My daughter mentioned this video from Kina Grannis, In your arms, to me as we were driving home today. She’d seen it featured on the Ellen DeGeneres show. Apparently it went viral on YouTube back in November, but it escaped me until now. This is a true labour of love. All of the backgrounds are made from Jellybeans. Yes, that’s right, jellybeans. They were donated by the JellyBelly company – smart move on their behalf. Over 4 million views on YouTube is some pretty good marketing for any company, and their only investment was the donation of bucket loads of their product. (288,000 Jellybeans, to be precise!)
Digital Journal has an article discussing the process. Here’s an excerpt from what they had to say,
“The project took 22 months to complete and a behind the scenes look at the process can be viewed on YouTube (shown below). It took 1,357 hours of hard work and a ‘jelly bean animation team’ that consisted of over 30 people. Add two ladders, one still camera, a producer, director, writer, concept artist and 288,000 jelly beans and the finished product is a new creative video featuring one of Grannis’ popular songs from 2010.”
Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/313983#ixzz1ifzFfQ2B
I hope the director, Greg Jardin, has garnered some work from what was a labour of love for him. He deserves whatever comes his way. The ‘making of’ video is well worth watching, and is great for any teachers out there helping students understand the art of stop motion filmmaking. This was a frame by frame shoot.
In the spirit of things, I created a bean art portrait of myself with help from the bean art maker tool on the JellyBelly site.
Nothing like immortalising yourself in Jellybeans!
Have a great weekend. Indulge in some jellybeans perhaps. : )
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Great video Jenny. Peter Gabriel made a ground breaking video in the eighties with” Sledgehammer” . May be worth a look.