Best known for his anime series including Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, director Shinichiro Watanabe brings his multi-genre style to this stranger-in-a-stranger-land video for LA producer/musician/rapper Flying Lotus. [Watch]
German director and digital artist Tobias Gremmler expands on his experimental CG motion capture work with a transcendent interpretation of Björk’s body and face for “Tabula Rasa,” a track off her 2017 release Utopia. [Watch]
Hungarian director Balázs Simon fuses a variety of animation techniques (including 3D, 2D, and hand-rendered) into a surreal and cinematic music video for “Wurlitzer” by London multi-instrumentalist Leifur James. [Watch]
Directors Nigel Tierney and Federico Heller rally a feature film-sized crew at Buenos Aires studio 3dar to create the most ambitious and star-studded animated music video you may ever witness. [Watch]
Melancholy is not a feeling I associate with pop music but this video for Chinese singer/songwriter Cai Xukun, powered by meditative animation from VCRWORKS in Seoul, takes us deep into sorrow and pulls off an unlikely emotional coup along the way. [Watch]
One of the most delightfully strange music videos we’ve seen in a decade, “Hesperius Draco” was crafted by Seattle CG artist and director Richard Lord for Brussell’s based musician Alessandro Parisi.
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