Japanese cartoons inform Que's music video for DJ Vague
Music: inky illustrations based on Japanese comics wash across the frame during the music video by Tokyo animator Que for DJ Vague's track Freakout.
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Contacted by Atlanta-based DJ Vague's record label via video website Vimeo, Que – AKA Kyu Shibayama – agreed to create an animation to accompany the track.
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"I sent the ideas and thoughts to him by a text and a sketch," Que told Dezeen. "We had such dialogue several times."
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His abstract video plays out as a series of clips like a moving comic strip.
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"The simple line drawings are strongly influenced by Japanese comics and Japanese cartoon films," said Que.
Cuts between scenes are created by a wash effect that wipes off the illustration from the screen and sweeps on a new image shortly after.
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This occurs repetitively action every few seconds, fitting with the rhythm of the track.
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Sometimes the images cover the full frame, while long thin boxes or square apertures are also frequently used like visual windows.
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A palette of dark grey, bright and teal green, as well as bold red/pink, is used against a background of beige gradients.
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Floating grey tetrahedrons are present throughout, but their identity or purpose remains a mystery.
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Also repeated are scenes of a production line creating bottled liquids for dehydrated pink characters, which Que explained was created to accompany the industrial style of the track.
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"A scene of a product line of a factory is to make them fit in with an industrial impression," said Que, describing the effect as a "disquieting impression".
"It was the story by which a situation is aggravated gradually that I thought was suitable for this track," he added.
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Que drew all the illustrations on a graphics tablet, and edited the images into an animation using Photoshop and AfterEffects software.
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Freakout will be released 1 April 2016 on DJ Vague's Restoring Nature EP via label Anarchostar.