King Khan & The Shrines – “Darkness” (Official Video)

King Khan’s about to release Idle No More, his first album in six years with the psychedelic garage-soul band the Shrines, and we posted their song “Born To Die” a little while back. That song sounded nothing like “Darkness,” a slow-burner ballad and the basis for the band’s new music video. The German animation crew Hylas put the clip together expertly, using a claymation circus strongman and human cannonball to ask some existential questions.

MGMT - "Alien Days" Record Store Day Cassingle

Record Store Day falls in two days, and MGMT are using the opportunity to resurrect a long-dormant format, releasing their new song “Alien Days” as a cassingle. And now they’ve made a 48-second promo video for that cassingle. It’s a psychedelic stop-motion-animated clip that stars the cassingle itself, as well as an interstellar sock puppet. Needless to say, it makes absolutely no sense.

Iron And Wine – “Joy” Video

According to director Hayley Morris, she made her video for “Joy,” a delicate song from Iron And Wine’s new album Ghost On Ghost, by “projecting hand-painted water color animations into stop-motion landscapes.” This sounds like an incredible amount of work! And in so doing, she created a sense of fragile and otherworldly beauty that she couldn’t have achieved if she hadn’t hand-made the whole thing.

When brainstorming ideas for possible narratives and visual interpretations of the song I was drawn to a particular lyric. “Deep inside the heart of this crazy mess I’m only calm when I get lost within your wilderness.” This is what sparked my idea.

Joy is a song about love and taking a moment to realize how someone can vastly change how you perceive yourself and the world around you. My goal for this video was to make the viewer feel this sense of joy, discovery and appreciation by following the organic flow of the song as the landscape changes through bursts of color, growth and transformation. Through his eyes we see how the woman Sam sings about changes his world by catching glimpses of her within the different plants, rocks, trees and objects that occupy the scenery/himself. In the end we see that he is full of color and vibrancy.

The video is a mixed-media piece. It’s composed of a blend of rotoscope watercolor animations and stop-motion. I hand made every piece in the landscape from found objects, paper, clay and various materials, and then projected her image into the set pieces. Each scene was shot frame by frame with Dragon in my studio space in my apartment. It was nice rolling out of bed and ready for work!

 "Joy" Behind the Scenes

Shugo Tokumaru – “Katachi”

The video for “Katachi,” an orchestral psychedelic song from the Japanese avant-popper Shugo Tokumaru, is a delightfully hypnotic thing, entirely stop-motion animated with cut-out paper shapes. The video adds another cut-out to its ever-shifting kaleidoscopic landscape every split-second, which means somebody put a lot of work into it. Director by Kijek/Adamski (http://kijekadamski.blogspot.com)

TKTTSM - Plastic Fantastic (Official Music Video)

Director: Patrick Ryan Morris
Producer: Sheena Suarez
Produced by Dedalus Moving Pictures

Bleeding Rainbow - "Drift Away" (Official Music Video)

Philly garage-poppers Bleeding Rainbow, formerly Reading Rainbow, will return early next year with their new album Yeah Right. The video for their raggedly catchy new single “Drift Away” alternates foggy band-performance footage with a tough-to-follow stop-motion narrative about a skull-faced alien scientist.

Watch Sufjan Stevens' Stop-Motion Lego Video for Christmas Song

After teasing a new Christmas album (which may or may not feature Kitty Pryde), Sufjan Stevens has posted a stop-motion Lego video on his website with a Christmas song. The video was made back in 2007 but posted on YouTube earlier today. The main lyrics are "I am Santa's helper," and, "You are Santa's slave."

This isn't Stevens' first stop-motion video-- he animated the video for "Get Real Get Right" from The Age of Adz.

Via: Pitchfork.

Hundred Waters – “Thistle”

In Hundred Waters’ music video for “Thistle”, a stop-motion piñata horse is given the chance to transcend birthday parties and roam free. And roam he does, running like paper lightning through various fantastical landscapes (churches, in the desert at sunset), all while receiving visions in the form of Polaroid photos of his own life cycle. But like all good things in life, the horse’s wandering ways are threatened with terrifying premonitions of derby masks and laughing audience members. Find out if our buckin’ bronco runs free or is tied down hard when you click play.

Pilot Evolution

Martin Allais‘s fun cel animation spot for Pilot pens has been out for a while, but somehow never made it onto the main feed. Enjoy!

Note: NSFW around 0:38 if a momentary cartoon wang is not going to fly at work.

White Mystery - "Rapid Overdrive"

Stop Motion Music Video- White Mystery "Rapid Overdrive". Video by Penelope Gazin

Keaton Henson - Small Hands

There are many lovely woodland creatures in Joseph Mann’s bittersweet music video for Keaton Henson’s Small Hands. At first you think they’re stop-motion, but they turn out to be puppets by Jonny Sabbagh.

Director: Joseph Mann
Executive Producer: Bart Yates
Produced by: Joseph Mann, Tamsin Glasson, James Bretton
Written by: Joseph Mann
Director of Photography: Matthew Day

Gotye - Easy Way Out (Official video)

Film clip for the Gotye song Easy Way Out, from the album Making Mirrors.

Oh Yeah Wow has just finished this clever music video for Gotye. Nice mix of live action and stop motion with almost no CG. The shoot was intense — Oh Yeah Wow slept in the bed and ate out of the refrigerator during production.

Directed By Darcy Prendergast
www.ohyeahwow.com

Bombay Bicycle Club - How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep

Music video by Bombay Bicycle Club performing How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep.Director: ANNA GINSBURG www.annaginsburg.co.uk

Click here to view a Making-of Blog for the video: http://bicyclesonthemoon.tumblr.com/

Vampire Bash - Five Second Project Winner for “Monster Bash”

António Silva, maker of Vampire Bash animation.

More: Five Second Project Winner for “Monster Bash”

Coasting - Portland

Coasting skates through a magical adventure in their song Portland off their album "You're Never Going Back" animated and directed by Sarah Manuwal.

Tribute to drive

A killer tribute to the film Drive, from Paris-based duo Tom Haugomat & Bruno Mangyoko.

Awesome History Of The World Stop Motion Video

It took Kalle Mattson, Kevin Parry, and friends over six months to create this cute stop motion short, a lot shorter than the time-frame covered in the video! Watch as history is told via illustrated paper, on an ever turning globe that brings it all back around again.

–via BuzzFeed

Jukebox the Ghost - Half Crazy

Music video by Jukebox the Ghost performing Half Crazy.

Address Is Approximate

Office toys go on a road trip the only way they can, with the help of Google Street View and stop-motion animation in this animation by Tom Jenkins. Read more about this video at the Atlantic. Link -via Metafilter

Cage The Elephant – “Aberdeen”

The animated claymation music video for “Aberdeen” from Cage The Elephant. Directed by Isaac Rentz.