Like a Duck - MC Honky

A surreal animated music video for the track "Like a Duck", by MC Honky.

It started as just something to mess around with, adding in all sorts of drawings and mixing them up using frame by frame animation and playing with interactions between the images and music. Then it just got bigger and bigger, and now this finished version runs for 4 minutes and 21 seconds.

I hope you enjoy it!

I've been told that the sync is out on some peoples computers, and I've had the problem too. It seems to work perfectly on a PC but on a mac the music gradually gets ahead of the animation. If you get to the end and use the scene selection buttons to go straight to one of the later scenes, you'll see that things are much closer in sync. I think it might have something to do with the animation being on 24 fps and the sound running at a different rate, possibly 25fps? If anyone knows a solution, please let me know.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• TheBoogley
• Boogley
• Neil
• Sanders
• McHonky
• Honky
• Animation
• Animations
• Anim

[UltimateGingerBalls]

Wow.. is this the official music video or did you just make this video from a song that you like? This video is incredible. YOU SHOULD BUY A BOAT!!

[TheBoogley]

only a little one

[mochaxj]

what frame rate is it?

[TheBoogley]

24 fps

I usually work at 30 or 15 now because it's closer to the quicktime framerate

[Fangscream]

Amazing, once again. How long have you been doing frame-by-frame animating? Jeez! 100/5 :D

Any advice for a frame-by-frame newbie?

[TheBoogley]

the main thing for me is to be able to draw really well first, you need to be able to understand form of characters to be able to move them convincingly with weight and physics. Just keep working at it and you'll keep getting better! :D

[sexton610]

This is really great! Thanks so much for putting this fun loving thing together on this exciting and awesome song! : ) Great job!

[vvYubvv]

This ought to be the official clip, it smacks large amounts of faecal matter out of the other.

[elgray16]

Great vid. Really dug it.

[TheBoogley]

maybe I should make a clip to that then, though it might push you over the edge :)

[jjdowson]

awesome