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About mattkprovideo

Austin/San Antonio, Texas based digital film maker, animator and motion graphics editor. http://youtu.be/hnApJDsCw28 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3021382/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Van Morrison, Cleaning Windows

mattkprovideo.com/2022/11/21/van-morrison-cleaning-windows/

This is the lyrics to the old Van Morrison song, “Cleaning Windows”

Oh, the smell of the bakery from across the street
Got in my nose
As we carried our ladders down the street
With the wrought-iron gate rows
I went home and listened to Jimmie Rodgers
In my lunch-break
Bought five Woodbines at the shop on the corner
And went straight back to work

[Verse 2]
Oh, Sam was up on top
And I was on the bottom with the V
We went for lemonade and Paris buns
At the shop and broke for tea
I collected from the lady and I cleaned the fanlight
Inside-out
I was blowing saxophone on the weekend
In that down joint

What’s my line?
I’m happy cleaning windows
Take my time
I’ll see you when my love grows
Baby don’t let it slide
I’m a working man in my prime
Cleanin’ windows

I heard Leadbelly and Blind Lemon
On the street where I was born, yeah
Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and Muddy Waters singin’
“I’m A Rolling Stone”
I went home
And read my Christmas Humphreys’ book on Zen
Curiosity killed the cat
Kerouac’s “Dharma Bums” and “On The Road”

[Chorus]
What’s my line?
I’m happy cleaning windows, hey
Take my time
I’ll see you when my love grows
Baby, don’t let it slide
I’m a working man in my prime
Cleanin’ windows

Say again
What’s my line?
I’m happy cleaning windows
Well, I take my time
I’ll see you when my love grows
Don’t let it slide
I’m a working man in my prime
Cleanin’ windows

[Outro]
Alright, cleanin’
What’d you say number
Number a-hundred and twenty-six
Alright, we’ll be right tomorrow

Beatles “Sleeping”

http://www.mattkprovideo.com/2022/11/15/beatles-sleeping/

One of my favorite old Beatles songs just got a new video and I love it.

Any thoughts on how they did this?

There is s a couple of ways it could have been done:

1) It is what it seems to be. Hundreds, if not thousands of individual oil paintings?

2) Someone using Adobe Photoshop and or Corel Painter “painted” over frames of stock footage of the Beatles and some imagery of their own.
They created an empty layer over an image and used the digital mixer brushes to create the “oil painting” look. Then they duplicated THAT layer and then painted alterations over that one.
And so on and so on….
That seems to be the most likely explanation as to how they did it.
At least, that is how I would have done it. It would have taken a LONNNG time, but thats the way I think it could have been done.

3) could this have been done in Animate? It doesn’t look like something made with ANIMATE, but maybe there’s some advanced trick I don’t know about?

Any thoughts?

Is there some after effects plug-in or other technique you know to do that effect?

UPDATE:

Another update: Feb 3, 2024!

It just won the Grammy for Best Video!