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The Beatles: Rock Band Intro

Posted by Scott

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E3 is going down right now and the animated intro movie for The Beatles: Rock Band just came out. Beautiful imagery, I really like the sort of 2D-hybrid animation style. The whole thing feels sort of like a more refined Gorillaz. Video Link

Edit: Apparently it was Robert Valley who did the character animations for this piece.

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Jonathan Edwards says:

June 3, 2009 at 6:38 pm

Scott – It’s mentioned on Cartoon Brew and also my friend Will Kane works in Gosh (comic store), about 10 minutes walk from Passion Pictures. Robert Valley popped into Gosh whilst over here working on it. I’m not sure if Hewlett had any input into it but the figures are definitely Valley. Pause the scene in the taxi and see the sexy Lovely Rita in the background. Pure Robert Valley. His Massive Swerve animation is superb too.

Mat – I know what you mean. The scene where they ascend the escalator and morph into the Sgt Peppers outfits is strangely moving!

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Bob says:

June 4, 2009 at 4:08 am

Actually, Jamie Hewlett had nothing to do with this cinematic. It was directed by Pete Candeland through Passion Pictures with Rob Valley directing the 2D. Rob and Ree Treweek (of Shy the Sun fame) designed the characters.

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Bob says:

June 4, 2009 at 4:43 am

Actually, Jamie Hewlett had nothing to do with this cinematic. It was directed by Pete Candeland through Passion Pictures with Rob Valley directing the 2D. Rob and Ree Treweek (of Shy the Sun fame) designed the characters. See Passion Pictures website for confirmation.

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Bas says:

June 5, 2009 at 1:44 pm

Saw this before checking this blog, actually.
It looks beyond impressive. Beatles + Gorillaz style video = the way it meant to be.