Doing live action & stop-motion, TOGETHER

Music videos can be fun, but when you are doing stop-motion, there are times you just want to chuck the chair across the room.

Friend and musician James Hersey was coming back to New York City for a short visit. I always wanted to do a music video for him. His music had a chill and cool vibe that I just dug.

So me and my old friend Hunter Baker wanted to make something simple but yet out of the box. I have been doing stop-motion for some years now and when Hunter came up with using a chalkboard and drawing on walls, I thought, "Hmm…what a great idea!"

The whole video took five days to make, with only five hours of live action and four and a half days of insane stop-motion.

All the animation was shot separately from James being in the frame. In fact James was shot live and then animated in post production. The most annoying thing about this was superimposing the image of James over the already animated chalk drawings. We then dubbed the footage of James in front of the VHS camera (which was really shot on the Cannon 5D) to actual VHS and then back to digital to create that video look.

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