Music video is one of the best promotional tools for bands or other music projects, because with music videos, the public will be presented various illustrations of a song. Certainly through this music video public not only rely on the sense of hearing as well, but also the sight.

Music videos can even be used as a tool to describe the content of song messages, illustrations of songs into motion pictures. But of course not only that, the music video becomes a new media that can not be separated from the audio to develop copyrighted works.

Many music projects that seem to compete through the uniqueness of music videos, various music videos have been born and recorded in the world music catalog. Starting from the form of live perform, movies to animation.

This time, Gigsplay collects and compiles the 8 best animated music videos. Please check out the videos below.

The Killers - Miss Atomic Bomb

The animated video created by Warren Fu is an animation that presents live action, while also Warren Fu invites the audience to witness a story of love and life. Warren Fu was not just working on the "Miss Atomic Bomb" video for The Killers, but before that he was involved in the music video "Runaways".

Tame Impala - Feel Like We Only Go Backwards

One of the best single Tame Impala is finally made a form of music video, of course in the form of animation. The video more offensive to the realm of video art was created by Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling. Many also mentioned that this animated video is reminiscent of the "Seven Nation Army" of The White Stripes and "Sledgehammer" owned by Peter Gabriel. However, Becky and Joseph perfectly brought the audience into another "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" atmosphere.

Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight

The Smashing Pumpkins video titled Tonight, Tonight animated version was created by married couple Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. This duo partner has proven successful with his music video works for R.E.M even Paula Abdul. Not only that, they've been working on "A Trip to the Moon" and "Little Miss Sunshine". So with their involvement in the song "Tonight, Tonight", it could be Smashing Pumpkins has the best music video of all time.

Gorillaz - El Manana

Bands that have been born and formed in the world of animation has a lot of animation work is very popular. However, the video created by Pete Candeland is able to suck and attract more public attention.

Los Campesinos! - We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives.

This indie-rock music group invites Monkmus, an American animator to work on the music video song "We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives". With the experience of Monkmus in the making of Badly Drawn Boy video, Mogwai to Death Cab for Cutie is lifting Los Campesinos! became one of the bands that had the best animated video.

MGMT - Time To Pretend

Ray Tintori released the animated video "Time To Pretend" in 2008. MGMT has had a high position in the music market ever since, and its lo-fi-related identity is also supported by Ray Tintori in the video. The 'raw' and 'psychedelic' characters that always envelop the MGMT look are further enhanced by this music video.