Research of the band Fingathing

From searching the internet on the band Fingathing, which is the artist that I was given one of their songs to use for my animation, I have learned that the band Finagthing are a Jazz/Hip-Hop band from Manchester. The band consist of a classically trained double bass player named Sneaky and a DJ turntablist named Peter Parker. 
 

 

 Fingathing have also released a few albums/ep's throughout their career so far. Here are some images to show you their front covers which are creativley designed creativley by Chris Drury

I really like the album covers that are designed by Chris Drury, there are in keeping with the genre of music and also with each of the musical artists profession, keeping the theme quite street hip-hop but also including bass instruments with I think give the cover a great effect.

 

Group Animation

Here is a picture of the ideas that we as a group had come up with during a workshop. The goal was to pick a single logo and also an image from given sheets and create an animation using both of the images. As a group of 6 we were each given 24 frames to draw in order to complete the animation and run it smoothly either using Photoshop or another program. This will be uploaded shortly in time when all frames are complete.

Song to animate to

This is my song that I have to create a 20-30 second animation along to for my project. I think that the song is really abstract as the beginning of the song starts with a narrator which sounds quite old time theatre which then leads into a hip hop genre but then suddenly falls into a quite dull repetition followed on by a SCI-FI finish. Although the song is named How To Smoke I don't think that my final outcome will be produced to do with smoking as I think that my chosen audio slot will be between 1:20-2:00 during that time slot where I think that I have a better chance of communicating with the audio and producing a better piece of animation whether it be photographic or illustrative.
Here is the song to give you a better idea of what I am working with.

Inspiration

Here are some videos that I would like to just start off my blog to my new project print to pixel. These videos that I am going to include are just a couple of videos that inspire me to create my very own animation to a given song for my project at university. 

Some of the videos that I've included in this post are pretty much how I would like to produce my animation or along them lines.