Jesse Davidge
Director/Producer at Blatant Studios in Vancouver, Canada
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Mathemagick &mystiphysics : volume 2 Art
Working on the next volume of Mathemagick, we’re going for colour this time.
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Still Life Still - Kids
Music Video Treatment
Hey all, here’s images for a treatment I did for the band, “Still Life Still” for the song, “Kids”. I was going for something that brought people back to the glory days of high school, and all the problems that comes with.
The idea was to have chalk drawings animate as if you were drawing and then erasing them, so you would see the after image as the scene progressed. The story was going to be about a boy who’s parents are divorcing, and he decides to run away, but upon witnessing a meteor shower, he reconsiders.
I especially liked the idea of a boy running away with an airport bag full of toys and crackers, a very modern interpretation of a typical moment of youthful defiance.
More to come!
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Here’s another concept peice from a couple years ago. The band “Hurricane Cletis” asked me to help realize a mascot for the band.
After days of researching yokel mythology and rituals this is what I came up with.
A fun exercise incorporating the ink splatters which by today’s standards is SOOOO 2010, amirite?
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Video reblogged from The Vimeo Blog
New Sum(Nous sommes) - Hey Rosetta! by BLATANT
We love a good rotoscope animation, and Canadian indie rockers Hey Rosetta! deliver the goods with their music video for “New Sum(Nous sommes).” This one might even strum at your heartstrings.
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Thought I’d post the storyboards from the “New Sum” video, you can see some of the early ideas for the project.
Originally, there was going to be a couple that we see kiss, as well as, two friends meeting up and sharing a drink to introduce the connections people have at the concerts.
In the end I thought it was better to focus on Tim’s reaction to the threads without adding new characters to follow, but the idea is still in there.
I hope to do a reel soon that shows some of the layers we had to create for the video, its fun to see how we took the live action recording of the band and turned it into the rotoscoped wonder in the final video.
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Hey Rosetta!, “New Sum (Nous Sommes)”
Freshly nominated for a 2012 Juno award for New Group of the Year and set to perform at the award show in Toronto on April 1, Hey Rosetta! have released their newest music video for “New Sum (Nous Sommes)”, the latest single off of Seeds, their acclaimed debut album.
Directed by Jesse Davidge and produced at Blatant Studios in Vancouver, the video is stylishly painted, depicting the band as an animated act performing on stage. Filmed largely at the band’s sold–out gig at the Commodore, the video is a perfect fit to the album, a master work that has earned the band loads of notoriety since its release.
Look for the band on the 2012 Juno Awards, broadcast April 1 on CTV. Hey Rosetta! are currently on tour in the United States, returning briefly to Canadian audiences this month before heading to Europe. For more, visit them online at heyrosetta.com or on Twitter @heyrosetta.
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Easy Way Out by Gotye
Director Darcy Prendergast of Melbourne, Australia-based Oh Yeah Wow had one golden rule for this music video: “Nothing should be created in a computer. All of the elements were created in camera, then masterfully assembled by visual effects wizard Andrew Goldsmith. We animated the plasticine blood, the cat, the flames, the […] -
Here’s some of the concept images for the Hey Rosetta! video. These were created long before the finished product.
I used photos of the band for most of the concepts, except for the last image, thats a still from “The Social Network” Its RELEVANT RIGHT!?!
More to come!
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Here’s the video for “New Sum” I directed for the band, “Hey Rosetta!”. Pretty intense 3 month project but thanks to everyone who helped out, it came together. I’ll be posting more behind the scenes images in the coming days, maybe even some “3D” tests.
