Category: Music Video Spotlight (Page 1 of 70)

Music Video Spotlight: spktra – Spirit Jumper

Written, directed and edited by spktra.

Director’s note: This music video took 5 years to make. I wanted something that felt like it could have come from an authentic cel animation production and then been lost to time.

Painstaking detail went into researching the effects of film on animation, from grain, halation, bloom, and color shifts, to how traditional optical effects were achieved and how subtle movements in cel photography gave the image additional texture.

The goal wasn’t just to mimic a style, but to capture that feeling you have when you watch old animation.

Producers: Jessica Wen and Michael Fish.

Animation: Tamás Pazmany and Regina Nemes

Character Design: Glenn Wong, Louis Picard and Zac Plucinski

Character Color Stylist: Chris Hooten

Background Art: Alfie Marley

Creative Consultant: Eric Williger

Music Video Spotlight: Juana Molina – Desinhumano

Synopsis: A song inspired by the story of the Monkey King from the Chinese novel Journey to the West.

In this story, a powerful monkey, born from a magical stone, is trapped beneath a mountain by Buddha after becoming too powerful and causing chaos in heaven.

Hand painted with acrylics on acetate film.

Directed by Dante Zaballa.

Animated by Dante Zaballa and Nespy5euro.

Painted by Ago Carrera, Azul Segovia, Dante Zaballa, Eze Matteo, Juana Molina, Marina Pla, Seba Gaugin, Simon Wilches Castro, Sofi Galarce, Sukermercado and Vrea.

Music Video Spotlight: Cuco – A Love Letter To LA

Synopsis: A psychedelic love letter to Los Angeles that transforms familiar streets into kaleidoscopic dreamscapes.

The goal was to bring the city’s energy to life in a surreal journey that bends reality while remaining deeply rooted in Chicano culture.

The project reimagines Los Angeles not just as a physical place but as an emotional landscape shaped by memory, nostalgia and reinvention.

Written and directed by Paul Trillo.

Original art by Paul Flores.

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