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October 30, 2014 5:25 AM Subscribe
"It just might be the most classically animated teeth-gnashing and hair-flipping metal you’ve seen in your lifetime." Master animator Juanjo Guarnido had a successful Kickstarter to assemble a killer crew to make a music video for the "face-meltingly awesome" Swedish metal band Freak Kitchen. The finished video Freak of the Week is a tour de force of Old Skool hand-drawn animation, and I believe it rocks pretty hard.
Guardino was a lead animator on Disney's Tarzan and is now notable as the multi-award winning artist of the hard-boiled anthropomorphic noir comic Blacksad.
Guardino was a lead animator on Disney's Tarzan and is now notable as the multi-award winning artist of the hard-boiled anthropomorphic noir comic Blacksad.
The music is neither here nor there for me but the animation is excellent!
posted by ardgedee at 5:37 AM on October 30, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by ardgedee at 5:37 AM on October 30, 2014 [2 favorites]
Yes, definitely Nelvana meets Don Bluth. Impressive.
posted by acroyear at 5:47 AM on October 30, 2014
posted by acroyear at 5:47 AM on October 30, 2014
I was very excited reading the title thinking this would be about the awesome 80's movie. Now, I'm kind of bummed and need to watch the movie again.
That said, definitely some awesome animation and music.
posted by ilama at 6:12 AM on October 30, 2014
That said, definitely some awesome animation and music.
posted by ilama at 6:12 AM on October 30, 2014
It rocks and I would even venture as far as to say that it also rolls.
Great animation style.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 7:15 AM on October 30, 2014
Great animation style.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 7:15 AM on October 30, 2014
Good stuff, although as a non-metalhead I keep hearing the chorus (especially the harmonisation and progression) as XTC doing a Dukes-of-Stratosphear-go-metal pastiche. Slowly and fitfully, the how to make art in the post-scarcity digital world questions are being answered.
Anyone want to Kickstarter my Another Green World set of themed short stories? From the cloud, come the words. All the words will float in sequence...
posted by Devonian at 8:50 AM on October 30, 2014
Anyone want to Kickstarter my Another Green World set of themed short stories? From the cloud, come the words. All the words will float in sequence...
posted by Devonian at 8:50 AM on October 30, 2014
This exhibits the strong influence of Bakshi with the subtle redolence of Gorillaz
posted by Toekneesan at 9:22 AM on October 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Toekneesan at 9:22 AM on October 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
as a non-metalhead I keep hearing the chorus (especially the harmonisation and progression) as XTC doing a Dukes-of-Stratosphear-go-metal pastiche
As a metalhead, that's a pretty spot on description. But I put it on mute, and the animation was great!
posted by DGStieber at 9:26 AM on October 30, 2014
As a metalhead, that's a pretty spot on description. But I put it on mute, and the animation was great!
posted by DGStieber at 9:26 AM on October 30, 2014
I keep hearing the chorus (especially the harmonisation and progression) as XTC doing a Dukes-of-Stratosphear-go-metal pastiche.
Yeah, the chorus in particular butts up against stuff I love about (the sadly now defunct) Fair To Midland, only much less art-rock and proggy.
posted by hippybear at 9:56 AM on October 30, 2014
Yeah, the chorus in particular butts up against stuff I love about (the sadly now defunct) Fair To Midland, only much less art-rock and proggy.
posted by hippybear at 9:56 AM on October 30, 2014
Still really weird to me to hear a metal singer talk about technology from the last 20 years. Space battles and robots sure, I can get behind that, but Youtube views and 1080p is weird me out.
posted by Space Coyote at 10:23 AM on October 30, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by Space Coyote at 10:23 AM on October 30, 2014 [2 favorites]
Meh. The music is like Disney Channel pop with more distortion. The visuals do not do a very good job of distracting from that. The lyrics are execrably teenagery.
Also, I've seen a bunch of those old clips in music videos before, back in the '90s. I think maybe in this and this, among others?
posted by Sys Rq at 12:34 PM on October 30, 2014
Also, I've seen a bunch of those old clips in music videos before, back in the '90s. I think maybe in this and this, among others?
posted by Sys Rq at 12:34 PM on October 30, 2014
The song is really boring, but it's very good animation. I don't know about "Old Skool hand-drawn animation", though, that video has a crapload of 3D modelling and CGI in it, pretty much everything but the characters, as far as I can tell.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 8:37 PM on October 30, 2014
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 8:37 PM on October 30, 2014
I don't really like Freak Kitchen's music although Matthias Eklundh's solo Freak Guitar albums are interesting if jazz Zappa-influenced guitar hero antics interest you. I got introduced to him by one of his students on IRC more than a decade ago who sent me low-bitrate mp3s of the first (and then only) Freak Guitar album.
posted by ersatz at 5:27 AM on November 1, 2014
posted by ersatz at 5:27 AM on November 1, 2014
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