'KEEN YELLOW PLANET' MUSIC VIDEO
“Made for only $7,500, using hand-drawn cell animation that was scanned into Photoshop...Keen Yellow Planet‘s high-quality visuals don’t betray its low-budget production techniques.”
The official music video for 'KEEN YELLOW PLANET' (featuring Brett Anderson) from Stina Nordenstam's album 'Welcome to Happiness' directed by Mark Osborne.
ABOUT THE MUSIC VIDEO
A lumpy blue alien boy is excited on the eve of a family trip to the "Keen Yellow Planet." His entire life has lead up to this moment as he imagines for the last time how amazing it will be for real. Music by Stina Nordenstam song, video by Mark Osborne.
WIRED MAGAZINE ARTICLE
...In Keen Yellow Planet, a boy dreams he is visited by a wondrous singing yellow creature. However, when he goes to visit the creature’s planet he finds that appearances can be deceiving. He sees the creature sing before thousands of people in a giant stadium, but it is not the same as how he remembered it.
“Keen Yellow Planet to me is about this little kid who’s dreaming of going to a Disneyland,” he said. “Dreaming of this ultimate experience, and his little life has led up to this experience, and he can’t even sleep. But he goes, and it’s this big giant lame robot that’s all rusty. His fantasy and his imagination of it is much more grand … it’s that moment, that loss of innocence,” Osborne said...
CREDITS
Director: Mark Osborne
Music: Stina Nordenstam, from the album “Welcome To Happiness” Performed by: Stina Nordenstam, Courtesy of Independente Limited, ©2001
Producers: Janet Haase & Scott Flor
Production Coordinator: Myra Spence
Animation Director: Jenny Walsh
Animators: Cameron Baity
Clean-Up/Ink & Paint: Rick Orner, Daniela Verona
Additional Animation: Kenji Ono
Character Design: Cameron Baity, Paul Tibbit
After Effects Compositing: Dan Everson, Scott Ulrich
Production Assistant: Mandy Siu
Sound Design: Shawn Patterson, Ben Decter
Flame Color Correction: Kim Harper @ Somersault
