Gorillaz

Ethan & Jack.

Who are the Gorillaz?

• Link to Dare - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAOR6ib95kQ• Link to Feel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw8PpYBiDsc

The Gorillaz are a English virtual band who were formed in 1998, and are still active today. The creators of Gorillaz are Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. The band is also made up of four animated characters who are 100% fictional, they are.. 2D, Noodle, Russell Hobbs and Murdoc Niccals. All of these characters feature in the bands Music Videos.

Jamie Hewlett• Jamie Hewlett is a English comic book writer,

and is more known as the Co Creator of the band, “The Gorillaz”.

• Jamie attended a school in his hometown of Horsham, before moving on to Northbrook College.

• He set up a fanzine with two other students at his college, which brought him to the attention of Brett Ewins, who then invited him to create material for a new magazine.

• In 1998 Jamie and Damon Albarn created the band, the Gorillaz. They had the intention of keeping the band in a Animated form. The band are in the Guinness World Records, as the Most Successful Animated Band.

Videos and Purpose of the Band. • The Gorillaz use a animation technique called “Cell

Shading” which includes creating a 3D Model and shading different parts of the object.

• The Gorillaz also use a high frame rate, which means their videos are very smooth and clear.

• The 3D characters are Lip Synced, which means that it looks like the characters are actually singing themselves.

• Jamie Hewlett had a good knowledge of Animation and decided to create a animated band, and the Gorillaz were founded.

Quotes From Reviews

• ‘Most successful virtual band’ - Guinness Book of Records

• ‘An interactive cartoon band who use dub and hip hop techniques to create a sickly-sweet bubblegum pop’ – NME

• ‘Brilliantly animated videos’ – Heather Phares of ALLMUSIC

How Their Work Has Influenced Other Bands.

• The Gorillaz was the first ever band to produce an animated music video and as time went on other bands such as the Artic Monkeys and Young Folks began to produce their own animated music videos.

Young Folks – Animator Graham Samuels

Artic Monkeys – AnimatorBlinkink

12 Principles Of Animation Within The Gorillaz

• The Gorillaz animated music video captured all 12 principles of animation, however one that was key was ‘timing’, because it was a music video, the sound had to run parallel to the animation on screen. So if there was say a guitar solo, the animated character had to look like he was playing a guitar to seem much more realistic.