My latest music video for Randolph's Leap was officially launched by Fence Records on Wednesday morning.
It is for their new single, News, which is available to download from here.
The 85-second animated video is based upon the concept of synesthesia, and inspired by the experimental film work of Len Lye, Oskar Fischinger, & Norman McLaren, amongst others (including Walt Disney's Fantasia).
Created over the past 6 weeks, it is all animated by hand with a range of materials including: Pencils, watercolours, ink, charcoal, the odd digital painting, paper, card, newspaper,and even denim!
Each hand-made frame of animation was produced at a size of either 50mms wide (mainly just for coloured backgrounds), or a tiny 18mms to help give the movements a lively organic energy.
I'll try posting some behind-the-scenes stuff about the making-of later this month.
Saturday, 16 February 2013
Friday, 1 February 2013
What is... February
My 2013 calendar image for February is a seascape from the west coast of Scotland.
I was commissioned to paint this watercolour, of somewhere near Campbeltown (I think?), very nearly 2 years ago, and to this day it proudly hangs mounted & framed in the owner's home.
For lack of anything else to say, I'll add a shameless plug: Painting commissions start from £50 for an A4-sized watercolour on card, but there are plenty other options available, including different sizes, materials, mounting & framing. Please e-mail me with any enquires at: andyrmacpherson@gmail.com
Monday, 21 January 2013
New music video: Influences
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| A selection of visual influences for my new music video (more details below). |
An Optical Poem (1938). Oskar Fischinger.
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/1b6wAr7knYw/
Swinging The Lambeth Walk (1939). Len Lye.
http://youtu.be/Q57lUSz0Oyw
Fantasia (1940). Walt Disney Studios.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOtFR5WG9K8
Carmen Torero (1996). Aleksandra Korejwo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZJSNOtEE_Y
Russian architecture & design.
Loudmouth golf designs.
Monday, 14 January 2013
New music video in development
I'm busy producing a new animated music video for Glasgow-based genre-defying band, Randolph's Leap.
Having previously produced their music video for Counting Sheep (2011), I was recently contacted about making another video for them.
But this time, instead of utilising a mix of live-action & pixelation, this new video will be animated entirely with a hand-made abstract style similar to one of my old audio/visual experiments, Synesthesia (2008).
The production deadline is the end of January, ahead of a launch gig in Edinburgh next month: This is a little tight for my liking (particularly with my real job & a few other projects competing for my time) but it should be an interesting - and hopefully fun - project.
I'll try to post some of the influences & behind-the-scenes stuff over the coming days/weeks, so stayed tuned.
Having previously produced their music video for Counting Sheep (2011), I was recently contacted about making another video for them.
But this time, instead of utilising a mix of live-action & pixelation, this new video will be animated entirely with a hand-made abstract style similar to one of my old audio/visual experiments, Synesthesia (2008).
The production deadline is the end of January, ahead of a launch gig in Edinburgh next month: This is a little tight for my liking (particularly with my real job & a few other projects competing for my time) but it should be an interesting - and hopefully fun - project.
I'll try to post some of the influences & behind-the-scenes stuff over the coming days/weeks, so stayed tuned.
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