Animated Music Video

This two minute music video is for the song “New York, New York” by country/blues music artist, Roletta Fynn. We wanted to include cats, a big part of Roletta’s identity, and the iconic Empire State Building, which Roletta loves. We envisioned the video as a moving collage and story-boarded from start to finish, with a scene from “Godzilla” being a key influence. Roletta navigates the concrete (flower) jungle riding her trusty steed, hitting some potholes along the way.

To create the segment in which Roletta is riding a giant cat through a flower jungle and singing the chorus I recorded video of her straddling the back of a sofa and singing the song. I then grabbed still images from the footage and isolated Roletta from the background. I scrubbed the audio in After Effects in order to sync up the footage with her various mouth shapes.