Check out these 10 music videos that use animation to bring songs to life.
(2013) This animated music video The Raven That Refused To Sing from Steven Wilson feels almost like a short film with it's incredible use of dynamic lighting and powerful story structure.
(2012) Wilco partnered with designer Darren Romanelli to produce the Popeye themed music video Dawn On Me. Though it is very simple the animation is very well done.
(2010) The indie rock band from England known as One eskimO produced a high quality animated music video from their hit song Kandi. The strange childlike animation becomes oddly creepy as the story progresses.
(2008) Kanye West's music video Heartless has a smooth and rich animation style sometimes resembling the brilliant animations from the movie American Pop.
(2005) Artists Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett created the band Gorillaz a fictional band consisting of four members with backstories and all. This unique entity known as Gorillaz produce many of the highest quality animated music videos like Feel Good Inc.
(2001) The Supermen Lovers put out this impressive but somewhat unnerving music video from their song Starlight. A struggling D.J in a grimy alternate universe?
(2001) This creative music video Fell in Love with a Girl from The White Stripes is made purely from Legos, it is short but sweet.
(2001) This acoustic rendition of Creep by Radiohead uses characters from the web series Low Morale. The animation seems stagnant at it's focal point but there is quite a bit going on in the background.
(1999) After seven years with no music videos, Pearl Jam released the music video Do the Evolution animated by the legendary comic artist Todd MacFarlane. The video is a dark and chaotic montage of historical and religious depictions.
(1996) The Red Hot Chili Peppers covered the the 1975 hit song Love Rollercoaster and created a animated music video for the movie Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. The video features a animated rendition of the performers themselves as well as several clips from the movie.
