Animation

In 2013 I was asked to animate a music video for the song Lusaka by night by John Wizards. I’ve made five full length and one short music video animations since then. Each of them was made in their own idiosyncratic way.

2013 - Lusaka by Night was made by drawing 13 ‘full-page’ scenes, which I then cut up into hundreds of pieces that were selectively displayed/hidden. You can see the original drawings here: Lusaka by Night zine.

2014  - Muizenberg was pretty straightforward. I drew all of the elements by hand with pen on paper, took photos of these elements and combined them into frames (adding colour on Photoshop).

2014 - Snake Highway is short andunnecessarily complicated. I created elaborate ‘actions’ in Photoshop that would compound across frames to create motion paths etc. If I were simply using animation software this would have been a very straightforward exercise. I even went as far as using a tool that Adobe makes available that ‘sniffs’ the code that Photoshop executes, to get control over settings that were not accessible through the user interface. I honestly do not know why I did this 😂️.

2014 - Wild Motion was also straightforward in that I just drew all of the elements with chalk pastels on black paper, took photos and combined them into an animation.

2014 - Skyscraper Souls was made in a faux-3D style. I drew elements, which I took photos of and made high contrast. I then turned off the lights and closed the blinds. I then took photos of the elements on my computer screen and moved the camera as I did so to create the effect of 3D. I then combiend these together into an animation.

Because of label schenanigans the song was never actually released. I made this 2016 remix video using own of my own songs.

2015 - Protein Shake was made with Jenna Bass for DOODVENOOTSKAP, a rap crew from Lavender Hill in Cape Town. Jenna filmed the crew and friends performing in front of a DIY green-screen in one of their backyards and edited the footage into a video for the song with a blank green screen. We then asked them for a list of crazy things to put into the background. I spent a few days downloading thousands of images of this stuff from the internet and combined it together on top of the video that Jenna had made. The result is mind-bending.