great animated music videos

Eighteen great animated music videos

Amanita Design (creator of Samorost) does it all -- I haven't yet had

the opportunity to link to the absolutely beautiful music video they

created for Under Byen - "Plantage". The visual style will feel very

familiar to fans of Samorost.

I adore this video. The song is "Remind Me/So Easy" by Norwegian duo

R�yksopp, and the animation is a strange and wonderful video by French

design studio H5 showing a day in the life of a London office worker

as told entirely through infographics, from the features of the alarm

clock that wakes her up and where her sewage goes after she flushes to

dancing pie charts and stock quotes at the office to stats on pints of

beer consumed across the country at the end of the workday. Though the

style is deceptively simple, the system is bogglingly complex,

revealing the amazingly intricate workings of modern life as we move

through it in almost total oblivion.

Via Le territoire des sens.

"The Child" by Alex Gopher is another video created by H5 in 1999. In

this one, the entire story is acted out by animated blocks of

typography. Very cool.

Like those? More music videos by H5:

Darkel - At the End of the Sky (2006)

�tienne Daho - "Retour � toi" (2003)

Goldfrapp - "Twist" (2003)

Massive Attack - "Special Cases" (2003)

Sinema - "In My Eyes" (2002)

Wuz (Alex Gopher and Demon) - "Use Me" (2002)

Playgroup - "Number One" (2001)

Super Furry Animals - "Juxtaposed With U" (2001)

Steampunk Daedalus and Icarus is a steampunk reimagining of the Greek

myth in a sleek woodcut-slideshow style by David Brunell Brutman,

creator of the also steampunk-themed illustrated tale The �thereal

Adventures of Emma Verne. The song used in the video is Michael

Andrews - "Mad World".

Via Brass Goggles.

Illustrator and animator Clemens Habicht has a very nice portfolio of

music videos, most done in a loose, freewheeling collage style. Try

the freaky, funny Motor - "Din10", the dreamier, equally expressive

Sia - "Numb", or the more minimalist, delicate Lucine ICL -

"Seemingly".

In illustrator and animator Joel Trussell's high-energy cartoon world,

femme fatales pull off daring heists in spaceborne manta rays with

robot owls, scary nurses chase furry woodland animals on railcars, and

viking ships do battle by electric guitar. Wild, wacky stuff. The

music videos in question are Atomic Swindlers - "Float (my electric

stargirl)", Kid 606 - "The Illness", and Jason Forrest - "War

Photographer".