Music video for OGRE YOU ASSHOLE’s “More Like You Than You Yourself.” As the title suggests, since the song was about oneself and a person very similar to oneself—perhaps not a mere look-alike, but an existence created by technology such as a robot, AI, or clone—the idea began with wondering whether it would be interesting to make a video in which two different looks are going back and forth. While symbolically treating hand-drawn scenes created with pen on paper and scenes that have been reduced in resolution and pixelated, the two textures gradually blend together and follow a path toward becoming particles in the end. The basic approach is simple hand-drawn animation, with everything drawn on paper with a pen. To create a live-action-like quality of movement rather than a cartoonish one, many scenes were first animated in 3DCG and then rotoscoped by hand.

Description: An unusual work for me, edited by combining animation and live-action footage. I’ve long been drawn to videos like MAD edits, where someone else’s footage is borrowed and synchronized with sound, so this result emerged from an experiment to see what form that might take if I incorporated that approach into my own animation. Since I didn’t want to make anything that would be a copyright issue, I purchased all of the live-action footage from an overseas stock video site called ENVATO MARKET.