Animated Music Videos-will they make a comeback?

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I recall some of the videos of the '80s and '90s-

Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer and Big Time
Weird Al's Beverly Hills and Jurassic Park
Opposites Attract which featured M.C. Skat Kat
A-Ha's Take on Me

I have seen some Gorillaz videos but other than that will animated music videos make a comeback?
 
It's possible. All of the videos from Weird Al's last album except for 'White & Nerdy' were animated.

But then again, what would be the point? It's not like MTV and VH1 make it a priority to actually air videos anymore, so why put any special effort into making an animated video when the two major t.v. outlets that existed to show them off don't even exist anymore?
 
I'd like to see animated music videos return. Personally, every time I hear a song, I can't help but visualize a video for it in my head, and I've studied animation at such length that every video I conceptualize takes on the qualities of a cartoon. It gets to the point where I start thinking up AMVs that would actually pay tribute to other aspects of the animated world by re-creating famous cartoons from the past and so on. It's kinda complicated, but that's how my mind works, I guess.
 
I think it would be pretty cool to have some more animated music videos, but with MTV and VH1, I don't think they would be into it with their showing of "I Love Money" and "The Hills".

I think they're moving on from videos to reality shows now in my opinion. They play videos in the morning, late night and TRL, and it makes me wonder if they will completely abandon music videos all together in a few years. Who knows? (But they have to have the Video Music Awards, so not in quite a while. :shrug:)

I remember a few: Linkin Park "Breaking the Habit," Kanye West "Heard Em' Say," and I'm not sure about this one, but didn't Michael Jackson have two? One in Claymation back sometime in the 80's perhaps? My mind thinks it's "Speed Chase" or something to that extent where he's trying to get away from fans and transforms into a rabbit. The other was him in paper cutouts traveling in a toy rocketship singing the lyrics "Leave Me Alone?

If anyone knows, thanks!
 
"Comeback" implies they ware actually common then. You mentioned some memorable videos, but that hardly means that animated videos were common back then. In fact, the ones you mentioned may be pretty much it from the 80s....

Between the Gorrillaz, Daft Punk, 'Breaking the Habit,' that A-Ha-like Incubus video from a few years back, that animated video that Britney tried to put out recently....Between all those, we probably have more animated music videos now than we did back then.
 
Yeah, I'm not even sure if animated music videos were popular enough to have a "comeback" as you put it. I know that there were some during the 80s and early 90s, but I don't think that much. Besides that, MTV and VH1 don't really play that many music videos at all outside of the morning and late at night. They seem to be more interested in so-called reality shows nowadays. To be honest, the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this thread's title was YouTube since that's the main place you can actually find animated music videos. Fan made ones, of course, but those could still count for something.
 
Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" is still my favorite animated video. It was pretty groundbreaking at the time, I believe. Wasn't it the first--or one of the first--fully animated videos?
 
Most of them are just random weirdos for the sake of being random weirdos. I don't really care about those. But Gorillaz is frikin awosome.

And and... Pink FLoyd the Wall anyone? I don't hear much talk about it but it's for sure one of the most imaginative original animation in history and it's actually extremely skilled unlike most experimental animation. Try Pink FLoyd - The Trial, Waiting for the Worms (the famous hammer march), Empty Spaces or Goodbye Blue SKy
 
Two of my most favorite animated music videos are the Rolling Stones' "Harlem Shuffle" and Bjork's "I Miss You". I just love having an attractive woman appear as a both a cartoon and a live-action character.
 
Uh, I don't think they ever went away. Once someone realized you could use animation for music video's they've always been lurking off to the side over there. I think the Beatles did it first. Yellow Submarine anyone? XD

Do you mean completely animated or stuff with animation elements? A LOT of video's have some animation in there somewhere. Off the top of my head... Franz Ferdinand has a bunch of animated video's, Modest Mouse has a couple, Matchbox Twenty has one or two... Daft Punk, Gorillaz and Weird Al have already been mentioned, er... Barenaked Ladies have a couple to my knowledge, Incubus likes to play around with it (Brandon Boyd and... crap what's the fro guys name? actualy animated the animated bits of the Dive video themselves) Linkin Park, Mika - I don't remember who else. XD
 
They also had animated videos in Micheal Jackson's Moonwalker-there was one he did with Spike the Rabbit. Does anyone remember those?

I think a clay-version of Speilberg and the Noid cameoed in those.
 
Yes. Breaking the Habit by Linkin Park was an AMAZING video. Too bad it never caught on and got imitated by other bands more. That's one instance in which I wouldn't mind copycat examples...I mean think about it, if no one imitated Tezuka without his permission, whether it's the eyes or the pacing, we wouldn't have ANY modern anime looking the way that it does. Sure some people are rip-off artists, but some are just influenced by powerful visuals. In some instance, copying from others is okay. Anime studios today got as good as they are mostly from indirectly imitating eachother's styles. They clearly don't need places like CalArts (good as it is) over in Japan. They just teach themselves and learn from their fellow artists. But there is a consistent look to anime in some ways. Not too much though, IMO. I suspect that's part of what subliminally (on some level) motivates anime haters to criticize it with the oh so popular phrase "it all looks the same" or "it's all the same garbage". Nothing could be further from the truth. Everybody steals from somebody, when they're first getting started. Some just make their imitation obvious than others. For example, Nyanko-Chan over at DeviantART obviously imitated Bleach a lot in the beginning, but look how innovative and impressive she is for an American artist today. She's Totally Awesome in terms of artwork. Just as good as many Japanese artists, and she's American.

Sorry for diverging the thread topic.
 
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