STOP MOTION KNITTED ANIMATED MUSIC VIDEO – PRETTY CRABBY

Hi Steemit!

This music video was created by legendary singer/ songwriter Chris Ballew of the band 'Presidents of The United States of America' for his children's music project, Caspar Babypants.

Featuring brilliant lines such as:

“...See your mouth spit out a bubble,
makes me want to run on the double,
I don't want no crustacean trouble,
Wow! Wow! Pretty Crabby.

The song is basically about an over emotional crab chasing a child around a beach.. The Child is conflicted about whether to try and make friends with the crab or whether to run as fast as his legs will carry him.

Pretty Crabby has now scuttled across the pond to several Film Festivals including Montreal Stop Motion Festival, Seattle Children's Film Festival, Los Angeles REDCATS International Children's Film Festival.

This was the first Animation me and Mark @bobbins created under our new Production Company name Good Cop Bad Cop Productions Ltd and we are particularly proud of this one as not only are we a big fan of Chris's music but all the techniques we tried came out really well. We had help by the fabulous crochet extraordinaire @shammyshiggs who crocheted several pieces for this project including the bejewelled crab suit.

Interesting fact:

The crab is actually a real crab shell that we hollowed out and placed a ball and socket steel armature inside (don't tell the kids!)

I'll be writing a making of post to follow tomorrow so if you enjoyed the video and would like to learn more about how we made it please look out for it.

...Also, if you have any kids we'd love to know what they thought of the video as well.

Thank you :)