BOOKWATCHER

Music by Ben Folds and Lyrics by Nick Hornby
benfolds.com/​

Video by Justin Owens/Julius Preite/Sarah Owens/Ian MacRitchie

We had three weeks to concept, illustrate, shoot, animate and edit, a video for a four minute song. All while keeping our day jobs.
Julius came up with the characters and the concept then drew like the wind… into the nights.
As he drew I came up with the strategy of how to get this thing done, a little stop motion, a lot of after effects, a ton of work.
The end result is clean, sweet and compliments the song very nicely. Ben is happy, we are happy. Hope you like it.

Nice article:
spinner.com/​2010/​09/​29/​ben-folds-nick-hornby-from-above-video/​

Credits:
Julius Preite: Director, Executive Producer, Illustration, Animation, Justin Owens: Executive Producer, Design, Animation, Live Action, Sarah Owens: Animation, Ian MacRitchie: Animation