David Cowles and Liesje Kraai directed this animated music video for the Grammy-award winning They Might Be Giants’ Here Comes Science. It’s titled Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma), and it finally puts the rumor to bed – the Sun is not made of cheese. Errr…. something like that. Jeremy Galante served as an animator on the project.

Following up on his 2008 project for the alternative rock duo know as They Might Be Giants, Pascal Campion has created a new music video. Much like his One Dozen Monkeys piece, this music video also features a number of primates. It’s for the song Kids Go!, which promotes the newly-released TMBG book of the same name (which was also illustrated by Campion).

Fresh from directors David Cowles and Jeremy Galante’s animation lab is a new, 8-bit-inspired, Flash-animated music video titled Put It to the Test. The track is on the Grammy-award winning They Might Be Giants’ soon to be released album (September 22nd) Here Comes Science. It’s their third educational album, following 2005’s Here Come The ABCs and 2008’s Here Come The 123s. The CD/DVD release is aimed at school kids K-5, but if you follow the bible to the letter, this album probably isn’t for you, as it’s not an accommodationist bow to creationism. In fact, there’s a song titled My Brother the Ape, that will surely make some parents fall out their tree. Oh, science – you’re a scoundrel!

Adam Sacks and David Cowles recently co-directed this multi-lingual animated short I Can Add, from the They Might Be Giants album/DVD Here Come The 123s.

Sacks and Cowles had an A-list name of artists helping with the final animation, including Joe Apel, Pedro Delgado, Nelson Diaz, Jeff Fletcher, Aya Fukuda, Casey Leonard, Jonathan Renoni, Thomas Sebasian Smolenski, Joe Stucky and Joe Quinones.

Head over to Adam’s site to see the animatic (Quicktime) from I Can Add.

Pascal Campion, a one-man animating machine, has posted his collaboration with alternative rock duo know as They Might Be Giants. TMBG has created a pair of albums aimed at the preschool group – Here Come the ABCs and Here Come the 123s. Both have been turned into DVDs filled with puppetry and animation, and Campion was called upon to bring the song One Dozen Monkeys to life. The Flash animated music video is posted on Pascal’s website.

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