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The brilliant video was conceptualized and directed by Cesar Kuriyama, a New York based animator, who took 14 months to create the video. His director of photography took 45,000 photographs with a Nikon D200 DSLR camera, which were then later stitched together to create the effect of motion film.
Like most people, you will either love the music, or just hate it.
Watch the video after the jump.
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The success of the single could be attributed to the facts that the song was extremely radio-friendly, and also that it had an innovative, quintessentially ‘80s music video. The video blended rotoscope animation and live action sequences.
Dustin Mclean (aka Dustball), award-winning animator and musician, has now remixed the music video by adding his own voice and lyrics to it.
I don’t want to give too much away, but I just loved this version more.
You can watch the original after the jump. (more…)
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