Gorillaz Musical Journey! Phase 5 - 'Tranz'!

We are BACK watching the Gorillaz animated videos! Editor Hubby and I are huge fans of the Gorillaz music, but I have never seen the music videos before!

Today, we are reacting to 'Gorillaz - Tranz (Official Video)'!

"Tranz" is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz. It was released on 14 September 2018 with a music video as the sixth and final single from their sixth studio album, The Now Now. On 28 September 2018, a remix of the song by British electronic musician Poté was released. The song charted at #16 on the Billboard's Hot Rock Songs.

The music video begins with a neon title card that says "Gorillaz TRANZ" that lights up before returning to dark. The video then transitions to the band performing the song live with a psychedelic background featuring various patterns and shapes. It begins with a close-up of 2-D's face, which zooms out as the music starts. It then zooms out to the full band in the order of Russel, Noodle, and finally, Ace, all playing their respective instruments. As the chorus starts, the background changes faster, into more colourful patterns, as 2-D spreads his arms and bright lights shine out of his eyes. There is then a sequence of each member playing an instrument, starting with 2-D on the keyboard, Russel on drums, Ace on bass, and Noodle on guitar. The video transitions to 2-D's arms spread out and glowing eyes; the sequence of characters playing their instrument plays again and becomes more distorted. Then, a close-up of 2-D's face blowing in the wind is shown. It then shows the two 2-Ds facing each other with another 2-D coming out the mouth of one and into the other, followed by 2-D bending and flopping to the rhythm of the music. There is then a stop-motion claymation sequence of 2-D with a runny nose and another of 2-D with a rotting tongue. At the end of the video, the bending 2-D figure falls to the ground.

The music video for "Tranz" was directed by Blinkink and Eddy and produced by Jamie Hewlett & Nicos Livesey. The video also features original claymation portions from Lee Hardcastle and 3D animation by Marco Mori, Erik Ferguson, and Oliver Latta. Hewlett revealed in an interview that the music video was planned to have a spoken introduction where Ace would have a conversation with 2-D. Still, the process of getting Cartoon Network's approval for Ace's dialogue and the cost of bringing in voice actor Jeff Bennett proved too expensive.

The video is the first Gorillaz music video to show all four Gorillaz members playing their respective instruments since "Feel Good Inc." in 2005.[9]

In 2019, Superplastic released a 2-D vinyl figure based on his appearance in the video.

Personnel
Damon Albarn – vocals, synthesizers, guitar
James Ford – bass guitar, guitar, drums
Remi Kabaka Jr. – production, drum programming
John Davis – mastering engineer
Samuel Egglenton – engineering assistant
Stephen Sedgwick – mixing engineer, recording engineer, engineering

CREDITS:

Director: Jamie Hewlett
Co-director: Nicos Livesey
Executive Producer: Bart Yates
Producer: Georgina Fillmore
Gorillaz are managed by Eleven Management.

Production Company: Blinkink
Production Company: Eddy
Executive Producers Eddy: Emilie Walmsley, Lars Wagner
Production Coordinator: Maria Kolandawel
Production Manager Eddy: Stella Ramsden
Line Producer: Fabien Cellier
Production Assistants: Lina Houari, Agathe Derosier

Director of Photography: Max Halstead
1st Camera Assistant: Toby Goodyear
Editor: Paul Moth

Animation by: Brunch
Lead Animator: Romain Barriaux
Storyboard and Layout: Julien Perron
Animation: Romain Barriaux, Julien Perron, Leo Schweitzer, Martin Richard, Paul Nivet, Magali Garnier, Léonard Bismuth, Simon Duong van Huyen, Mathilde Loubes, Victor Chagniot (work experience)
Animation Clean-up: Mathilde Loubes, Antoine Carré
Colour and Shadow animation: Meton Joffily d'Alençar, Rohit Kelkar, Antoine Carré, Constance Bertoux
Compositing: Vincent Ewald
Compositing assistant: Ekin Koca
3D Animators: Erik Ferguson, Oliver Latta, Marco Mori
Analog Synth: Michael Knight
Animation Clips: Lee Hardcastle, Macomoroni, Extraweg, Fergemanden
Animatic: Simone Ghilardotti
Sound FX: Offset Audio

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