{"id":357,"date":"2006-07-07T11:11:27","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T16:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/07\/07\/friday-night-videos-blocky-animation\/"},"modified":"2006-07-07T11:11:27","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T16:11:27","slug":"friday-night-videos-blocky-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Videos: Blocky Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dire Straits: Money For Nothing (1985)<\/b><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5qqXOFWPGKA\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5qqXOFWPGKA\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This video is a giant pile of 1980s video effects, from the rotoscoped glowing colors to the <i>Take On Me<\/i>-like scribblings. But it&#8217;s the computer animation that made it so cutting-edge: blocky characters, a blocky dog, and blocky appliances cavorting about a blocky world. To be fair, Pixar&#8217;s stuff was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixar.com\/shorts\/ljr\/\">just then getting started<\/a>. This was the first video played on MTV in Britain, making it the overseas equivalent to <i>Video Killed the Radio Star<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>The White Stripes: Fell In Love With a Girl (2001)<\/b><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v5d2FKJ17Qo\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v5d2FKJ17Qo\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Michael Gondry takes a break from working with Bj\u00c3\u00b6rk to direct this Lego-tastic video. Evidently he also hired the artists behind Sierra On-Line&#8217;s King&#8217;s Quest games to help with art direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dire Straits: Money For Nothing (1985) This video is a giant pile of 1980s video effects, from the rotoscoped glowing colors to the Take On Me-like scribblings. But it&#8217;s the computer animation that made it so cutting-edge: blocky characters, a blocky dog, and blocky appliances cavorting about a blocky world. 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