Gorillaz - Rhinestone Eyes Fully Animated Music Video (Fan Made - 6 years of work!!!)
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Published 2017-08-31
There is no copyright infringement intended, I do not own Gorillaz characters or the song Rhinestone Eyes, and have created this video with the sole purpose of sharing with other fans a glimpse at what this video could have been had it not been cancelled. All copyright is held by respective owners.
Thanks for all the inspiration Damon and Jamie, and thank you to all the people who have messaged me with kind comments and words of inspiration through the years. I hope your patience was worth it.
edit a lot of people have been asking about donating - if you really want to contribute something, consider a donation to charity on my behalf - there are a lot of people hurting out there right now, and it would make me really make me happy to know that in some small way my project helped people in need.
*The story of why this exists*
Back in 2010 Gorillaz released their 3rd studio album "Plastic Beach" with the intent to tell a complete story over "4 or 5" music videos. Those were "Stylo", "Melancholy Hill", "Broken" and then "Rhinestone Eyes". Unfortunately due to budgeting issues "Rhinestone Eyes" - one of the main concluding chapters - was cancelled in favor of a different single; "Doncamatic". The good thing is that the storyboard video for "Rhinestone Eyes" was already done at the time of cancelation, so we were able to see what the story was going to be.
My video is an effort to take that storyboard video and animate it as closely as possible to the style established by the other videos. My ultimate goal is that you could watch Stylo, Melancholy Hill, and then this iteration of Rhinestone Eyes, and feel like the story is complete. All credit to Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn for the imagery and music associated with this fan project.
Check out my friend Martin M's fan video for 5/4 if you want to see more fan animated goodness!! • Video
All Comments (21)
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"6 years of work" Gorillaz: one emoji will do
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Okay but i love how cyborg Noodle is in 3d while the other characters aren’t
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Man spent 6 years of his life to make a 3 min music vid…RESPECT 👊
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6 years. 6 Y E A R S
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Rhinestone Eyes Storyboard: Exists Richard: My time has come
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You have the respect of the entire Gorillaz fan base
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absolute respect to you Richard for completing a narrative the band's funders weren't bothered about. completely now thinking we should start petitioning Gorillaz themselves to use this as the official music video as it's epic
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"Did you do it?" "Yes" "What did it cost?" "6 years and my sanity"
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You know what's great. Unlike other artists Gorillaz comments "👊" instead of copystriking the video .
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Crazy how cyborg noodles is animated in 3d to stand out from the other members. This is probabky the best fan animation made out of pure love. Excellent work.
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only 15 M? in five years? he deserves at least 200 M
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Music video for Rhinestone Eyes: doesn't exist everyone: :( Richard: "I can fix that" everyone: :)
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"Made entirely by me" Holy shit.
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This is such a perfect mix of 2D and 3D that it actually feels like a Gorillaz animation. Even 6 years later, it's still perfect
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If someone showed me this without me knowing it was fanmade, i would GENUINELY think this is an actual real video from the official channel! This is one of the best things ive even seen on youtube. Ur the best!!!!
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Gorillaz: doesn't animate the rhinestone eyes music video Richard: "fine, I'll do it myself"
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3D animated Noodle doesn’t exist, she can’t hurt you. 3D animated noodle:
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12 years ago, one of the most committed Gorillaz related fan projects began. 6 years later after its release, it sits at 18 million views. Heres to another 6 years of this masterpiece being up online!
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may not be by the official gorillaz but i will give you alot of credit perfect animation nothing distorted about the audio i love it keep up the good work
