| 'Blown Minded' is from the album SHAPESHIFTING, on Paper Bag Records! From Carine Khalifé, the filmmaker: I met Steve and Catherine when I first arrived in Montreal. They were about to release their new album, and I was more than excited when they asked me if I was interested in making a video for them. They sent me their songs, and I immediately had a crush on "Blown Minded". We met a couple of times, discussed ideas, and then I started this project! First, it was all about finding the right technique. Animation offers so many possibilities. When I first heard the song, I was hit by the wonderful texture of it, and my first task was to chose the imagery that would be rich enough to suggest the depth of the song. It was obvious to me that paint would be the key. So I experimented a lot before jumping into to the darkroom. Basically, my technique was to paint on a piece of glass fixed to a light box. I would paint on the glass with oil so that it wouldn't dry, and I could play with it for hours. A camera, fixed overhead above the animation table and plugged in my computer, would capture my paintings frame by frame and create the animation using the software Stop Motion Pro (the aardman studio software). This process took place inside a dark room so that there wouldn't be interference or changing lights on the paint. The single light source came from beneath the glass, revealing the textures and details of brushes movements. I worked a lot with transparency. The more paint ... |
