Fell in Love With a Girl Animated Music Video

The music video for the White Stripes song Fell in Love With a Girl is perhaps my favourite music video of all time. It is all animated with Lego bricks and directed by Michel Gondry. I personally love the video because even though its animated with Lego bricks so you would think it could look slow and rigid played back like so many amateur Lego animations on YouTube, it actually runs incredibly fast with amazing pace.



I also like how even though its a Lego animation, it doesn't go with the technique I for instance would think of the most obvious way to animate, with actually Lego people as the White stripes. Instead the band members are made up with bricks which I feels gives them more fluidity. The faces of these characters have no features and the arms and legs barely look like arms and legs at all yet you can tell they are arms and legs and you can tell Jack is singing even if he has no mouth. I feel the way this is achieved is through the quality of the animation.



With very few bricks the animators have created characters that are incredibly life-like. Where they needed more emotion in a Lego characters face they did use CGI to get a better effect (see below) but for the most part it was all done with a box of bricks.