| PLEASE READ: Here's a speed painting I did in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS4 of one of my more favorite musicians of the past year: Lights. For this artwork, I was going for a style that'd be a cross between Makoto Shinkai and graphic novels and MTV. I'll admit, I did a cheap way for doing the the cityscape by using a reference photo to practically paint itself, but if I had used this technique then I would've spent the whole Youtube 10 minutes making the background and not the subject. This project took me about 9 hours to be condensed into 7 minutes. The story I had in mind was Lights in an elevator on her way to the top, since she's rising to the stars. And, yes, it's a tall skyscraper with 311+ floors :p. I used to intern for MTV on Times Sqaure and would see a view similar to this, so I draw what it may've been like if I had seen Lights at Viacom Tower. The two songs set to the video are Basshunter's Dota (Swedish) and Lights's February Air. While February Air might be an obvious choice, Dota isn't. DOTA stands for Defense of the Ancients, an expansion to Warcraft 3. Supposedly Lights is into Warcraft, so I thought it appropriate to use a song about playing Warcraft all day long in conjuction. The Swedish lyrics to the Basshunter song, Dota: Vi sitter här i venten och spelar lite DotA å pushar på å smeker, med motståndet vi leker. Vi sitter här i venten och spelar lite DotA å springer runt å creepar, och motståndet vi sleepar. |
