Watch: “Weather The Storm” by Radish Pictures for Benjamin Scheuer
Radish Pictures, the animation company headed by Peter Baynton have today released the music video for Weather The Storm, Baynton’s third video for musician Benjamin Scheuer following on from The Lion and Cookie Tin Banjo. The trio of films demonstrate three different design styles to accompany the music of Schueuer, with the latest offering a sentimental watercolour style placing a full bodied character in an isolated cubist world to tell the story of a lonely widower “Dickie” coming to terms with the recent loss of his wife. Watch the video below.
Director Peter Baynton has a clear connection to the music of Scheuer which he embodied beautifully in the video, noting of the development.
The song contains a theme and a message that is universal. Initially we thought we’d tell the story through three very different characters, but during the months of storyboarding Benjamin and I fell in love with the personality embodied in Dickie, the old fellow who is now our hero.
The film was produced by TRUNK Animation and recently won the public choice for Best Music Video at the British Animation Awards. TRUNK exec producer Richard Barnet said.
Working with Peter and Benjamin has been a wonderful experience. All of us at Trunk are delighted with this beautiful uplifting video that superbly interplays humour with pathos
Peter Baynton was recently the guest at Skwigly’s This Is Not A Cartoon screenings in Derby, for future screenings and guests check out the website. See a gallery of screenshots from the music video below and the full credits below that.
Credits:-
Director: Peter Baynton
Producer: Daniel Negret
Executive Producer: Richard Barnett & Benjamin Scheuer
Production Company Radish Pictures & Trunk animation
2D Lead Character Animators: Peter Baynton, Alex Potts, Ismael Sanz Pea, Teddy Hall, Reg Isaac
Inbetweens, artworking and background characters: Rachel Calinan, Claudia Chircop, Théo Gremillet, Emily Knight, Clélia Leroux.
Backgrounds and design: Peter Baynton
Compositing: Philip Davies, Rok Predin
Audio Post Production: Fonic
Sound Editor: Marty O’Brien
Sound Design and Mix: Barnaby Templer
Words and music by Benjamin Scheuer
Guitar and vocals by Benjamin Scheuer
Bass by Chris Morrissey
Drums by Josh Dion
Additional vocals by Jean Rohe
Audio engineering by Pat Dillett and Chris Allen
Audio mixing by Kevin Killen
Audio mastering by Greg Caibi
Song produced by Geoff Kraly
From the album Songs from The Lion by Benjamin Scheuer