Talk about flashbacks...I possibly saw that vid probably the first time it aired after 11pm. We were already rocking Amigas with that quality of animation, but just for openings and closings of vids. That's the first music vid I saw that used it as the medium itself.
I would say that it started the accepting for people of computers to tell music stories as well. The whole music vid thing is a phenomenon.
The only down side is by the music exec's themselves who only viewed it as advertising and who collectively never have had creative interests in the products themselves.
First hand knowledge of my contention is when decades ago I was in a production company and worked a few national videos as camera etc, and I still remember a producer friend complaining that top execs holding the money were making decisions based on funds and not the production and was pissed that they told him they don't really care about the vid, just get it done on time in budget and some other people will come down when it's almost finished and talk to you. Creatively that pissed me off too.
I think everyone there took pride in their work and resented the detached slave environment. Pride is a two edged sword, but I think it's good to be proud of your work itself. It's part of your self respect and awareness of your self worth.
Too many pencil necks not in touch with reality on the ground.
And here is a free computer program you can use on two year old computers and look like disney. Whereas a cgi program 15 years ago would cost you thousands and thousands more for a special computer system. Animation and image manipulation is a true trickle down miracle for the average person.
20 years ago, it cost my department 140 thousand just for the broadcast quality editing suite and it's three big boxes. Not counting the cost of 3/4 video tape decks. Probably cost them a total of 3 grand to make everything, markup to a city budget is the king.
The original 1984 version "Take On Me" failed to chart in the United Kingdom, as did the second version in the first of its two 1985 releases. The second of those 1985 releases charted in September 1985, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart in October.
In the United States in October 1985 the single topped Billboard's Hot 100, no doubt bolstered by the wide exposure on MTV of director Steve Barron's innovative music video featuring the band in a live-action pencil-sketch animation sequence. The video won six awards and was nominated for two others at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards.
The music video was remastered to 2160p (4K) in 2019 from the original 35mm film and released on YouTube, while retaining its original URL and upload date of January 6, 2010.[27] On 17 February 2020, the music video reached one billion views on YouTube. Prior to that date, only four songs from the entire 20th century had reached that elusive mark ("November Rain" and "Sweet Child o' Mine" by Guns N' Roses, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana, and "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen) making "Take On Me" the fifth video from that time period ever to do so, and the first Scandinavian act to achieve this.[28][29][30]
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