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Gorillaz 'Humility' by Jamie Hewlett, Tim McCourt, Max Taylor, Evan Silver

David Knight - 4th June 2018

Just a year after Gorillaz' star-studded fifth album Humanz was released, here comes a sixth - The Now Now, released later this month - and a new video for the first single Humility, with Jamie Hewlett's characters (including a new one) animated by Tim McCourt and Max Taylor at The Line.

With live action shot at Venice Beach – directed by Evan Silver – McCourt and Taylor's excellent 2D animation brings the band character 2D to life, joyfully rollerskating through Venice's celebrated streetlife (sporting Beats headphones) while the other bandmembers hang out with the locals - including Murdoc's 'temporary replacement', the equally green Ace, casually ruining a game of hoops.  

And with a significant live action supporting role for a guitar-strumming Jack Black, who pops up throughout, this seems like an altogether simpler and sunnier, and more commercially-minded iteration of the World's Most Successful Virtual Act. Certainly a kinder one for the usually hapless 2D. Well, that is until drummer Russel (now back at normal size) puts a sudden, surprisingly spiteful end to 2D's skate fun.

Can Russel be the new Murdoc? Good to see that some remainder of Hewlett's edge is still there...

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Jamie Hewlett
Producer
Ryan Ennis
Producer
Georgina Fillmore
Producer
Franzi Nicolaus
Production Company
Production Company
Ruffian
Executive Producer
Bart Yates
Executive Producer
James Duveen
Executive Producer
Robert Herman

Camera

Director of Photography
Carlos Veron

Art

Production designer
Chris Yager

Wardrobe

Wardrobe
Scott Ludden
Hair & Make-up
Amy Hanlin

Casting

Lead actor
Jack Black

Animation

Animation
The Line

Editorial

Editor
Robert Rafalat

Grading

Colourist
Simone Grattarola
Colour grade company
Time Based Arts

Misc

Co-Director
Tim McCourt
Co-Director
Max Taylor

Other credits

Cast

Alex Okafor, Dexter Homan, Brent Martin, Remi Kabaka, Will Dewitt

Roller Skater stand-in

Edgar Khatchatrian

Animation Directors

Tim McCourt & Max Taylor

Animators

Marlène Beaube, Léonard Bismuth, Maxime Delalande, Tim Dillnutt, Sarah Dhorne, Wesley Louise, Venla Linna, Xavier Ramonède, Pierre Rütz, Alvise Zennaro

Background Artist

Bjorn Erik-Aschim

Lead Compositor

Bernardo Varela

Compositors

Valentina Bartiromo, Guillaume Cassuto, Kye Dorricott, Fiona Lu, Courtney Pryce

Clean Up Artists

Aude Carpentier, Denise Dean, Angelina De Silva, Michael Douglas, Gerald Gallego, Venla Linna, Toby Parry, Setareh Seto, Isobel Stenhouse

Production Manager

Max Ross

Production Assistants

Samia Ahmed, Leana Mae Felipe

Tech Support

Jack Straw

Additional Clean Up

Amix

Rotoscoping

Trace VFX

Head of Production

Sheila Eisenstein

Production Supervisor

Joshua Hummel

1st AC

Rod Horwitz, Eric Aguilar

2nd AC

Alan Certeza, Brian Austin

B-Cam Operator

Joseph Messier

DIT

JJ Osbourne

1st AD

Chuck Connors

2nd AD

Erid Topp, Brent Martin

Gaffer

Red Hickman

Key Grip

Michael Koepke

Grips

Ryan Sparling, Danny Carillo, Adam Flore

Executive Producer Colour

Tom Jones

Location Manager

Scott Ludden

Sound Design

Offset Audio

Engineer

Claire Bilyard

David Knight - 4th June 2018

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