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We’re big fans of the UK band Foals, whose new album Holy Fire was released via Sub Pop today. Their dynamic math-rock-meets-percolating-post-disco-bounce should get the crowd moving at Coachella, but on their 3rd LP they’ve crafted hooks and singles sure to win new stateside fans.
Check out the extraordinary video for the single “My Number,” created by several London production and post companies, including our friends over at Final Cut and Academy Films. Their latter’s directors Christopher Barrett and Luke Taylor, pka “Us,” created a moving dot-to-dot world entirely in post using motion capture data collected at Andy Serkis’ Imaginarium studios.
Us recalled, “We had always loved the idea of making a moving dot-to-dot. The problem was how could we apply dot-to-dot to a moving image. We knew that standard animation techniques were out of reach. We spoke with Electric Theatre Collective and they said the most sensible way would be to have motion capture of the band. We had been to The Imaginarium for an open day but only really thought motion capture was for Hollywood movies…
“Once we had all the data from the band captured, we then had to re-create all the band members and their instruments. And we then converted this into dot-to-dot. The process was massively time-consuming with gargantuan renders, but the guys at ETC really pulled out all the stops.”
Don’t forget to pick up your copy of Holy Fire via iTunes today!