Remember Radkey’s video for ‘Glore’? The one that featured 435 bars of different coloured clay? The one that took 10 weeks to make? The one that needed 18 interns plus four animators and 49 courgettes?
Well, now you can delve behind the scenes to see what all of the above actually looked like.
“Strapping Go-Pro’s to our lead animators head, rigging up the model making studio like Big Brother and time-lapsing the weirdness of our UV stop motion dungeon, we wanted to give an insight into the sheer amount of work ‘Glore’ took to make,” says director Nicos Livesey.
“People may not realise it, but pretty much the entire video is made fully in camera. We wanted to stay true to what claymation really used to be like and we wanted to stay out of the computers as much as we could. This meant a hell of a lot of work and a whole heap of super skilled model makers, stop motion animators, a badass D.O.P and the love of London’s home of stop frame animation, Clapham Road Studios.”
Radkey – "Glore" The Making Of from Nicos Livesey on Vimeo.
“This video is one of the coolest things that we’ve ever been a part of”, says Radkey’s bassist Isaiah Radke. ”We were really stoked to work with our buddy Nicos on something really cool and super violent. He asked us for a huge list of things that we loved and hated. Things like foods, characters, shows and we even got really specific with something like data corruption. Everything’s in there. It’s the ultimate claymation. And Jar-Jar gets his face punched off!”
In case you missed the finished version, that’s here: