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1. Music video made of paper. Svelte: 'Grind Your Bones'

1 year ago

Our very first music video - actually our very first of anything really.

Each frame of us playing was printed, cut out, placed into a small set and photographed frame by frame.

The music video was made by us (the band members) using only what we had available: A DV video camera, a colour printer, paper, scissors and a digital stills camera.

For more information on Svelte see:
svelte.net.nz

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Ates 1 year ago

Brillianttt!!!! How long did it take to make this?
I will be waiting for your other works.
Svelte 1 year ago

Thanks Albiberon, if we'd worked on it full time it would've taken about 6 weeks.
digital donut (vj) 1 year ago

marvellous!
Svelte 1 year ago

Cheers!
Mark O'Connell 1 year ago

Your description suggests that all the movement is animated frame by frame, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Looks very nice though.
Svelte 1 year ago

That's correct. We filmed ourselves on a white background with a DV camera and edited the clip. We then printed out each frame out at 12 frames a second, cut each frame out and shoot them in the little paper sets frame by frame.

I guess that means it's not stop motion but we weren't sure what else to call it!
kahve 1 year ago

you made a professional and successful job with amateur ways. so bravo. well done.
Kjewbee 1 year ago

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Gabriel Shalom 1 year ago

how in the world did you type that text upside down?!
NoFatClips.com 1 year ago

google.com/search?q=text+upside+down
Kjewbee 1 year ago

Indeed! I've setup the same page on my own server as well for fast referencing but with a few minor adjustments ;)
MAJOR K: Kasia 1 year ago

So creative! So cool!
Did you print the frames from final cut?
Svelte 1 year ago

Yeah, we exported them from Final Cut using Quicktime conversion and chose a frame rate of 12. What we should've done is de-interlaced the footage first then used a frame rate of 12.5 - but hey, it's FINISHED!
MAJOR K: Kasia 1 year ago

it looks great
Joey Carr 1 year ago

Don't worry, pretty soon interlacing artifacts are gonna look retro anyway—I bet there'll be an iMovie effect just like the "old film" effect—so you're just ahead of your time :) It's a great piece, from concept, to music, to execution.
Berzelius 1 year ago

Super impressive actually.
Phase1 1 year ago

Kia Ora! I love how you guys manage to sing with your kiwi accents! sweet as.
andre larke 1 year ago

love the clip and the sound
big G'Day to tim
andre from oz
milli moondingo 1 year ago

very well done, enjoyable an' very pertinent! ta! ;)*
Joe Moya 1 year ago

OK... so, let me see if I have this correct...

You didn't spend a couple hundred thousand dollars to create this same effect through a professional production studio... simply because you didn't have the money? ...WOW! ....go figure... :-)

Good job...
Cody Johnson 1 year ago

Wow.. that's pretty professional, lol. Congratulation! I really like that.
Wenzel Massag 1 year ago

wow, you had me tied up although I don't like this genre (music). Good Luck!
Anson Ho 1 year ago

really amazing. can't wait to see the next one.
TheDeadlyDeaths 1 year ago

Nice work.
bldng. 1 year ago

Wow excellent combination of techniques. Novel way of making something really cool, really cheap.
guayoyo motion graphics 1 year ago

dudes! you forgot to mention some resources: CREATIVITY, PATIENCE AND TALENT,

well done guys!
Visuddha 1 year ago

i am blown away. to know you were able to get this done with such humble tools is very inspiring. what kind of editing hardware did you have in terms of macs and so forth? do you think imovie could handle this job?
graphicpulsar 1 year ago

It´s great!!!....well done buddy!...and what a woooork and patience! ;-)
Monday Sunnlinn 1 year ago

that made my day...thanks...
Jack Crowder 1 year ago

Well I'll say this I thought you were taken from MTV or VH1 and put on here, which made me think that some one was going to get booted for putting copy written material on here.
Arthur Reeder 1 year ago

That was a jaw droopingly fantastic video.
Jason Hernandez 1 year ago

It's refreshing, to watch something made so well, not even with the best equipment, just creativity and drive. By people who's main objective isn't even filming/video. Your musicians who decided to make your own music video. Good job it looked fun.
Jason
Sleepy003 1 year ago

I don't know what to say, other than what's already been said. Well done, excellent :o)
Dawn Kelly 1 year ago

Pretty Cool! I love the animated paperclip scene as well as the others! It is really cute. The song...it is hillarious! Time is running out....everyone is getting older....time to settle down! How old are ya'll? LOL
ZipZero 1 year ago

yey!!! i love the nuns. awesome work guys.
Svelte 1 year ago

Its been pretty incredible to log in and see all your comments - thanks!
MariaNYC 1 year ago

not a fan of seeing bands displayed on the screen in music videos- this is the exception - obviously the appropriation here worked ;-)
simone bernacchia 1 year ago

Respect to the oldskool video technique m_m
malcolm man 1 year ago

wow, Really cool. I really appreciate that you guy sdid this the old school way. What app did you use to out it all together?
Svelte 1 year ago

Hey Malcolm, we edited the DV footage in Final Cut, printed out the frames, shot it all using a digital stills camera, processed the raw files in Bridge, made image sequences using Motion (allowed us to zoom and re-crop shots) then put it all back together in Final Cut.
Sasha Stefan 1 year ago

No Way! That was awesome! Awesome song, awesome video, awesome production! Inspirational!
malcolm man 1 year ago

Wow, bravo! Nice work.
chip the dip 1 year ago

man, I freaking loved it! I hope to try some similar work. great tune to boot, nice job fellas...
Maher Daaloul 1 year ago

Great song, and great music video, everyhting is just amazing.
even thouh I'm a Computer 3D animator, I still prefer the use of traditional technics. feel free to visit my vimeo page you will find my demo reel.
Dawn Kelly 1 year ago

This video is so so ooooosooo funny and cute!
RadarMusicVideos 1 year ago

what a great first anything
MR. BEAR 10 months ago

Very Original, Plays excellent with the song. very creative work to be first of anything Congratulations!
Good Luck!!!!
Diego Stocco 8 months ago

What an incredible work, congrats guys!!
Oscarh Ortega 8 months ago

stop motion is a well known form of masochism, and this appears to be the case.. kudos for your creativity and patience, you pulled off a great piece! specially for being "first of anything"!
3to1 Studios 8 months ago

Adding to the echo chamber, great first! I'd love to see the, "making of" for this video!