Research Into Similer Products: Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

Peter Gabriel's song sledgehammer involed partnering up with Aardman Animations and Brother Quay. As you can probably guess in the clip most of it is claymation (clay animation), pixelation and stop motion. Looking at this clip made me think if it was possible to mabye do this style in my music video. 

Claymation is animation technique that relys on stop motion. The animator will make models then put them into a certain pose then take a picture. The animator will then adjust the pose very slighty and take take a picture. After repeating this a mulititude of times the Animator will have eventually made an animation. Below is an example of one of Aardmans claymations.

Pixelation is also another stop motion technique. It has the same idea of claymation when you make animation by taking a picture and moving the subject a bit. However pixelation uses live models. The technique is often used to blend live actors with animated ones. There is an example below of pixelation and raw stop motion.

The way they achieved the shots with peter gabreiel at the begining was to have a sheet of glass placed over peter gabriels face this allowed for the animators to achieve the use of pixelation and claymation has they were able to put the effects they wanted on to the glass sheet giving the illusion it is behind or next to Peter Gabriel. The chicken at the ends where normal chichens that had just been pulled from the oven. The animators just used stop motion to malunipate the chickens into dancing.

I believe all this is possible for us to implement in to our production as it only takes a camera and paientence. It would be intressting to see where we can take this.

Research into similar products: Blue Man Group

The Blue man group is an award winning global entertainment company, it was first formed in 1991. The Blue Man group are reknowned for there creative and unique perspective on audio and visuals.

The group is trio, in this trio is Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton. 

The reason I have chose to look into this group was because they use visuals as well as audio to present the preformances. In the clip below the show off there creative nature and show how powerful sound can be. Further into the clip they invole diffrent visuals which are achieved through either physical means for example spilling paint or through animation and technology. 

I admire how effective the first clip is as they use sound to fill in for the missing props. The sounds they use may not be the most realistic but they are obvious to the audience as they are used in many films and music videos.