Dynamic, colourful patterns represent the way organisms interact and evolve in the visuals for Max Cooper's latest music video, which was directed by Maxime Teresuac. The video came about after ...
An anthropomorphised dog and duck embark on a summer fling in the city of Bergen in Kakkmaddafakka's new music video, which was directed by Carlín Díaz. Illustrated and directed by Díaz, the v...
A series of digital triggers set off several hundred events in the video for OK Go's The One Moment, which was filmed in just four seconds. The video for the band's new track was directed by lead...
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/11/26/ok-gos-latest-music-video-filmed-four-seconds/
To create the visuals for Fraction's music video, director Julius Horsthuis used software that generates "unpredictable and infinitely complex shapes". Horsthuis met the electronic dance act whil...
For Keøma's new music video, Dirk Rauscher created a series of sculptural figures that gradually evolve and crumble away. Having previously created live visuals for the German band's show, Rausc...
Simon Landrein depicts the chain reaction that follows after a woman falls in love with a random man in Coco Banana's Earthquaker music video. For the video, the London-based illustrator stuck to...
Eyeballs, tentacles and weird machinery inhabit the peculiar forest Roof Studio designed for Empire of the Sun's High and Low music video. The film follows a group of people as they are led into...
German animator Moritz Reichartz created a new world filled with fluid forms and dancing goo figures for a track by OY. Reichartz was simply tasked with creating a film with a storyline, and came...
Director Jonathan Chong used a combination of projection mapping, 3D printing, stop-motion and animation to create the video for Dan Sultan's Magnetic track. Sultan briefed Chong to create a vide...
For Jerry Folk's Kids music video, French visual artist Quentin Deronzier used Cinema 4D to create hypnotic visuals that document the transition from childhood to adulthood. The Kids track is par...
Music: London animator Jack Brown used oil pastels to create an animation of a woman on a journey of self discovery for Doe Paoro's The Wind track (+ movie). The film depicts a story of an woman ...
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/09/24/wind-woman-dream-environment-doe-paoro-music-video/
Gustaf Holtenäs based his animated video for Russian musician Mitya's track Fabula Spatium on surreal sci-fi art from the 1970s (+ movie). The Swedish artist was approached by Mitya to create a...
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/09/17/gustaf-holtenas-space-cartoon-fabula-spatium-music-video/
Musician and director Kamiel Rongen has reused his method of mixing materials inside a fishbowl to create the music video for Tunisian band Yuma's track Laya Snin (+ movie). Yuma approached Ronge...
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/09/10/laya-snin-track-yuma-music-video-visuals-kamiel-rongen/
Illustration duo Mrzyk & Moriceau's music video for The Avalanches' track Subways features a collection of colourful characters embarking on a surreal underground journey (+ movie). The video is...
Music: the face of Australian actor Cate Blanchett decays to a mummy-like state in the music video for Massive Attack's The Spoils track (+ movie). Acclaimed Australian film director John Hillcoa...
Music: a boy is seduced and then poisoned by a "beautiful mutant flower" that turns him into a tree and forces him to leave his girlfriend in Péter Vácz's video for James' Dear John track (+ mo...
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/08/06/video-peter-vacz-director-james-music-animation/
Music: after eating some strange eggs, a girl goes through an "inner metamorphosis" controlled by an octopus in Barcelona-based director Alan Masferrer's music video for Netherlands band Klyne. A...
Music: Religious rituals and 90s dance movements inspired the thousands of dancing men in De Staat's Witch Doctor music video (+ movie). Studio Smack, the Dutch production team behind the video, ...
Music: Japanese production studio Party is live streaming its music video for Androp's track Hana onto a bunch of white lilies (+ movie). Throughout the duration of the live stream, a prerecorde...
Music: animation studio Parallel Teeth has designed an abstract world of disembodied eyeballs and dancing shapes for Ladi6's Beffy music video (+ movie). The film follows a main character in a ...
Music: Belgian studio Framekit based its animated music video for French band Toybloïd's track If You Dare on road trip films from the 1960s and 1970s (+ movie). In the video, the band goes from...
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/07/02/if-you-dare-toybloid-framekit-music-project-video-animation/
Music: musician and director Kamiel Rongen mixed water and oil with paint, sugar, and even an air freshener to create a series of misty surreal landscapes for this music video (+ movie). Rongen ...
Music: Berlin-based studio A Nice Idea Every Day explores the relationship between boss and employee via various social media outlets in this new music video. Vivien Weyrauch and Fabian Röttger ...
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/06/18/a-nice-idea-every-day-peter-bjorn-john-track-music-video-snapchat/
Music: New York directing collective New Media Limited takes hand-painted clay characters on a Hansel and Gretel-inspired adventure in the music video for Yeasayer's Silly Me track. New Media Li...
Music: inspired by her travels to Japan, Melbourne-based director Tessa Chong has depicted a "moving tapestry of city life" for Super Magic Hats' track Transpose (+ movie). Illustrator Chong was ...
Music: Brooklyn director Ken Edge's video for American musician K Flay's FML track follows the journey of a young girl fighting an internal battle between good and evil. Edge, who has produced il...
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/05/21/ken-edge-k-flay-fml-track-music-video-girl-tames-evil/
Directors Marie Larrivé and Lucas Malbrun depict the journey of a young man and his psychologist in the music video for French band Gable's Tropicool. Larrivé and Malbrun were contacted by Gabl...
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/05/14/marie-larrive-lucas-malbrun-animate-gable-tropicool-music-video/
Music: Bristol-based director Ruffmercy has combined archive footage of J Dilla with hand-drawn animation in the music video for the late American rapper's most recent posthumous track The Sickne...
Music: colourful swirling graphics create a lost girl's fantasy world in animator Sabine Volkert's music video for Koloto's track Fay. The collaboration came about after Volkert – a graduate fr...
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/04/23/sabine-volkert-liquid-motion-animated-music-video-koloto-fay/
Music: horses canter along highways and through city streets in French director Quentin Baillieux's music video for Can You Do It by Charles X (+ movie). Illustrated as a cross between an elite ...
Music: facial features materialise from an ever-changing background of geometric graphics in Irish director Kevin McGloughlin's music video for End of the Trail by Shit Robot. The management for ...
Music: inky illustrations based on Japanese comics wash across the frame during the music video by Tokyo animator Que for DJ Vague's track Freakout. Contacted by Atlanta-based DJ Vague's record l...
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/03/12/freakout-music-video-japanese-cartoons-inform-que-dj-vague/
Music: director and choreographer Trish Sie tells Dezeen about how she worked with US band OK Go to create the gravity-defying stunts in the music video for the track Upside Down & Inside Out (+ ...
London-based director Fernando Lazzari combined 3D animation with 360 degree images of natural environments to develop a "unique universe" in the music video for Reid Willis' The Slow Knife (+...
Music: audiovisual artist Kamiel Rongen used his own frozen urine to create visuals in the music video for Dutch musician Marle Thomson's debut track Levitation (+ movie). To create the video, Ro...
Music: a dancer gradually becomes a 3D-printed version of herself in Dom&Nic's music video for UK electronic act The Chemical Brothers' track Wide Open (+ movie). When the time came to create a v...
Music: animator Anna Ginsburg has designed a psychedelic cast of colourful helmeted characters for Scottish musician Steve Mason's Planet Sizes music video. The film opens with what appears to b...
Music: American director Kris Merc has created an animated tale of a hooded outlaw on a mission for English rock band James' To My Surprise music video. The film starts by following a mysterious ...
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/02/james-to-my-surprise-music-video-kris-merc-animation/
Music: German designer Michael Fragstein used digital 3D modelling to create forests and landscapes populated by miniature figures for Berlin group Dan Freeman and the Serious' Dagner music vid...
Music: German animation studio Schnellebuntebilder used an XBox Kinect sensor to record glitchy footage of electronic trio Sissi Rada for their Sunday music video. The film sandwiches ever-shifti...
Music: Vienna studio LWZ used familiar computer icons and Google Maps motifs to create this music video that flies over an animated world for Austrian electronic duo Ogris Debris. The film opens...
Music: paper puppeteer and animator Winston Hacking has created a series of moving collages for the video to accompany Soupcans' Siamese Brutality track. The filmmaker was invited by the Canadian...
Music: a plasticine character called Tronald Dump wreaks havoc on a once-happy model town in director Chris Ullens' video to accompany a track by Kill the Noise. London-based Belgian director C...
Music: Japanese animator Hideki Inaba has designed an imaginary ocean world of plants and squid-like creatures for the video of Beatsofreen track Slowly Rising. The film opens with a single ste...
Music: American animator Jeanette Lee borrowed the shapes of Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower to create a science-fiction urban landscape for Dewy Sinatra's In My Bubble music video. The film opens...
Music: director Alan Del Rio Ortiz transports musician Petite Noir into patterned digital environments for his La Vie Est Belle music video. Petite Noir – AKA Yannick Ilunga – was on a tight ...
https://www.dezeen.com/2015/10/31/petite-noir-la-vie-est-belle-music-video-alan-del-rio-ortiz/
Music: director Ben Jones has collaborated with experimental rock band Battles on a riotous animation-heavy film that questions society's addiction to "screen time". Dot Net is the first in a s...
https://www.dezeen.com/2015/10/24/dot-net-music-video-battles-ben-jones-animation-graphics/
Music: animator and director Danny Madden of Ornana Films referred to the design of old French lithograph posters to create this multi-layered illustrated video for Pink Floyd vocalist and music...
https://www.dezeen.com/2015/10/17/girl-in-yellow-dress-music-video-animation-david-gilmour/
Music: director Kévin Bray used face-tracking and 3D-scanning technology to create digital doubles of musician Gwilym Gold for the video to accompany his Greener World track. Bray, who also wo...
https://www.dezeen.com/2015/10/10/kevin-bray-3d-scanning-gwilym-gold-greener-world-music-video/
Music: Amsterdam material designer Shai Langen made sculptural headpieces and covered models in hand-painted patterns for Jo Goes Hunting's Run Away music video. Langen was approached by the Dut...
https://www.dezeen.com/2015/10/03/shai-langen-jo-goes-hunting-run-away-music-video-painted-bodies/