Take on Muse - Animation by Nelicion

Drawing video & animation about Muse, created by yours truly...! :D

I'm going to see them live on June 19th in the Netherlands. YES.


Find me at deviantART:
http://www.cataclysm-x.deviantart.com/

and Twitter!
http://twitter.com/nelicion

and Facebook...!
http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#!/profile.php?id=100001286761759

Animation was made with traditional pencildrawings, and my 1st animation ever made. Although I used several sketches multiple times, the animation itself displays 822 seperate frames, 10fps.


The beginning of the video doesn't exactly show the best quality (low contrasts and brightness), but after a minute or so it gets slightly lighter until the video reaches the animated part.


DRAWING / ANIMATION FACTS
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Here a few facts about this video:

- The project started as a part for my art portfolio. But as time developed, it actually became a small music video on its own.

- The development of the storyline is based on my all-time favourite music video ever: "Take on Me" by A-ha.

- The animated sequences all started with single sketches which I multiplied quite a bunch of times. No frames were traced from real photos. (Own) reference images were used.

- The song playing in the background is a Muse song covered by my youngest brother Bob, also known as
http://www.youtube.com/user/Bobsogenesis
I specifically asked him to cover this particular song, and add his own style of (guitar)playing, as it plays well with my video. I'm very proud of him.

- The song is called "Exogenesis pt 3". It's my favourite Muse song to this very day.

- 2 special guests appear in the video... ;)

- The drawing vid at the end shows the process of a sketch of Matthew Bellamy which took me about 2.5 hours to draw. After this one, I made 2 more sketches of Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard too. Each of them got their own specific colour, the same colours return in the animation.

- The earth / eye shows my own eye. I first wanted to go for Matt's eye, but couldn't find a good and detailed close up, so I decided to go for my own!


- From the beginning to the end I spent approx 1000 to 1100 hours into the project! Apart from the 4 large sketches and the video editing, each frame took about 1 hour to draw and edit. That's about 1hour x 822 frames... + a whole lot of research too.


I could go on and on like this, but I don't want to waste any more spoilers. :D Hopefully you'll enjoy watching this vid as much as I enjoyed the process.

Cheers! :)



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Lastly: I would like to dedicate this video to Kelsey, Merilyn, Nina, Melanie, Kate and Izu. Many thanks to my wonderful friends @ deviantART. Without their support, critiques and comments I wouldn't have gotten so far.

Special thanks to Muse for being so awesome. They rock!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• animation
• drawing
• video
• pencil
• muse
• exogenesis
• bobsogenesis
• sketches
• revelations
• matt
• matthew
• bellamy
• chris
• wolstenholme
• dominic
• dom
• howard
• arts
• crafts
• tutorial
• redemption
• portrait
• art
• artwork
• process
• a-ha
• take on me
• take on muse

[MrSamsung913]

3:22 Is that you and your boyfriend/ husband?

[Nelicion]

@MrSamsung913 haha, definitely not! It's my brother who covered the song :)

[MrsMattBellamy10]

MATT BELLAMY WINKED AT MEEEEEEEEE :O

[Nelicion]

@MrsMattBellamy10 lucky bum :D

[molovesmusic567]

im going to send this to Tom's twitter (he's the most active so far :p) so he can show the group... if ya don't know who he is... he's the bands' manager :)

[ploppes]

WOW! Astonishing!

[MultiColouredVagina]

how do you know matts email!!:O

[TheEddyf1]

@ladymichiyobu .. Seriously?

[ladymichiyobu]

you could send it to qua@hotmail.com **cough** that's Matt's email.

[ladymichiyobu]

this is just hte best thing i can't even

[aMUSEd12Rp]

@molovesmusic567 Tom's not the manager btw :) But he is kind of a 4th band member

[Wilhelmina211]

3:41 BELLDOM <3

[ChristeenJayy]

This is amazing! :D

[haggars93]

This is incredible, you have some serious tonal drawing talent, some of the best tonal drawing iv'e seen. The animation work is fantastic, its good to see all the time and effort put into this has paid off. Plus, its Muse so bonus points for that. =]

[LaMuselle]

wow I just loooooove this vid. <3

[MrsMattBellamy10]

@Nelicion BUT YOU MADE HIM WINK ;) HE WINKED IN UR VIDEO. CUZ HE IS SO REALISTIC I SCREAMED. U ARE TRULY AN ARTISTIC GENIUS