Rich Watson and Order – The New Goodbye music video

Order have delivered their video for Rich’s track now, and very nice it is too. Full of stop motion, HD goodness. The video is the result of an awful lot of painstaking location-based animation work, the bulk of which was undertaken at The Cube in East London. We owe a lot of thanks to Araceli there for allowing Order to use the space for such prolonged periods of time.

The New Goodbye - Music Promo from ORDER on Vimeo.

Thanks are also due to EBB Paper, who provided all the bright card you see shooting around the screen.

The video was conceived to work on both standard sized monitors and also the iPhone display The video embedded here is hosted on Order’s Vimeo channel, where you can see more of their work, including films for the Tate and Design Museum. It will also of course be included on the next update of The New Goodbye app, which will be here in a couple of weeks. The update is having the very last touches put to it now.

Video, blogs and bookshops

A few things of note from the last week or so. Firstly, my piece on digital books and more specifically book apps was posted on The Bookseller's Futurebook blog. This received quite a bit of Twitter-love, and also got picked up by Chris Meadows over on Teleread.

The much bigger news though is a major bookseller has given the nod to a deal hinted at in the Futurebook piece, and that The New Goodbye app should soon get a rather significant push in some bookshops in London.

In other news, last weekend Rich and Order completed filming for the video of The New Goodbye, which consisted of much pain-staking live action stop-motion. Here are a few not particularly illuminating photos from the shoot.

A fancy camera and a sockless foot

 

 

More feet - this time they're on a storyboard

This is more like it. Animator 'Tank'

and some colourful card (courtesy of EBB)

Congratulations also to Russell, who's now taken up his full-time position with McSweeney's.