We Have Band - You Came Out

“The face paint animation film is made up of 4,816 separate stills. Each and every frame was hand-painted, shot, wiped off and redrawn, slightly differently for the next frame in order to create a seamless sequence. This time-consuming process involved the band members lying still for two consecutive days in a studio.

In order to animate the singing bit, lip movement was created by animating a painted mouth on the singer Dede. This involved breaking the lyrics into phonetics and giving each sound a specific mouth shape. To make this as realistic as possible all the mouth shapes were painted on Dedes face individually and then shot.” (from Boing Boing about the Making Of which you can watch HERE)

Although it took way more than a day to shoot and edit, the incredible amount of patience and impressive creativity displayed to make this music video, we must post at least for inspiration!

Also worth noting, they put ALL the still frames up on Flickr. Which you can check out HERE.