HUGO - Hailstorms Music Video from HUAGLOM on Vimeo.Amid a sea of muted watercolors and rotoscoped pen-and-ink-style scribbles, the face of Hugo (the mononym of Thai-British musician Hugo Chakrabongse Levy) emerges to the rolling beat of the downtempo "Hailstorms," a track off 2014's Deep In the Long Grass (Lullaby). Directed by Bangkok-based post-production studio, HUAGLOM, the song and video tells the story of a man "who has given up on escaping his unavoidable fate and is ready to take on what ever fate throws at him," according to the video's creators.
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"'Hailstorms' was created with traditional frame by frame animation using watercolor techniques," HUAGLOM tells The Creators Project. This, combined with "digital rotoscoping illustration," results in the graphic textural qualities that present HUGO as a kind of transient, a sonic wayfarer on the traintracks to nowheresville. But that's par for the course, Hugo sings, "I dance my way through hailstorms anytime."Check out a few of our favorite rotoscoped moments from Hugo's "Hailstorms" music video below, and grab a copy of Deep In the Long Grass on iTunes:
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