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Ottawa: Music Video Standouts

andreas hykadeIn my first of several posts on various highlights from the Ottawa International Animation Festival, is the Music Video Catagory. One of the entries won the Grand Prize for Commissioned Animation, Die Toten Hosen ‘Walkampf’, directed by Andreas Hykade. What starts out as a simple black & white video erupts into a symphony of color with bizarre creatures and intriguing animated cycles. It won me over. I couldn’t find the entire video available to view online, but there is a special page in the making of the video on Film Bilder’s site here, complete with a movie clip and a ‘stages of production’ feature. Andreas has done several other interesting short films, as well as some illustration work. In fact, he designed the entire OIAF program last year, which you can see the cover here.

(UPDATE: You can see the entire video for ‘Walkampf’ at Die Toten Hosen’s German site. Go HERE and then choose from three speeds:

Für langsamere Verbindungen (slow)
Für durchschnittliche Verbindungen (medium)
Für schnelle Verbindungen (fast)

–Thanks greenpix.de!)

hitchcockThe video that won the actual catagory for Music Video (I know, it’s a little confusing) was Phoenix Foundation ‘Hitchcock’ directed by Reuben Sutherland. You can view the entire video on Joyrider’s site here. Once on the site, click ‘Directors’ and then click on Reuben’s name. CG-animated cars in a live-action environment + haunting soundtrack makes for a great video.

Another video in competition that is worth mentioning was Tom Neely‘s video for The Muffs ‘Don’t Pick On Me’. Tom, as you may know, was mentioned before on Drawn! I got to meet the guy and we hit it off pretty well. He’s updated his site since our post, with an added comics section. He also has a blog. To view the Muff’s video, you can see the entire thing here. Tom has a knack for getting that rubberhose, Fleischer-style down pretty well.

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  • http://jaredchapman.com/ Jared

    Reading your posts on Ottawa (both here and at the Ward-o-Matic) makes me kick myself for missing it AGAIN this year. Next year I’ll try my darn’dest to make it… sounds like it’s a blast!

  • http://jaredchapman.com Jared

    Reading your posts on Ottawa (both here and at the Ward-o-Matic) makes me kick myself for missing it AGAIN this year. Next year I’ll try my darn’dest to make it… sounds like it’s a blast!

  • http://www.screenhead.com/funny/animation/louis-clichys-a-quoi-ca-sert-lamour-129072.php Screenhead

    Louis Clichy’s A Quoi ça Sert L’amour?

    Louis Clichy’s A Quoi ça Sert L’amour?* A great little bit of “ah, what the hell is life” style animation set to a Edith Piaf and Theo Sarapo duet….

  • http://www.robotjohnny.com/ Johnny

    I’m with Jared — next year! Let’s make it a Drawn! party!

  • http://www.robotjohnny.com Johnny

    I’m with Jared — next year! Let’s make it a Drawn! party!

  • http://wardomatic.blogspot.com/ Ward

    Oh yes — and I can see it now: three of us uploading images immediately after the first screening, trying to be the first one to post! I’m down wit dat!

  • http://wardomatic.blogspot.com Ward

    Oh yes — and I can see it now: three of us uploading images immediately after the first screening, trying to be the first one to post! I’m down wit dat!

  • http://www.greenpix.de/ greenpix.de

    you can watch the “Wahlkampf” video in 3 different Resolutions(slow, moderate, fast) on the German Toten Hosen website here:
    http://www.dietotenhosen.de/neuigkeiten_news_walkampf.php
    click on:
    Für langsamere Verbindungen (slow)
    Für durchschnittliche Verbindungen (moderate)
    Für schnelle Verbindungen (fast)

  • http://www.greenpix.de greenpix.de

    you can watch the “Wahlkampf” video in 3 different Resolutions(slow, moderate, fast) on the German Toten Hosen website here:
    http://www.dietotenhosen.de/neuigkeiten_news_walkampf.php
    click on:
    Für langsamere Verbindungen (slow)
    Für durchschnittliche Verbindungen (moderate)
    Für schnelle Verbindungen (fast)

  • http://jaredchapman.com/ Jared

    I’m game for it! A Drawn! party would be a blast… and racing to post first would be the icing on the cake.

  • http://jaredchapman.com Jared

    I’m game for it! A Drawn! party would be a blast… and racing to post first would be the icing on the cake.

  • http://wardomatic.blogspot.com/ Ward

    Thanks, greenpix for the link! I’ll do an update on the post.

  • http://wardomatic.blogspot.com Ward

    Thanks, greenpix for the link! I’ll do an update on the post.

  • http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ Amid

    Don’t set the bar too high. I’d hate to have to start updating the Brew while I’m in Ottawa, just to keep up with the Drawn boys.

  • http://www.cartoonbrew.com Amid

    Don’t set the bar too high. I’d hate to have to start updating the Brew while I’m in Ottawa, just to keep up with the Drawn boys.

  • http://ghostbot.blogspot.com/ roque

    Yeah, I’m with Amid. Let’s just put the bar on the ground and agree to collectively slack…

  • http://ghostbot.blogspot.com roque

    Yeah, I’m with Amid. Let’s just put the bar on the ground and agree to collectively slack…

  • http://humaninbox.blogspot.com/2005/10/die-toten-hosen-walkampf.html Im a Human Inbox

    Die Toten Hosen: Walkampf

    I found this Russian (correct me if I’m wrong) music video today and I totally love it. It’s got a strange hand-drawn animation style and a Irish Punk sound to it. I’m a major Flogging Molly fan so I certainly like the song (Yes, I know these guys a…