Music Video

Music Video: Giant Sand – Transponder

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transponder01 Earlier this month my music video for “Transponder” by Howe Gelb’s legendary band Giant Sand premiered on Stereogum. The video came about when I finished Gemma Ray’s “The Wheel” music video, Howe Gelb’s vocals feature on that track and after seeing the video for it he got in touch about working together. The animation features my sister Molly, who lives around the corner from me and is a really great illustrator and artist. I got Joe to photograph Molly in burst mode in front of our kitchen wall while I directed her to bend, stretch and cry. While I was in the middle of putting the video together Howe was coming through Berlin on tour, so it was great to be able to include him in the video, meet him in person and see him perform, the man is a genius.

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Music Video: Turbowolf – Nine Lives

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Here is a music video I just made for British rock band Turbowolf. The above YouTube embed is probably blocked if you are in Germany, in that case you can watch it here on Vevo. I had to turn this video around as soon as I arrived back in Berlin from Melbourne early last month, but even with jet-lag and not being able to leave my studio for fairly intense period, I felt totally in my element putting this together.

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Music Video: Jonathan Jeremiah – Wildfire

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I recently made this music video for Jonathan Jeremiah’s beautiful single Wildfire. The video was released in February and was created by combining some really lovely stop-motion paper animation by Joseph Jensen with my usual collage style animation. My original pitch for the video was a super technicolour sci-fi narrative that unfolded around a volcano spewing weird vibes, but after watching through my previous work Jonathan was really drawn to a black and white animation I made for Luluc many years ago, which was a straight-up homage to Busby Berkeley, so taking that as a starting-point we ended up with this, which I definitely think turned out to be a much better fit to the song than my original volcano idea.

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Music Video: Gemma Ray – The Wheel

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Here is something new I made for Gemma Ray! I originally built a small-scale rotating stage on a lazy susan, intending to use an early rough version of this animation/motion graphic as a guide for a stop-motion idea I had. I thought my mini rotating stage was awesome (and so did Gemma), but eventually I had to admit the project would probably end up taking me a year to make (and I still have projects from a year ago that I really need to finish), so I scaled back and voila! The Wheel is from Gemma’s excellent album Milk For Your Motors out through Bronze Rat.

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Music video: Ray LaMontagne “Supernova”

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sn03A couple of weeks ago my latest music video premiered over at The Huffington Post!

It’s Ray LaMontagne’s first ever music video, the Grammy awarded musician was very cool to work for and had some really nice things to say to the HuffPo about my work:

“I first came across Lucy Dyson’s work through the video for Gemma Ray’s lovely song ‘Rescue Me.’ I was hooked immediately. Genius. I was instantly taken with her Terry Gilliam-esque use of layered, ragged cut-out images. To me that was the anchor. A familiar place for my imagination to leap from. But very quickly you realize that the narrative is taking you somewhere that you didn’t expect. It feels like you’re on a roller coaster in some weird circus of the psychedelic burlesque. And yet, underneath all that strange and beautiful imagery there’s this sense that she is truly emotionally invested in the storytelling. To me, it’s like she can see within a song some hidden fourth dimension, a dimension that you didn’t even know existed until she pulls aside the curtain and invites you in.”

Here is the video:

I also made an animated teaser for the song leading up to the single release, which you can watch here:

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7″ Artwork: Saskwatch – I Get Lonely

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9 piece Soul/R&B Melbourne band Saskwatch have released their new single I Get Lonely on 7″ through Northside Records, the song was recorded and produced by Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring/Total Control), and it is excellent. I was lucky enough to work with the band again (I did the cover art for their 2012 album “Leave It All Behind”) and did the cover art for the single, (layout & design by Carl Breitkreuz). Joe and I also made an animated video for the song (which I’ll do a separate post on next),  I love working with this band! 

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Get the 7″ here:http://saskwatch.bandcamp.com/album/i-get-lonely-7