Hand-drawn animated music video by Rosanna Wan for Tom Rosenthal
Dezeen Music Project: a little girl drawn with crayons goes on a journey across the ocean in this animated music video by Rosanna Wan for Tom Rosenthal's track I Like It When You're Gone.
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Wan drew all of the animation sequences for the music video by hand on rolls of newsprint and then digitally composited them together.
"It was a very economical process," Wan told Dezeen. "The kid is on one layer and the scrolling background is made up of all these other looping elements."
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Rather than spend time trying to minimise the boiling effect - the wobbly lines that occur in hand-drawn animations because of the slight variations between frames - Wan chose to make a feature out of it.
"There's a meandering rhythm and melody to the song," Wan said. "I wanted that same quality to come through in the visuals."
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The protagonist's journey starts in a small sailing boat, before she jumps into the ocean and continues on the back of a giant fish.
"The idea was to illustrate a simple journey, but to have that journey experienced in a new light, turning it into an adventure," Wan said. "It's about enjoying your own aloneness and rediscovering a landscape that has come to be taken for granted. That's how I interpreted Tom's song, anyway."
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Tom Rosenthal is a musician based in London. I Like It When You're Gone is taken from his second album, Who's That In The Fog?, which was released last year on Tinpot Records.
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