Live Action / Animation Hybrids in Music Videos
Animation has been incorporated with music and music videos since the 60’s and 70’s with creations for Saturday morning cartoons such as Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Archies and Josie and the Pussycats but as time when on it was used for bigger productions like in Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker. With the rise of MTV in the 80’s artists begane doing more experimental stuff with animation like in the video for Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer.
Then in 1989 we saw Paula Abdul performing along side a cartoon character.
The video became so popular that MC Skat Kat spun off into his own short musical career.
This would later bring about other animated bands that would stand independently from real life artists and even have story lines to go along with their band such as Gorillaz.
And Canada’s Prozzak.
Until eventually one would even get their own TV show with Metalocalypse on Adult Swim.