… making the “Brain Games” music video …

I started doodling on my Nintendo DSi while on a flight to Barcelona last summer. I knew that I wanted to make animated music video using the simple and very fast Flipnote Studio … but I had no idea how it would come together.

I was primarily inspired by two of my favorite short animated films:

Here are are the quick test animations I did while on the flight (animated gifs exported directly from Flipnote Studio):

test 1

test 2

test 3