Lemon Jelly's Music Video "The Shouty Track"

I have discovered a music video to the Lemon Jelly song: "The Shouty Track" which features an animation similar to that of which I will be planning to make using paper and animated 'street-style' characters.




I quite like this animation because it demonstrates a lot of visually appealing ways to animate characters that have been focused around being simple and easy to draw. The style of the animation struck me immediately; it is made to look like a drawn 'flipbook' animation but is primarily computer generated. The illusion of this being a flip-book style animation comes from the paper background; the background has been animated slightly to look as if it has been moved in-between each frame which mimics that type of animation. The characters however have been animated digitally rather than drawn to also mimic typical flip-book animation.

The characters move a lower fps than conventional animation and at the same rate as the paper in the background, the strokes (lines) on the characters also jiggle slightly to imply they have been re-drawn for each frame. The most obvious evidence for this digital animation is the paper itself; even though it wiggles throughout the characters look as if they have been overlaid over it and look as if they are made of ink which can't be erased, rather than pencil.

The music video shows that there are many interesting ways to digitally animate characters which I will keep in mind when I animate mine.