Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Hypnotic Abstract animated music video for the song "Snazzy Dresser" by The Screaming Pope: thescreamingpope.bandcamp.com/album/misterio
*Be sure to watch the animation in 4K!
To create this 2D animation, I animated to the soundtrack in an abstract style inspired by 1930's experimental animators like Norman McLaren and Len Lye.
Direct animation, or drawn-on-film animation, is a form of animating directly on the film stock itself. Instead of drawing on cels or paper for the camera to photograph frame-by-frame, the visuals are drawn on the film stock itself.
This allows for experimentation and abstract imagery, though narratives and representational art can also be shown this way. Scratches, stamps, paint, found materials, and countless tools and techniques can be applied to the film frame.
I animated all of this digitally at 24 frames per second in TVPaint.The difference is that I'm not animating on film stock, so the texture and imperfections of physical media would be missing.
To combat the overly clean nature of digital art, I used custom paint style brushes, film grain overlays, and filmed analog glitch visuals from a Sony Trinitron CRT television to add more texture and energy to the frames.
Unlike a traditional animation film, I didn't make storyboards to plan out the animation. Instead, I animated straight-ahead in a stream-of-consciousness manner, feeling the energy of the music and animating directly to the sounds.
If you close your eyes you can kind of see shapes, forms, and colors poof in and out of existence. Each instrument has its own frequency range, so the shape and color can represent what the sound of these instruments might look if you could actually see the sound, as with synesthesia.
#2danimation #abstractart #synesthesia
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Hypnotic Abstract animated music video for the song "Snazzy Dresser" by The Screaming Pope: thescreamingpope.bandcamp.com/album/misterio
*Be sure to watch the animation in 4K!
To create this 2D animation, I animated to the soundtrack in an abstract style inspired by 1930's experimental animators like Norman McLaren and Len Lye.
Direct animation, or drawn-on-film animation, is a form of animating directly on the film stock itself. Instead of drawing on cels or paper for the camera to photograph frame-by-frame, the visuals are drawn on the film stock itself.
This allows for experimentation and abstract imagery, though narratives and representational art can also be shown this way. Scratches, stamps, paint, found materials, and countless tools and techniques can be applied to the film frame.
I animated all of this digitally at 24 frames per second in TVPaint.The difference is that I'm not animating on film stock, so the texture and imperfections of physical media would be missing.
To combat the overly clean nature of digital art, I used custom paint style brushes, film grain overlays, and filmed analog glitch visuals from a Sony Trinitron CRT television to add more texture and energy to the frames.
Unlike a traditional animation film, I didn't make storyboards to plan out the animation. Instead, I animated straight-ahead in a stream-of-consciousness manner, feeling the energy of the music and animating directly to the sounds.
If you close your eyes you can kind of see shapes, forms, and colors poof in and out of existence. Each instrument has its own frequency range, so the shape and color can represent what the sound of these instruments might look if you could actually see the sound, as with synesthesia.
#2danimation #abstractart #synesthesia
►Patreon: patreon.com/MicahBuzan
►Subscribe + 🔔 for New Videos: youtube.com/channel/UCCjxj7bGisHgWB3KZi_lAPA?sub_confirmation=1
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