Trapt "Stay Alive" Claymation Music Video by Miles Kalbach

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Uploaded by on Jul 26, 2007

The claymation music video I created for Trapt's new single Stay Alive. The entire project took a couple of months to complete, but 95% of the work was completed in a 4 week span during which I slept an average of about 4 hours per night.
The animation was created using exactly 2,132 individual photographs, taken with a standard point-and-click digital camera. Special effects like the mirror and "the matrix" were created by layering photos in Photoshop and masking out the unwanted areas.
The band footage was incorporated into the animation on a frame by frame (by frame by frame by frame...) basis by breaking the footage down into a series of still images and compositing those images into the stop-motion photos one by one. The performance portions of the vid were masterfully shot by Nate Weaver.
I built the set by hand using some faux suede placemats for the walls and actual linoleum tile cut up into 1" squares for the floor. The frames I picked up in the dollhouse section of a local arts and crafts store, and I built the pedestal using a cardboard tube and a bunch of cut down pencils.
The entire video was compiled using Photoshop, Flash, and iMovie (Macs rule).

A huge thank you goes out to Trapt and their manager Drake for granting me this incredible opportunity. Make sure to check out www.trapt.com and keep an eye out for their forthcoming live album "Trapt Live!" scheduled for release in September. Stay Alive is one of two studio tracks to be included on the disc.

More of my work can be seen at www.mileskalbach.com.
Thanks for viewing!

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Uploader Comments (thebloodyhatchet)

  • (^ interesting.

    (^ would the animator be willing to do some collaborative work with bruce bickford?

  • Would I ever!

Top Comments

  • This IS the official music video for the song.

  • Dude, he created it for them. The band wanted him to make a video for them.

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  • cooooool..check out mine

    

  • great stuff!!!! so much work! well done:)

  • wow!!! 

  • seriously did u get money for this?? Is it you job now or whats the story

  • interesting...

  • I find the music to be just noise and screaming but the claymation is fabulous!

  • For the first time...the dislikes actually make me angry.

  • Great animation!

    The music...well.... i will be nice and won't comment ;-)

  • OMG.. i love you bloody hatchet, all the things you did in this video, describe how my mind works.. i subscribed, and favorited and liked

  • That was fucking epic!!!

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