'Please (Live)' Album Art & Animation - Gear Splainer
Shane Tise's artwork get's flown around the screen with lyrics and basic animation techniques.
The Song Artwork
Created by Shane Tise. He created hundreds of drawings and Ai creations to get to this. A studio version of “Please” will be coming out in the future with some of his other similar works.
I’ll tell you what I get from this work.
The notion, or story, behind this artwork is wrapped up in the idea of beauty and the beast. If you listen to what this song’s lyrics are suggesting, there’s a person who needs a break from expectation in the search for an ideal ‘mate’. It’s a song about just chilling out, with a plea to ‘enjoy the sun’. Indeed, dating feels like a job interview. Invariably, one or both people have an ‘ideal’ partner in mind. This is where the Yeti comes from, as it’s a Beauty and the beast.
The Animated Album Art “Lyric Video”
Designed specifically for the phones (there is no 16:9 version)
The Making of…
If you have ever animated before, this was not too complicated a production. Here’s how I did it…
Materials
Artwork
Apple Pen + iPad
Flip-a-Clip animation software
Davinci Resolve
The Work
The Lyrics - the artist delivered a text free image. I hand-wrote each lyric 2 x times in flip-a-clip, for the entire song. I then imported this image sequence into Davinci resolve and multiplied the 2x many many times, giving each lyric line a back-n-forth animation which makes it shake, like the credits in the Simpsons.
The Background - I made a cardboard background layer and did a similar back-n-forth animation, so the grain in the paper would change behind the image.
Extracting & Moving the Art - I took the “Yeti and Girl” still image and used basic X, Y, Z and rotation key frames to fly it around the screen, while listening to the song. I tried to make it as interesting as possible between the lyrics, matching movement to the song. It’s purposefully ‘bad’ animation. I wanted it to feel like real paper animation.
Conclusion
I did sit down to draw this on paper, but chose the iPad when I considered I only needed the text. The actual artwork is in the USA, so I could use it to animate with. Digitally is not the worst. In the future, I will do something more traditional with ink at my animation desk.