Director : Juanjo Guarnido Artist : Freak Kitchen Title: Freak of the week written by ; Mattias IA Eklundh taken from the album "Cooking with Pagans" FK Facebook Label : Thunderstruck Productions contact: info@tsproductions.dk
***** It's true, also when they sing wildlife comes! I enjoy the song don't care if it's not metal enough for most metal heads or whatever (don't really care what genre something comes from just as long as I enjoy it), but the music video harkens back to animation I love, so it was a double whammy.
musashidanmcgrath Yep I'm aware, that's why it pleases me, disney these days seems to be pulling away form the old animation style which had the most lovely hair movements. Not downing CGI as its progressing nicely but I miss animated hair like this.
Woah haha. Didn't expect you here! Big fan of Freak Kitchen as well as all of the things you've done concerning FNAF :) especially "Since You've Been Gone"!
I found this a few days ago and I LOVED IT. But now I have a funny story about it. Today I was at my 2d animation class and I told my teacher "Hey, I found a music video made with a combination with 2d and 3d animation. I really liked it" I put it in class, in the big screen we have, and he just looked at me and said "Have you seen the credits?" Then I saw 5:07 . My teacher's name is Vittorio Pirajno and he worked on this goddamn video. I think I see him as a god now.
Fun fact: The characters were drawn over their 3D models to handle the complex volume and perspective. Eg. 3:02 - 3:06 It goes to show that 3D doesn't replace 2D but improves it by making it more efficient for 2D animators.
I disagree entirely because when you see that shot you can tell it's CGI. If it actually enhanced the animation, you wouldn't be able to tell and I feel like the lack of imperfections caused by the human hand just makes it all the more more apparent.
Sure the hair is gorgeous but has anybody noticed the hands yet? Most of the time In animation guitar/bass players fret hand usually just goes up and down with minimal finger movement (giggity) but in this one the hands actually have legit looking movements
The lead animator is a Disney vetaran. Any animator worth their salt studies the movements the characters would do and it always makes it better. It's very hard. My team I was on had to animate a girl missing her leg. We had to find references. So they probably spent hours just reviewing footage of freak kitchen performing the song. So much commitment
I love how the song is basically about dumbass people doing stupid stunts as a cheap and quick way of getting attention, while in contrast the people who worked on this not only clearly worked their asses to powder in order to get it done, but have obviously been doing this for quite awhile to deliver such polished work.
@Brutal Beat Oh, I'm pretty sure this song was not refering to people with physical oddities, but 'freaks' in this context was refering to class-clown showboats who need to draw attention to themselves by doing stupid and dangerous things.
Georges Abolin who worked on this animation is ex Disney during their hand drawn days. If any of you were wondering why it looks like 90's Disney animation. His projects: (1994) - The Return of Jafar (Animator: Sydney) (1995) - A Goofy Movie (Animator: Sydney) (1996) - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Additional animator) (1997) - Hercules (Animator: Adult Hercules) (1999) - Tarzan (Animator: Tarzan) (2001) - Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Animator: Miscellaneous) (2003) - The Jungle Book 2 (Additional animation production) (2003) - Brother Bear (Additional animator) (2006) - Bambi II (Animator: Bambi) (2006) - Brother Bear 2 (Animator) (2006) - The Little Matchgirl (Animator)
ATLANTIS that makes so much sense I knew there was a Disney animator on the team for this vid but I felt like there was something specific that I especially recognized
On top of the absolute beast of a song, and the stellar animation, the subtle commentary on the similarities between old circus freak shows and how far some people are willing to go for social media fame just sells this for me.
That’s why like the best Disney movies are the old ones like bambi lilo and stitch and lion king animations but it cost lots too make that’s the only downside cost and time
Man, coming back to this after so many years, after seeing the stuff that i have, how internet trends have evolved, how widespread the attention they can get is and the more and more depraved and insane the lengths people will go to for attention makes me realize that this song just seems to get more and more relevant as time goes on. Not only has it aged well, it has aged like a fine wine, with it just becoming more and more true as years go on.
DesignzRUs1 At least the Japanese still do anime but I want to see more western hand-drawn animation that isn't all flash and CG, something like classic Disney.
jhhwild I agree completely. I've always been a fan of older animation. Don't get me wrong.....some CGI is amazing but still.......why limit ourselves to just that?
The animation is sooooo smooth. Like by god, out of everything I've seen. This is something you would see a massive animation studio do for a movie or such. Ugh I want more of this animation.
@@doginhat13 fun fact, that is many thousands of dollars less than the average music video of this length. What all the others are doing to spend that much, I don't know?
I love the fact that this studio (fortiche production) have animated the Arcane series, I hope seeing projects coming from these guys, they have too much potential for making a lot of things
you know, i really like this video. not even just because of the beautiful animation. at first with just the audio, one might think "oh haha, crazy kids and their attempts at attention. this is about them.". but then you get to the video. the vintage clips of sideshows and fairgrounds (which is really cool as someone who loves amusement park history) suggest that the desire to do crazy bullshit is an eternal human condition. it is a tale as old as time. and thats dope as hell to me for some reason. were just a bunch of hyper advanced monkeys tryna keep busy in our cosmically short time. fuckin love it.
I saw this video for the first time off of Tumblr today and was blown away by seeing such old school Disney style animation tossed in with a little Iron Giant and crossed with rotoscoping. The feel of the character's expressions right down to that sketchy line work of the old classics that i love. Animation like this is rare to find and I will take it over those complete 3D animated movies any day. Keep doing what you love to do!
I need a LOT more of all of this. I have watched this video over and over and over again, completely hypnotized by the animations. I've never seen this style in this sort of more serious tone and it's incredible. Every single contour of every single stroke in all of the animation, I can't seem to stop studying it over and over again. Hair, fangs, eyes, expression, thick lines, thin lines, how they morph and transition. Why is there not more of this incredible work to see?! And I don't mean this vid, I mean the creators. I crave the styles so much. I suspect this style - if these guys/you guys are the animators of some of my most beloved movies - is part of what influenced me as an artist today. My style, the LIFE in it, everything. Please make more content.
+Reigne Wolvenshire I should also comment that the music is amazing. Both visual and audio goes together so well- this is practically a unicorn of a piece. Fabled beauty so rare it's unbelievable. Such is my admiration and love.
+Reigne Wolvenshire Thank you for your enthusiastic comments. Unfortunately, not ONE single TV channel in the whole world has ever programmed this video. It took a full year of effort and passion for my team and me to make it, and I am proud as hell of it. But also ruined. No more animation content from me in a while. You can read my comic books, though. Best, J
I'll look you up! I was thinking how much work has gone into every single frame of this, aye. You'll recover from the burn out eventually! I look forward to your content. :)
What truly makes my jaw drop every time I see this is the not only the sheer passion and understanding of animation going into this, but the knowledge that this is also directed by the incredibly talented artist for the Blacksad series. The fact that Juanjo's art is so consistently high-quality is a goal that most artists dream of reaching :)
This animation is why the Disney 2D animation department needs to come back...or a different department filled with these amazing animators needs to be created... Either way, please bring back 2D animation. I appreciate 3D, and know that there are a lot of things you can do with it, but 3D just doesn't have the same...impact, as 2D...
I totally agree and honestly I really miss 2d animation. It's really the main reason why I even considered clicking on this video. Don't get me wrong a lot of the 3d animations today are good but you have to follow a certain set of guidelines as the program can easily bug out with 2d this doesn't happen. Seriously, you can go from a super realistic style one second then you can change it to look like a 5 year old was animating.
The phrasing between the end of the verses and the line "like me" gives off this cool double meaning. Become and amputee like me. (Become an amputee. Like me.) then asking "Won't you, like me?". In addition to asking them to "like me" in a video rating sense, it's also inviting them to do dumb things to achieve the same kind of superficial popularity. Who's leading the way like me? Comes off like a dare; like you should do it too. It's fucking clever lyricism.
and most people just think its a badass metal song with amazing Disney-like graphics. yet here we have one of the last remaining intellectuals who understands that not everything is as it seems. bravo good madam. in all seriousness i thought i was the only one who got the double meaning. reading your comment has somewhat restored some faith that humans might go back to a path of intelligence. there's a slim chance, but a slim one is always better than none.
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I came for the animation, and came back for the music and animation. Am I the only one who thinks the song is a badass commentary on how people will hurt themselves for public attention? I love the way it sounds, fun, epic, just all in all amazing :D .
I just can't stop watching this video. Not only does it make me remember fond times watching great animated movies in my youth, but I went and found more music by these guys and I'm in love. Sad this video isn't more popular than it currently is though :(. Also can we agree that breakdown and solo are fucking great?
Mattias is a genius. If he was from US, he would be huge because his music hits all the age and genres categories. So much humor in it as well. But he is from Sweden and that's it. Not that I care. I dig everything and anything that's good. But the American music market is so self-centered as no other.
@@RavenReach I get it, believe me. I am originally from Europe. This music is more or less dead in US when it comes to wide popularity. Bands are happy to fill up small clubs anymore. I think the quantizing along with other things like lack of anything new that would look like a instantly recognizable brand caused the decline. Look at Vai, for example. The man ran out of ideas roughly 15 years ago. Anything new he does is not really new, it's just rehash of his older stuff he got stuck in. Also, if you listen to early Haken (first 2 albums), they are really exciting and fun. Everything after that is just so much perfection and quantizing and so ridiculously complex that it loses rock's or metal's original catch - the simple idea, riff or lick that rocked the stadiums. Even Ekhlund is really difficult to listen to. I can never get through any of his albums from beginning to the end. Rock or metal reached its limits and just like all the other modern music, it's just rehashing itself. It's not reinventing itself and I don't think it will be able to. There won't be another Blackfoot or Deep Purple or Van Halen. The raw energy, the fun, those fantastic riffs. It's just not there. It moved from big stadiums to small clubs for a reason. And it's not because of low IQ of listeners. The only band that truly got me fired again after listening to so much lame stuff lately is "Lost In Thought". Fantastic band, fantastic music. But are they big? Not a chance. The interest is simply not there anymore. And that's a big fan of rock and progmetal talking here. I enjoy what's left and that's all I can do
@@xthrax ...which means they went through the process of animating it in 3D before they drew a single frame. So yeah, I bet it still took a while. Using the 3D like that improved the final quality, but I doubt it saved them much time.
@@GuitarWholesale That may be so, but I *do* know how long it takes to animate things in 3d. ESPECIALLY if you're starting from scratch and have to make all the models and such.
* Sees drummer and gets a crush *: aww whats the point he is just a drawn out fictional charac- * Sees ending of real people *: *sniffle dreams do come true-*
You all chicks here and that's want you get from it they look attractive not the fact of how could the animation is and that a guy who worked for Disney was on the team
in terms of the song "thumbs up" in terms of art style, 90's Disney because back then their artists has skill and didn't make their characters with a child's head on an adult body. plus the pencil look with the line work really brings it all out. great job
I'm pretty sure Don Bluth is the reason why Disney corporation has added in statute of limitations for their animators once they leave their company. If I remember right, it is around "10 years" before they're allowed to work in the industry by any other company. In my opinion it is a bullshit limitation, although I may be outdated on my sources, they may have lessened things... anyways, the only person who I know was able to snub them has been Robin Williams and his role as Genie.
Yeah, Disney's done lots of great stuff and the entertainment industry as a whole wouldn't be where it is today without them, but they definitely have their darker side; a great example of this that also affects the whole industry is the changes to copyright law they've lobbied to prevent Mickey Mouse (and by extension everything else) to fall into the public domain. This means that in a few years' time virtually nothing "new" will enter public domain (because the law affects everything else, not just Disney's stuff), but it's also rather hypocritical considering that their fame and fortune as a company was built in large part due to them using public domain works to make their own stuff. This will likely have bad consequences for creative works as a whole that will only get worse as time goes by.
Ok The singer looks like a more human beast from Beauty and the beast The bassist looks like every fantasy dwarf ever And the drummer looks like a Swedish Tarzan
+masterredwood My thoughts exactly. For me, it could have been a lot heavier and grittier. Then I'd have liked it a lot more. Too pop-metal for my taste.
10000th time watching this but I just love how the lyrics reference the modern "people will do anything for likes" culture, but the music video shows a bunch of black and white footage of older dangerous stunts to show that this behavior isn't entirely new among people. Not exactly a comforting thought, but an important detail not to be forgotten.
Hhhhnnggggnnnn! Juanjo Guarnido is SO GOOD, and this is an excellent song. Such a good use of CG and hand-drawn animation together (not just in compositing, but the use of CG in the planning for the hand-drawn master is subtle and very well done). It's beautiful, fluid, relevant, and visually rich. Really, well done!
***** I'm pretty sure it's drawn over keyframed 3D animation. Not most of it, and not the effects (those I'm pretty sure are just hand drawn frame-by-frame, but the big camera moves are too good and the slow motion is too consistent to be only hand drawn.
***** I don't know where my other reply to you went. Must have gotten lost, but I didn't think the characters were 3d other than using 3d stand-ins for the big camera shots, and I don't think pretty much any of this is mocap. The keys are too good, so I'm inclined to think that it's mostly video-referenced keyframe animation. Also, if you play the video at 0.25x speed and watch the characters at 0:48, you'll see they switch between ones, twos, and threes depending on how fast they're moving -- something that almost never happens in rotoscope (go look at monster house to see how bad mocap/rotoscope can be). I'm about 90% sure 0:52 isn't rotoscope for the reasons above. The instruments and environment are in 3d and all the shots were planned in 3d from what I can tell. Anyway, I finally found some pencil tests, and I'm pretty sure I'm right ca-tsuka.tumblr.com/post/103903797558/freak-kitchen-freak-of-the-week-linetests-music
Everyone commenting about the video, can we just take into consideration about the quality of the production on the audio, it's easily the best mixed and mastered song I've probably heard can hear every idosyncrasy from each instrument and Ia's vocals sound super crisp
+El Cid It's so weird to see this comment, and realize how old this video actually is. Such a shame 2D animation isn't as prevalent as 3D is nowadays, considering how detailed and how much love and care was put into it.
I keep rewatching this, and noticing more subtle animations that really bring this to life, it's so well done, like when the singer goes to help the other guy up, the little flinch of his head like he's about to hit him for more "likes", it just makes them feel so much more 'alive', wish there was more animation this fluid and smooth in the world
Holy fucking shit man, I logged in just so I could like this. The whole thing start to finish is fucking gorgeous and stunning and you can absolutely see all the hard work that went into it. Shame that it hasn't gotten the recognition it truly deserves. Things like this reinforce my love and absolute preference for 2D animation, so much more alive and with more fluidity than its fully 3D counterpart. That animation like this hardly exists anymore is fucking criminal honestly. This is so completely captivating and it makes me sad that it hasn't reached a bigger audience. You and your team did a wonderful job.
2.5D is closer to something like RWBY, if you haven’t seen that it’s 3D animation that still uses 2D aspects mostly for the face. This is rotoscoping which means they rendered 3d models and drew 2d over it, yet keeping the 3d background. With this specific time consuming animation choice they can make remarkable camera panning of the 2d drawn characters.
@@user-go3op9qu5v The guy who worked on this animation also worked for Disney. The style is exactly like old Disney like when the Aristocats came out. They even reference it at 2:20 when he hits the symbol on his head. There is even a comment on here somewhere, where the OP actually showed this video to his animation teacher who asked him if he looked at the credits where his name was.
