The Making of LEAVING LA by Tee Ken Ng and Tim Minchin 

Tee Ken NG has the mapping in his brain for this art form the way Tim has the piano keys mapped in his brain. These two maps together take us to a transformation space for 5 minutes of time. What develops out of human potential is truly utterly incredible. This piece is a work of art.

Tim, If you want to still get your film finished. I for one would take part in crowdfunding it, because i've seen your work for years and i believe that an animated movie from your hands could be great.

I didn't realise it was ALL zoetrope - I presumed the singing bits were very very good CGI like you were talking about. Going back and watching again, it completely makes sense why you chose to do that, and makes the whole thing even more impressive! It's an absolutely stunning video and well worth all the absurdities and work of creating it!

LOVED seeing a peek at how this brilliant video came to be. We have watched it repeatedly, marveling at every moment. Thank you so much for sharing this Tim. And the song absolutely ROCKS too!!

Respect! I assumed it was all just computer animation created to look like a series of zoatropes, but to have actually made them as physical objects and then film them in motion is mind-blowing brilliance. Thank you for sharing this look behind the curtain.

How is it that Tim is a total genius, and was sat next to one at school too! What a classroom that must have been! What a great way to turn something that meant art was lost to the world, into something where art is reborn! The metaphor is so perfect, and beautifully represented in zoetropes! Can't imagine how much work this took, but wow, the end result is a masterpiece.Thank you to all involved.

Bravo, Tim and Ken! As an animator living in LA, the song and the music video really hit home. And as an educator, this behind the scenes look is a real treat.

Absolutely bloody awsome, what an insane amount of work, but the rewards of all that work is a visual masterpiece. A mixture of old world science and new world tech, I truly hope these zoetrope wheels don’t end up collecting dust in Tee Jen Ng’s basement, they should be a part of an exhibition to help support and inspire more creative and imaginative art around the world! Thank you! 😎👍

Thanks for releasing this BTS peek of the music video. I honestly was under the impression that most things in it after the beginning were done with VFX because it looked so good, but I'm glad to have been corrected. I just was utterly convinced that... ...there's no way... ...someone would spend so much time... ...on anything. =D

I love the handmade quality of it all and I think people really respond to it well. It’s one of the reasons Wallace and Gromit is so popular.

Both the song and video are truly brilliant. I honestly think Tim's metaphor of 'digging a hole, filling it in, and digging it out again' is perfect for almost all art.

I've only watched the first three seconds so far and oh; to get a hug like that from Tim Minchin!

I've always been fascinated by zoetrope as well.. this is incredible work!

Saw you last night in Edinburgh and it was such an incredible show, this piece in all it's glory shining out, and it's amazing to see the work and love that went into it. x

Amazing work. Thanks Tim for giving TeeKen the well deserved promo on the clip!

The scene inside the caves turning out to be inside the coffee cups was absolutely brilliant!

It’s not a waste of time. ITS BRILLIANT!

Don't get me wrong, I LOVED the video, but I spent a chunk of the time watching it (and the repeated viewings after) desperate to know how it was done. Thank you so much for this!

So appropriate to work on this song with someone from home.

Amazing music video. And now I will watch it from a different perspective. Brilliant, Tim. 😊

What a piece of work! Amazing. Inspiring.

This looks like it's a truly fascinating project.

Just f'n refreshing to see and hear artist(s) work instead of a someone who doesn't know shit about what they are singing or why they are singing it other than looking the fame and fortune.

Incredible

So cool! Thanks Tim for the much needed distraction today!

I Was waiting for this since the video was released. This looks amazing!!

Seeing this live in Perth. Even with the false start to synchronisation. Was AMAZING. Made it even more impressive.

Took the family to the Art Gallery of WA today to see the exhibition. Absolutely astonishing artistic marvels, I feel so fortunate to have been able to see the zoetropes whirling around in person 😍

Amazing!

That's really cool. Thank you so much. It's so incredible that that's all practical effects. I thought for sure at least Tim's face was CGed onto the zoetrope. It's amazing that you can get that level of detail with it. I'm sorry we won't get that animated project.

Wow, what a great idea! Looking forward to seeing the end result.

It's just fantastic.

I had to go back and re-watch the song after watching this and it's simply incredible, really shows the time and love put into creating this. Thanks for creating this. By the way was that a Technics 1210 you have the band mounted on? :)

when this originally air? thank you Great song & animation👏❣️ Tim, you totally NAILED the real LA❤️❣️❤️

Wow Ken, you are one hell of a doggedly obsessively determined artist who does the most painstakingly beautiful charming and quirky animation I have ever ever ever seen. I just can't wait to share this with my dear clever and creative sister who did animation at university before the art got somewhat cheapened. This is freakishly fabulous work. Thank you sooooo much for putting a little beauty in the online world (not to mention Tim's beautiful song of course). Isn't it wonderful he has such clear diction that his fabulous lyrics can be appreciated first go! 🤗 Thank you Ken, you are a true gift, because art, music and friendship is what makes life worth living. I'm feeling inspired and had temporarily forgotten covid and the resurgence in pure beloved NZ, not to mention all the aged care residents and health workers who have been sitting ducks. Very sad. Blessings 👏

always brilliant

Wow! Great work👍💖

This animation technique is so incredible! Thanks for showing us how it was done! I now have a much better appreciation of the "Leaving L.A." video!

I just discovered the song and video this morning. Once again, great song Tim, you bastard. Been having a Tim binge over the past fortnight and you don't need my blessing. Pell's, perhaps? But the video! Got a massive...headache...imagining the work that went into that. Brilliant! And I'm sure the film will be when crowd funding sees it over the line.

amazing

I feel an overwhelming urge to make stuff now

love it!

So cool!

Incredible Work.

This was some music video to watch. I'm glad you've made this one to accompany it. As I thought, but wasn't sure, if it was genuinely made or created on a computer. I'm off to see now. EDIT: CONGRATS, GENTS!!! A YEAR?? TO MAKE THIS?? ASTOUNDING WORK!! WELL DONE!!!👏👏👏

Leave a thumbs up to support flattening the curve. Let’s stop COVID-19 together so we can go see Tim and all of our favorite musicians again!! I saw Tim @ Largo, LA, SF, Thousand Oaks and loved every show! LA misses you.

So sick!!

Thanks for sharing, Tim. Now that I am 'stuck' at home, I kinda want to buy the cutting machine.

Really cool! I’m sad we can’t see your film! I hope it does come out! There are a lot of stop motion animators up in Portland, OR if you want to go that route

How cool. I DID suspect digital trickery, but of course you are insaner than that😂

Splendid work. Inspiring and brave. But I really want Tees Tee-shirt with the digestive guitar. A clue, anyone?

I love to see musicians an animators working together! :) reminds me of my channel...

Does Ken have a RU-vid channel? All I can find is a brief compilation. I'm dying to see more of his work.

Mr. Minchin, I had to leave LA also. Not my place of birth, but I lived there for eighteen years. It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times. The memory that I keep is what flying into LAX looked like. Once we penetrated the "Smog Layer", I looked out of my window seat and saw that everything looked grey and dusty, and WoW...look at all those cars. When I finally retreated to my home turf again, I looked out of my window seat (no Smog Layer) and noticed that everything was green, lush, and populated with little furry animals. Glorious. Until I walked off the plane. Welcome to Indiana. I would very much like to converse with you. I have some ideas about raising children in a time of pandemic, among other things. I have a mandatorily populated TubeYou channel. Please feel free to leave a message. Keep On Rockin' ya fuckin' poseur.....

Tee Ken... !!!

Haha, "It's 3D Tim!" :D :D :D

cool beans.!

So the relationship over the decades has been trading exquisite corpses? There's another song idea buried in that.

This is fabulously done. Is it a *Zoetrope* though? I thought that was viewed through vertical slits in a revolving cylinder? 🤔

Go Aussies!

🥰🥰✌✌❤🧡💛💚💙💜

When you mention your own obsession with social media and so on, Tim. some nice kindly friend flicked me one of you viddy-links two hours ago, and I've been watching your stuff ever since, and going "why the fuck have I never heard of you before" ? It seems to me that you are about 99% talent and 1% promotion: I am literally kicking my own arse for only catching on to you now.

Curious as to why you picked iPhones to film on?

Holy shit. What was in the water the kids were drinking at that Western Australian primary school, and can I have some please?

wow I didn't think you actually used zeotropes. I thought it was just animated.

Loved the song and film clip. You are a legend. Tim i want you to make a song about Aussies putting their bins out while dressing up in costume. Check out the Bin Isolation Outing fb page.

FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRST I LOVE YOU TIM

Wait... That was all *real* ?

Omg omg omg omg (quarentine) omg...

Tim Are you Bill Bailey's secret Love child ? The venn diagram see's ALL

So funny Tim is ( stolen from star wars )

Clever never made no one rich It doesn't appeal to the teenage market