Category: Music Video Spotlight (Page 1 of 70)

Synopsis: Arcadia is an 80’s inspired, fantasy, LGBTQ+ animated music video made by students of The Animation Workshop.

The project is a labor-of-love production, in which the team wanted to take a new spin on a classic tale, exploring subjects and themes they feel are important to represent.

Directed by Anton Skogsberg.

Song written by Clara “Nimue” Jangmark.

Crew (partial list):
Marie Jangmark – Animation and Storyboard Lead

Petra Medin – Animation, Storyboard and Color Lead

Lovisa Andersson – Character Design and Animation Lead

Julia Lund – FX Lead

Frances Nielsen – Animation Lead

Directed by Cady Buche and Travis Barron.

American Football is Mike Kinsella, Nate Kinsella, Steve Holmes and Steve Lamos.

“No Feeling” is from the album LP4.

Lyrics:
There’s nothing new to say or do
There’s nothing new to crave
Tell the doctors I’m done
The kids, “Adieu”
And Mother, “Désolé”
One last goodbye and one last kiss
One last dance with the Goddess Nyx

No feeling
No pain
No one to blame
Forever awaits
It’s just an eternal blank page

Some bones stand on their own
Some bones are carried
Mine are either, neither, or both –
They just ache to be buried

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Synopsis: Atlas — portrayed by K Sensei — literally carries the world on his back. Frozen like a marble statue, he is crushed by his burden until he begins to crack.

A Star, Malika, then moves through space: a radiant, free, and ever-moving figure, she embodies hope, guidance, and the possibility of transformation.

A symbol of light, renewal, and freedom, she gathers Atlas’s fragments back together, heals his fractures, and helps him rise — until wings emerge on his back: Atlas is no longer only a bearer, but becomes one who can ascend.

“Le monde” is from the EP De cendres et de larmes (From Ashes and Tears) by K Sensei.

Directed by Malika Whitaker.

Story by K Sensei.

“The Mountain” feat. Dennis Hopper & Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash.

“The Moon Cave” feat. Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda and Black Thought.

“The Sad God” feat. Black Thought, Ajay Prasanna and Anoushka Shankar.

From The Mountain, the ninth studio album by Gorillaz.

Directed by Jamie Hewlett, Tim McCourt, Max Taylor and Jonathan Djob Nkondo.

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

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.

“White Christmas” is from the album Christmas (Deluxe Special Edition).

Directed by Lior Molcho
Cinematography by Danit Sigler
Animated by Damon Wellner
Sculptures by Gabriel Garcia
Produced by Chen Biton
Edited by Danit Sigler
Set Design by Katie C. Shipley
Armatures by Jay Kyle
Moldmaking by Dan Adams
Seamstressing by Hana Shay Solomon

Leisure Hour is a midwest emo/pop punk band from Muncie, Indiana.

The single “Jenny” was released February, 2025. The band is currently on tour.

Vocals & Guitar: Isaiah Neal
Vocals & Bass: Grace Dudas
Drums: Raegan Gordon

Animated by: Chance Duffy
Art by: Taylor AW Duffy

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Caravan Palace is a French electro-swing band based in Paris.

“City Cook” is from their fifth studio album Gangbusters Melody Club, released in 2024.

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.

Directed and designed by Winston Hacking.

Stop motion animation by Philippe Tardif.

Cinematography by Winston Hacking and Philippe Tardif.

Foxwarren is Dallas Bryson, Avery Kissick, Darryl Kissick, Colin Nealis, and Andy Shauf.

“Listen2me” is from the album 2, available for purchase and to stream on all major streaming services.

Tomoaki Baba is a Japanese saxophonist who studied at the renowned Berklee College of Music. After graduating, Tomoaki moved to New York City and performed with artists such as Terence Blanchard, Dayna Stephens and Terri Lyne Carrington. He now resides in Japan.

Directed by Hoji Tsuchiya.
Character designs by Shotaro Kitada.
Animated by Hoji Tsuchiya and Shotaro Kitada.

Synopsis: A young man and three women are snowed in at a remote country house. The arrival of a mysterious newcomer slowly transforms how he sees his own desires and the way others see him.

Directed by Antoine Dahan, Clement Delaby and Rayan Takhedmit.

Nick Delffs’ single “Without Touching” is off the album Transitional Phase.

The music video follows a lonely widower and his search for sasquatch.

Director: Jon Sortland
Camera operator: David Nicholson
Monster fabricator: Elena Kasimova

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Directed by Cossa, an animator and illustrator based in Mexico City. Animated by Cossa and Hunter Thomson.

Kowloon is a one-man band and producer from Los Angeles. He writes, records and produces surrounded by vintage drum machines, tape decks, racks of compressors and early digital effects units.