As we were producing a series of animated music videos for Katy Perry's newest album dropping in 2020, one of the most ambitious and exciting of them was "Harleys In Hawaii", directed by Hoku & Adam at Partizan. It was of paramount importance to the directing duo that the video retained the authentic style of 1930's rubber-hose cartoons. To complete the project with the budget and time available to us, we setup for success by teaming up with animation studio Vascolo, based in Buenos Aires. The creative team there knew the challenge we had ahead of us and met it with confidence and dedication. This was a truly collaborative effort, doing everything we could to bridge our geological distance by recording video critiques for the team to review and updating the design "bible" regularly so that the animation team always had all the information needed to move forward in line with the directors vision. The end result is a 3-minute traditionally animated music video that we're all quite proud of.
Client: Universal Music Group / Katy Perry
Partnered with: Partizan Entertainment & Vascolo
Executive Producer: Sara Nix
Director: Hoku Uchiyama & Adam Bolt
Producer: Brian Covalt
Editor: Hoku Uchiyama
Choreography and Chanting: Patrick Makuakāne
Dancer: Kaila DeFries
Special Thanks to: Māhealani Uchiyama and Keone Nunes
Animation Supervisor: Brian Covalt
Design: Ryan Whiteley
Storyboards: Hoku Uchiyama
Animation: Brian Covalt
Vascolo Animation Production
Executive Creative Director: Martin Schurmann
Creative Director: Claus Cibils
Animation Director: Ernesto Reyna
Art Direction: Paula Vidal
Character & Layout Design: Leila Rosano, Ailen Sbrizza, Ivan Olszevicki, Malena Zevallos, Samuel Dávila
Producer: Sofía Teodoro
Coordinator: Florencia Cruz
Animation: Agostina Salvemini, Axel Oil, Carolina Borovich, Cynthia Perez Daubert, Facundo Garcia, Gaby Bosco, Ivan Greco, Ivan Olszevicki, Julian Lassa, Julio Mayoral, Leila Rosano, Nicolas Quintar, Matias Petroli, Melisa Pighin, Samuel Dávila, Sebastián García
Compositing & VFX: Julián Pérez Altera, Patricio Passarelli
