History Main / AnimatedMusicVideo

* Music/PorterRobinson and Music/{{Madeon}} commissioned Creator/A1Pictures to do a music video for their collaboration, "Anime/{{Shelter}}".

* Music/{{Soundgarden}}'s video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K913KVe3kH8 Black Rain]]" was done by Titmouse Inc. and features a [[TheCameo cameo appearance by]] [[{{WesternAnimation/Metalocalypse}} Dethklok]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAvEiLpboqk "The Big Money"]] by Music/{{Rush}} takes place on a giant, computer-generated [[BlandNameProduct Monopoly-esque]] board.

* Music/YellowMagicOrchestra's [[Music/YellowMagicOrchestraAlbum "Computer Game"/"Firecracker"]]: the first section features animated recreations of footage from the parodied arcade games, while the latter features abstract Orientalist animations that play into the satirical nature of the band's rendition of the Martin Denny song.

** Music/DireStraits also had several animated scenes in the "Brothers In Arms" video mixed with black & white footage of the band, while "Calling Elvis" was done in Super-Marionation.

* Music/TupperWareRemixParty's video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Q3i5w6-Ug Starlight Brigade]] is ''mind-blowing.'' So much so that many people in the comment section were either furious or disappointed that it ''wasn't a series.''

* The video for [[Music/DirtyWork "Harlem Shuffle"]] by Music/TheRollingStones has animated sections, created by Creator/RalphBakshi and Creator/JohnKricfalusi.

* Music/TomJones' "Give A Little Love" video, like Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Ghost of Stephen Foster"(see below), pays homage to Creator/FleischerStudios cartoons, with Tom dancing with an {{Expy}} of WesternAnimation/BettyBoop.

* Music/{{Genesis}}'s "Music/LandOfConfusion" used freaky puppets from the British TV show ''Series/SpittingImage'', including some eerily-accurate comic caricatures of the band.

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* Music/TalkingHeads' [[Music/LittleCreatures "And She Was"]] uses cut-out animation to create a trippy, pseudo-photorealistic look. "Road To Nowhere" utilises stop-motion animation for a number of bizarre sequences, with one particularly elaborate shot directly inspiring Music/PeterGabriel's pixellation-heavy animated video for "Music/{{Sledgehammer|1986}}".

* [[Music/SonnyBono Sonny]] and Music/{{Cher}} had several cartoon segments based on their recordings on their VarietyShow, including one for "Dark Lady" and another for their cover of Music/JimCroce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"

* Music/TupperWareRemixParty has two animated music videos: one for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOWWaRbZucE The Hit]]", done in 80's-style pixel animation; and an {{Animesque}} video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Q3i5w6-Ug Starlight Brigade]]".

* Music/KoRn's "Freak on a Leash" opened and ended with animation directed by Todd [=McFarlane=] (who also did "Do the Evolution").

* The video for Music/DireStraits' "Money For Nothing" from ''Music/BrothersInArms'' famously made use of CGI animation, being the TropeMaker for CGI music videos way back in 1985. It was made by the founders of Creator/MainframeEntertainment.

** When it comes to solo albums, David Gilmour's video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1v7hXEQhsQ Rattle That Lock]]" depicts an animated video inspired by the "Paradise Lost" poem about Lucifer's fall from the Kingdom of Heaven.

* {{Music/Radiohead}} has the videos for "Paranoid Android," "Pyramid Song," "Go to Sleep," "There There" ([[RogerRabbitEffect partially]]), "Burn the Witch" (claymation), and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iNjNr2HKSA a lot of ''Kid A'''s "blips."]]

** "Love Rollercoaster" mixes this with VideoFullOfFilmClips - it alternates between clips of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead Do America'', the film it was recorded for, and "performance footage" that's also animated.

* Music/ThePolice's video for the 1986 version of "Don't Stand So Close To Me", as by that point the band members were constantly fighting.

* Tom Tom Club's video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCWCF19nUhA "Genius of Love"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUys65clN8 "Pleasure Of Love"]].

* "Music/{{Sledgehammer|1986}}" and "Big Time" by Music/PeterGabriel used {{Claymation}}; his later "Steam" used CGI
** "Sledgehammer" mainly used pixellation (human puppetry), as did Music/TalkingHeads' ''Road to Nowhere'' video.

** "Mosh", which is entirely flash animated.

* The video for Music/DireStraits' "Money For Nothing" from ''Music/BrothersInArms'' famously made use of CGI animation, being the TropeMaker for CGI music videos way back in 1984. It was made by the founders of Creator/MainframeEntertainment.

* Music/LinkinPark had one music video for a "Points of Authority" remix done in CGI and was animated by the same company that did ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' and "The Final Flight of Osiris" ''[[Film/TheMatrix Animatrix]]'' short. They also had a genuine anime music video for "Breaking The Habit", animated by the same company that did the anime segment from ''Film/KillBill'' and "Kid's Story" from the Animatrix.

* {{Music/Queen}}'s "Innuendo" uses sketch art and stop-motion animation.
** Sections of "A Kind Of Magic" and "Save Me" are also animated.

* Music/TalkingHeads' "And She Was" uses cut-out animation to create a trippy, pseudo-photorealistic look. "Road To Nowhere" utilises stop-motion animation for a number of bizarre sequences.