Have you ever asked to yourselves: “How can a cartoon be cooler?” and answered: “There should be robots killing people randomly.”? Great, this videoclip is definitely what you need!
This is a 2010 track by Flying Lotus, a twisted californian genius who loves to experiment in the musical field (and has great skills doing it, for sure).
While realeasing his EP Pattern+Grid World he called Beeple to create a videoclip for Kill Your Co-Workers.
And Beeple created what can be called a politically-not-correct-cartoon with the help of Vince Ream.
I’ll give you my first impression, before talking about technique:
Every normal person in the world has seen at least once The Simpsons, right? Ok, take Itchy And Scratchy, transform them into big steely robots, send them to a nonsensical parade and you have Kill Your Co-Workers!
But this videoclip isn’t just gory and incredibly funny. It also features a top-notch graphic style.
Starting from very cool and modern drawings, Beeple and Ream modeled the 3D world and characters. Not a huge work: there isn’t a detailed realistic environment, or a high-level animation but a very nice result is obtained by giving life to this crazy scene. Why, you ask? Because they weren’t needed for what they had in mind.
The point is: they had a great starting idea, and very nice and strange drawings to work with. They added a nonsensical scene and then, blood and random gore elements just did the magic: a remarkably enjoyable robot apocalypse!
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