Animated Music Video for Musicians
An animated music video is a done by an animator with the help of a computer software. An animator is an artist that uses computer software, puppets or pencil to sketch out images and make them come to life. This sketches or computer puppeting creates motions for minutes to make the music video.
Animated music video became a thing since the digital computer came into existence. Animation was mainly for children but now its used for music videos too .Now there are many computer software’s to make animation so animated music videos is not going to end. Some people use only puppets and a camera to make an animated music video.
Live-action music video can be done with a camera but animation is still far easier to do. The animator does not need the musician to be around when working on the music video. Most animated music videos are made with just the image of the musician. The image is needed to create the musician in the computer software. Ideas are limitless when creating an animated video so that’s great for artists. Talk to an animation studio (www.animband.wordpress.com) if you need an animated music video, you will just need to provide the script. A script contains your song, images, lyrics and an idea for you music video.
Examples of Animated music video
Here are some examples of animated music video. All these music videos below were created by the team at Animband.
Bandman_Kevo – Tor Browser
In this music video, the rapper mentions his struggles he passes through trying to make money. It took us just 2 weeks to make the video. All we ask from the musician is to provide his lyrics. We found most of his images online so there was no need to provide it.
Black Sherif – Zero
Black Sheriff and Mabel talk about having too much drama in their life in this music video. It took the team at Animband less than 2 weeks to complete this video. We found his images and lyrics online.
Fmb Dz – Made man
The rapper brags about making money and living safely in his hood. This video took us just 1 day to create it. This is a lyric video, its a bit different from a character animated video like the once above. We just needed the lyrics and a theme for the video.
Types of animated music video
Animated music video comes in 3 types. There is the character animation, the lyric video and the animated visualizer. I recommend you use all these types of animation in your music making journey. Each of the type of animation and where it’s best suited for. Let me give you a brief explanation on each of the types of animation for your music.
1. Character Animation, is like a live-recorded music video but with limitless creativity. In this type of music video, there is the character which is the musician, other people in the music video and there is the environment. The character motions in the environment with the rhythm and flow to make the video. This type of music video is very difficult to make, it can take 1 week to 1 month to complete, for 1 song only.
2. A lyric video, shows the lyrics of the song appearing with the flow of the music, also there is a theme design for the background onto which the lyrics appear. A lyric video is easy to create if you are an experienced animator. It takes 1 day to 7 days to create a lyric video.
3. Animated visualizer, is anything that moves with the song to express the song more. This expression is mainly the rhythm of the song or the point the musician is trying to make in the song. Animated Visualizer is more like effects flowing with the rhythm of the song. You will need a lot of experience with computer coding or animation to create a visualizer. It takes 5 days to 2 weeks to create an animated visualizer.
Where to get an animated music video
Animation studios create animated music videos. Freelance animators can also create a music video for you but you should not expert great quality because it is done by one person only.
I guess you are looking for an animated music video for your song, I recommend you talk to Animband for music video , lyric video and visualizers.
If you want a freelancer to work on your music video for you, please go on Fiverr (https://www.fiverr.com/categories/video-animation/buy/music-videos/animated) or Upwork. But you should know its not going to be of great quality but its usable because these animators got a lot of experience in the animation field.
You might also be thinking of creating it yourself because you got time to do that. This will take a long time to learn, even the lyric video will take you months before you get good at it. You should create effective videos if you want to see some good results for you songs. Learning an animation software will take you 1 year and getting good at animation itself will take you an additional 2 years. To learn everything fast, go on Facebook groups and look for an animation mentor to help you out and speed the learning process.
Animated music videos compared to live-action music video
This is the main difference between animated music videos and live-action music video. Live action mean camera recorded music videos.
Animated Music Video
1) Fast to create
2) Everything can be done in the studio
3) Creativity is limitless
4) Require little team to create
5) Sometimes looks robotic
Live-Action Music video
1) Takes a long time to create
2) Requires a lot of location for shooting
3) Creativity depends on the musician most of the time
4) Requires a lot of people to create the entire video
5) very smooth video
How to get the best out of an animated music video
First you need to know the purpose for each of the types of an animated video, and how to get the best result from each of them. The animated character video can be used as the actual video or the promo video to your live action video. Some musicians make a song and use the animated music video as the main music video. This is great if it matches perfectly with the theme of the song. Animated character videos should be used as the main music video to your song if your song matches with it. Lets say the song is about space, you cannot go to space and record it so you can make an animated character video for your space song.
A lot of musicians know how to use a lyric video but let me go ahead and give you a little process on how to use it just for my readers who do not know how to use a lyric video. The lyric video should be released when your fans keep asking for the meaning of your song or you know the lyrics will be difficult to understand on it’s own.
Animated visualizers are mainly used for promo. Visualizers on its own is not enough for a music video but its great for promo. Some examples are the motion cover art and computer generated effect you see, playing song on some apps. Visualizers are a fast way to get your listener picture your song in their mind.
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