Macphisto persona is ideally suited to animation, particularly in how it echoes the look of Batman’s archnemesis, the Joker.ījörk has made a number of animated videos, but the best is “I Miss You,” in which she appears as a cartoon illustrated by Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi. U2 wrote the space-age glam tune “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me” for the Batman Forever soundtrack, so it was only sensible that the group would appear as cartoons in this clip.
Kanye West teamed up with video legend Hype Williams for the “Heartless” video, a homage to Ralph Bakshi’s 1981 rotoscope animation classic American Pop.ĭarren Romanelli’s clip for Wilco‘s “Dawned On Me” has the distinction of being the first hand-drawn Popeye cartoon produced in a quarter century.Ī-Ha’s “Take On Me,” a staple of early MTV, is one of the most iconic animated clips, with live action mingling with some very stylishly drawn pencil illustrations.
Tool have made a number of animated videos, but Fred Stuhr’s stop-motion clip for their breakthrough hit “Sober” set the template for many disturbing videos to come down the line. Magnus Carlsson’s animated clip for Radiohead‘s “Paranoid Android” sidesteps the high-concept videos from the band’s previous album while highlighting the nightmarish absurdity of the lyrics. “19-2000,” one of their earliest clips, is most effective in getting across the charm of Hewlett’s goofy characters.
Pearl Jam swore off music videos after “Jeremy” blew up in 1992 but returned to the medium in 1999 with this animated clip for “Do the Evolution,” directed by comic book superstar Todd McFarlane.ĭamon Albarn’s Gorillaz project was originally conceived as the music for an animated band created by his collaborator, comics legend Jamie Hewlett. The video for Daft Punk‘s dance-pop classic “One More Time” features animation that would later appear in Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar System, a Japanese animated film set to the tune of the duo’s entire album, Discovery.
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