01 For Radical Media Socalled Director: Chris Milk Gnarls Barkley “Who’s “You Are Never AloNE” Producer: Anne Johnson Gonna save my soul” Music video 3:36 EPs: Jennifer Heath, Music video 3:24 Frank Scherma DOP: Danny Hiele Label: Record Label: Prod designer: Zach Matthews DowNtowN/AtlaNtic JDuB reCorDs, new york Colorist: Dave Hussey/Co3 Records Director: Editor: Livio Sanchez/Filmcore Director: BenJamin steiGer levine for Gradient effects Chris Milk Production/VFX: VFX super: Thomas Tannenberger Production: BSL ProductioNS VFX/CG super: Olcun Tan Radical Media ColoNel Blimp Producer: Maya Martinez Animation/VFX: www.colonelblimp.com Compositor/Flame: Simon Holden GraDient effeCts Montreal director Benjamin Lead modeler: Tom Curnan www.gradientfx.com Steiger Levine and his prodco BSL For BSL Productions Look development/shader: Productions go way beyond the Director: Benjamin Steiger Levine Raphael Protti Director Chris Milk follows up his call of duty and the low budget Producers: Patricia Boushel, Modeling/textures: Gina Kim “Gone Baby Gone” video (Stash to create one of the most striking Benjamin Steiger Levine Rigging: Chris Christman 27) with another CG-driven jaw- videos of 2007. BSL producer DOP: Bobby Shore Lighter: Alex Marin dropper for the Gnarls Barkley Patricia Boushel answers a few 1st assistant camera: Sid Zanforlin Animators: Randall Rose, industrial complex. The heart of our questions: What was the Production design: Keith Sintay was brought to bloody, beating creative brief? “There were no Nancy Hameder, Marie-Michelle Blood simulations: Eric Ehemann life by Gradient Effects in LA instructions from the client. It Deschamps Editor: Dylan Highsmith using HDRI maps to match the was conceived by the director SpecialFX modeling: Coordinator: Ian Barbella lighting and motion capture of an C.J. Goldman, Jonathan Lavallée actor for the body language. The with the help of the artist” For Image Metrics Creative challenges? “Finding Stop motion puppets: 15 shots of Cee-Lo’s lip-synch Dayna Gedney PM: Peter Busch performance was provided by the right rhythm and tone to fit Animator: Christian Brierley Socalled’s music, it being so Scenic painter: Jessica Mensch Image Metrics in Santa Monica Post: Antoine Wibaut, Paul Lead animator: Cesar Bravo using their proprietary image eclectic.” Technical challenges? Lead rigger: Oleg Alexander “Everything. Doing it all for no Raphael, Benjamin Steiger Levine analysis technology. According Motion Control: Christian Buehler Modeler: Tom Tran to Milk, “The lips had to move like money, but also tracking the eyes Tracker: Bryan Burger on the model head. It was all trial Camera-e-Motion: Delphine Saint- real human lips. We could not find Marcoux, Jonathan Barro Assistant producer: Pampata Jutte any other technology that was able and error.” Schedule: Four months For USC’s Institute for Creative Toolkit of pre-production, two-day shoot, Sound design: Simon Gervais to achieve the level of exacting Technologies: Paul Debevec Maya, RealFlow, mental ray, Flame, perfection I was asking for.” three months for post. Woman: Aasha Davis Image Metrics’ proprietary facial Man: Jorma Taconne animation solution stash 51.25 stash 43.08 BeCk “Gamma ray” The new PornoGraphers Music video 2:56 “MYriad Harbour” Music video 3:57 Record label: For Daft Arts INterscope Director: Jess Holzworth Record label: Director: Producer: Paul Hahn last GanG reCorDs Jesse HolzwortH DP: David Lanzenberg mataDor/Beggars GrouP Special make-up: William Lemon Production: Director: Daft Arts For Eight VFX FluoresceNT Hill VFX super: Jean-Marc Demmer Animation: Production: EP: Baptiste Andrieux Revolver Films eight VFX Producer: Marsi Frey www.eightvfx.com Lead motion designer: Animation: FluoresceNT Hill Making her music video directorial Amalia