Watch & Listen: “Robbers,” a new music video by Chicago band The Laureates…
If we talked anytime in between the months of April and November of 2011, I probably mentioned that Sara and I were working on a video animation, and I'm super proud and happy to finally be able to show it. The video was done for a local Chicago band called The Laureates. It was directed, animated, and composited by Sara, shot and edited by Mr. Brian Keller, and illustrated/animated by me.
If you are curious: I hand-drew the illustrations one by one on a light box; I then scanned each image, removed it from the background, colored it, and sent the layered file to Sara. Sara then took each layered file and seamlessy (i.e. painstakingly) manipulated them into the real video so that the two interacted without overlap. It was intense and quite insane at times, but I think we (especially Sara) friggin' killed it. (BTW, there were no green screens used in this.)
Robbers from The Laureates on Vimeo.
Sara Jean Cough - Director/Animator/Compositing Artist
www.ladylens.com
Joey Potts - Illustrator/Animator
www.joeypotts.com
Brian Keller- DP/Editor
www.iambrainkiller.com
Starring: Adam Wolak, Christopher Burque, Jonathan Burden





