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This is not the official music video. It's just a fan video I made.

The song is "Water Curses" by Animal Collective. I started making this in an attempt to learn Flash cs3. There are two basic layers in this animation, a flash layer at 24fps, and a stop motion powderd charcoal layer at 12fps. They are mixed together in nifty ways with After Effects.

you can read more about this video here musictovideo.blogspot.com/2008/10/water-curses.html

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Sune Amstrup 1 year ago

As I it see this video it kind of contains tre stories, acting in the backgroundlayer, the frontlayer and the two layers together. It looks really beautiful, and the idea of moving and drawing with the charcoal is genious.
I like it.
Charles Huettner 1 year ago

nice observation, i hadnt thought about it that way
Not Bad Design 1 year ago

That's pretty sweet!
Charles Huettner 1 year ago

thanks, would you say its....."not bad"? haha, sorry couldnt resist
americanvirus 1 year ago

That was beautiful. Incredible really. I love it very much. Thanks for taking the time and having the patience to make something like this. That was obviously a lot of effort. Definitely worth it, in my opinion. Wonderful work!
Charles Huettner 1 year ago

thanks a lot!
Jennifer 1 year ago

this is really beautiful!!! How do you DL the source video??
Charles Huettner 1 year ago

there is a link at the very bottom right of this page that lets people download the video.
Peter Lopez 1 year ago

man, charles... what a cool video...
Benk 1 year ago

I can't imagine anything else fitting to Animal Collective as well as this!

You should get them to fund you so you can make them an official music video.
Charles Huettner 1 year ago

that would be awesome
Benk 5 months ago

BTW benkspot.blogspot.com/2009/03/labour-intensive-music-videos.html
Charles Huettner 5 months ago

awesome, thanks. yeah it was pretty tedious work, but i guess i have a patience for it.
kateopolis 1 year ago

this meshes so well that one might think the band wrote the song for your visuals.
Adriana de Barros 1 year ago

Great video. I'm featuring it today at Scene 360 Channel, and at our front pages: Scene360.com and illusion.Scene360.com

Congrats!
Charles Huettner 1 year ago

cool, thanks!
Julian Nagy 1 year ago

Love the video, love the song, love the band.
kelly bixby 1 year ago

this is fantastic!! great job. no tweening? wow. that's a lot of work. thank you.
Charles Huettner 1 year ago

thanks, yeah at the time i didnt even know how to tween.
Adriano CorteReal 1 year ago

GENIUS! I must truly say, this is pure genius! You have a great talent, keep it up!
Colette M. Barry 1 year ago

Wow Charles ~
Totally awesome.. your abstracts are genius.. as I believe you are too. You could make over 100 paintings with this videos.. each frame is stunning. This work should take you where you want to go..
It really reveals your talents..
Phenomenal !
Charles Huettner 1 year ago

wow, such great comments. thanks a million
Colette M. Barry 1 year ago

sure.. I'm an artist too.
Love colors like you.
Here's a small sample of my colors at
facebook displaying knick and knats..
facebook.com/album.php?aid=11383&l=24df6&id=1131684335
Ant Barbour 1 year ago

Superb crazy and beautiful
Pipiolo 1 year ago

You´re really talented my friend, this is great.
Erik Wilting 1 year ago

This is beautiful!
joseph Pelling 1 year ago

yeah aspects of this film really cool also animal collective are well good.
Daniel Luo 1 year ago

You, sir, are incredible.
Moreno Perna 1 year ago

Music pleaaase. can you give me the name?
Charles Huettner 1 year ago

"water curses" by Animal Collective. i put that info in the video description
thom Worthington 1 year ago

You don't have to take any drugs to appreciate it. If there was a dark side to Sesame Street this video would feature on it.
Alfonso GJ 1 year ago

I thought it was great!
Torbjørn P. Larssen 1 year ago

This is one of the best fan videos I've ever seen...
Fernanda Godoy 1 year ago

es mejor que el video oficial :D
vizage 1 year ago

Great! I love especially the speed of moves. Thank you!
Brent Long 1 year ago

Splendid. I've made Animal Collective MVs myself, so I know that visually accompanying their music requires a very particular approach. And well, you nailed that here.

Also, I noticed that this was somewhat reminiscent of the opening credits of the movie, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Was that intentional?
Charles Huettner 1 year ago

Ive never watched the movie actually. But I just checked out the intro on youtube. Youre right there are some similarities. kinda cool.
Charles Pieper 10 months ago

From one Charles who does animation to another: Wowzers! This is definitely one of the most beautiful and interesting animations out on the net right now I'd say! Love it.
Charles Huettner 10 months ago

Thanks Charles. your vidos are cool too. I enjoyed the one of you being animated, with that head. fun stuff.
Charles Pieper 10 months ago

Hahah, thanks yeah, that was a fun (though long and rough) one to make!
Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs. 10 months ago

Oh yeah, sup hero?
Tasos Lizos 10 months ago

the first attempts are always the BEST!!
keep going!!
Alfonso GJ 9 months ago

Re-visioning my more than 300 likes, this was the video I liked most out of all of them!
Eric Tsutomu 9 months ago

This is amazing. It really should be their official video. Have Animal Collective seen this?? If not, they should.
Charles Huettner 9 months ago

I actually did send it to them, mostly for permission to use the song and put it on the web. But I never heard back.
Afif 9 months ago

Wow, this is absolutely amazing. You are crazy talented. Not to "hate on" the official Water Curses video but this one blows it away x9873392875. You deserve big things.
Flying TeaParty 9 months ago

Holy crap that's the raddest video I've seen in a long time!
THEomegaBOY 8 months ago

Makes me ffel like eating cookies n cream
It's like an animated cave painting
Fantastic
a-li-ce 5 months ago

Great stuff :)