Bill Carter - "Anything Made of Paper" Official Music Video
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- "Anything Made of Paper" by Bill Carter
Off the album "Unknown"
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Part of the 2014 Texas Filmmaker's Showcase: www.houstonfilm...
Best Music Video - Irvine International Film Festival 2014
Best Music Video - Rincon International Film Festival 2014
First Place, Animated Film - LA New Wave Film Festival 2014
Best Directing, Animated Film - LA New Wave Film Festival 2014
Best Editing, Animated Film - LA New Wave Film Festival 2014
Official Selection- Los Angeles Film Festival 2014
Official Selection- Knoxville Film Festival 2014
Official Selection- Palm Beach International Film Festival 2014
Official Selection- Bare Bones Film Festival 2014
Bill Carter's "Anything Made of Paper" was written as a present for Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three when he was on death row. Bill and his wife Ruth set out to write a song about love and tragedy. Johnny Depp plays slide guitar on the track, and has played it live alongside Bill on several occasions, including the Voices for Justice Concert and Rally in Little Rock, AR and on The Late Show with David Letterman earlier this year.
The animated music video is a fictional re-telling of the story that inspired Bill to write the song in the first place, and echoes the hope we all must cling to in the face of injustice.
The song was also featured in Peter Jackson's documentary West of Memphis.
Directed by Brandon Ray & Pat Kondelis. Animated by Brandon Ray.
Copyright 2013, Bill Carter, Paper Brain Productions, and Round Mountain Productions
www.paperbrain.net
Thanx Bill!
Great Song !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is really beautiful..
Awesome buddy👌❤
Awesome! I'll be using this as source material for my first paper animation! Also, saving the song as well because its awesome.
This is AWESOME!
Nice!
Beautiful and clever…
This is so incredibly beautiful.
Absolute, true art in every sense of the word. This should have millions of views.
Very cool!
This song truly speaks to my heart. The art in the video is beautiful....
Maravilloso!! Love it, really love it, thank you very much
Simply beautiful.
Oh, what a beautiful video in every way! Preparing to do animation for my own channel, and was looking around for inspiration, so had watched a video featuring your splendid, passionately created work...and now I'm "beyond words" delighted that I got to find this video that features your work so perfectly embracing this equally-engaging music! So glad I found you even if I'm way-late to discover this (since the comments are from 8 years ago) as I prepare to finally launch my own art and music videos on my own language-learning channel (Starting with English as a Second Language, but also Japanese and beyond) in a hopefully fun and engaging way. Thank you so much for all you do to follow your heart and playful spirit to amazing vistas of creativity that overflow inspiration for so many of us! Gladly subscribed!
Wow, thanks for the very kind words- I wish you all the best on your animation and channel!
@@PaperBrain Thanks so much for your thoughtful, meaningful, and heartfelt reply with best-wishes! Means a lot!
Stunning that this song has had only 7,915 views. This is such an awesome story being told in this beautiful melody. The injustice of the justice system leaves one breathless and shocked. I am so inspired by these thoughts. . . and happy to see that justice did prevail. Although, it should never have happened! Regrettably it keeps happening.
Thanks for your comment, Kathryn. Bill Carter is an incredibly talented songwriter and it still amazes me his music doesn't get millions of hits. If people only knew what they were missing....
I don't know what I would say right now I think I will scream in a pillow by the way I do that a lot!!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍
Such a happy ending to such an injustice!Sometimes its hard to believe that could happen in our country.Johnny Depp,Bill Carter and all of the team who believed in the truth are Angels here on Earth.God Bless
Thanks Lynn, I'm looking forward to it! Bill Carter and his wife Ruth made such a beautiful song here, I'm just grateful my co-director Pat and myself could be a part of it.
While re-watching "West of Memphis" last night, I was struck by how Dylanesque this song is, both vocally and lyrically. (The latter being the highest of compliment possible)
Great stuff !
Thanks to Bill Carter for letting my co-director Pat Kondelis and myself make this beautiful song into his newest music video. I was animating for months, but we're all pleased with the results!
Johnny Depp e Bill Carter al David Letterman Show 21 02 2013 sub ita)
I found this great interview of Bill Carter.
I saw your tweets and FB post, christopher wright. Thanks for all the sharing, bro-mo-sapien!
superb work ....love it ...please give us a hint of the software that you use ...
Terrific animation. I enjoyed it very much.
Brandon Ray the video goes so well with the song which is so moving and both highlight in a beautiful way something that was so ugly and horribly unjust. You are amazing artists achieving something so beautiful and moving.
absolutely stunning
Always! Thanks!
Bill Carter has achieved the most precious feeling of the music, others call it perfection, he could make you hear and feel touched ,well he did it !! congrats Bill for this masterpiece !!
still listen to this from time to time, was very very well made.
Don't think I've ever seen a more beautiful interpretation of a song. It's perfect, conveys the depth of the song and it's meaning. Incredibly well done!!!
Thank you so much for the kind words, Beth.
Brandon, I loved the video!! You are so talented and awesome!!! I am very proud of you and of course of my son, Pat!!
I hope you get the Recognition you deserve.
#friendSHIP 🎉 ⚓!
It's a beautiful song with a lot of history. Glad you enjoyed it.
I always come back to this song every so often to listen to it when I'm feeling down, cheers me right up.
Beautiful and brilliant in every way! The animation compliments an awesome song.
beautiful song
I'm a fan of Johnny Depp and Bill Carter
My dream is to get to know them
great video, great song,
congratulations!!!!
This is excellent. Be very proud of this one!
I love this song and the amazing video. I can relate to being behind bars unjustly.
This is perfection the best I have seen in many years. There are so many components all wrapped into a perfect music video Well done to all and to you my friend "Bill Carter"
This is gorgeous, inspiring and moving.....
Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it, Mark.
Absolutely beautiful!! Love it!
Perfection. Beautiful animation, and emotionally powerful!
Such a beautiful song and video.
thanks a ton Brandon Ray and team.
Bill a great video, your talent is amazing
Wow, this is awesome! really love how you push the boundaries of your animations. (y)
keep it up!
This is the best animated inspirational music video I had ever scene!
Thanks, Dhawal Patel!
Thanks to you sir. Anything made of paper - love it.
I love this song. It's very moving. I was a victim of a miscarriage of justice in Western Australia. Thank God it didn't take me nearly as long as the Memphis boys to get myself free and have the charge against me thrown out of court.
mother of god, that is beautiful!
Brandon you are a genius! :-) Looking forward to working with you!
Lindo vídeo! Que trabalho maravilhoso! Só quem sabe da historia de Damien, conhece a beleza da arte de Bill e Ruth, pode fazer um vídeo com tamanha sensibilidade. Emocionante. Parabéns!
Sem falar na guitarra chorosa de Johnny Depp ao fundo. Amei.
Love it! brilliant video as always and the sense of depth in this animation is awesome!
Wow This is way Cool !! Great work my friend ! Liked this a lot .
Wow this is amazing!
WOW! That was truly amazing! Brandon you are an inspiration!
Thanks Nathan, but the real inspiration here is Bill Carter. He and his wife Ruth made a heartfelt song from a beautiful, sincere place.
Beautiful videoclip! :))
Thanks PG, hope all things are well with you. I'll be missing DMO this Halloween....
I appreciate your kind words!
You are amazing! I have to sub.
Hey, great video. Did you made de waves and boat (2:09) animation in After Effects or directly with the stop motion?
Hey Oscar, I made the boat and most of the waves at 2:09 out of paper and animated them via stop-motion. A few of those foreground waves were done in AE.
Hey! I really love this video. I just wanted to know how you achieved the effect of changing the sky from 2:56-2:58.
It would be super cool if you made a tutorial on how you managed to do that.
Thanks
This song reminds me of my time in maximum security prison Casuarina in Western Australia. That was serious hard time. This song reminds me of walking around the exercise quadrangle. There was a couple of basketball courts and tennis courts. The black fellas always had the basketball courts and the tennis courts were always taken over by the meat heads and the rapists. You could get most things for a price. I quickly understood that if you paid for anything like drugs or a hit on someone you could be paying for it for the rest of your sentence or until, you stood up to the stand over men. You don’t implicitly know these things when you’re fresh off the streets with a raging habit and being forced into a nightmare of withdrawal. I was prepared to pay almost anything to find relief and I made the mistake of getting my girlfriend on the outside to pay a guy so I could get some heroin. I was in for stabbing someone in a gang fight and these assholes thought they could continue to extract payment from me for one gram of heroin. I eventually shanked three of them. Word of this got to the unit that was full of seriously bad people. There was a bikie gang that was in there for murdering the chief of police with a car bomb. They had me moved to their unit somehow. I was told when I arrived on that unit that no one would ever fuck with me again and if I needed something I should speak to them. My time got easier after that. But I still knew that I was basically alone in there. Everyone does their time on their own. You can distract yourself with substances or betting or prison politics! But you are ultimately alone. It’s not a place for human beings. My sentence was short enough that I didn’t completely lose my humanity, but I came out with PTSD. When you’ve seen a man have his throat cut and his tongue ripped out and left hanging out of his throat it fucks you up a bit. Years of never feeling really safe takes its toll on you. Stabbing three guys with a broken broom handle is hard to deal with too. I had to do it though, I wouldn’t have survived inside if I hadn’t.
this was great! :) do you do other animations besides with paper? i've done it with cars, lol.
Thanks! My son loves cars, I should show him your animation :)
*****
oh did you see my silly drunk superman joke i sent you?
1 dislke=must be the D.A.who was in charge of the WM3 case.
Tutorial on how to use abobe flash for making paper craft last one didn't show anything,???
How do u do make them talk
Lip sync. Mouth shapes with corresponding syllables, frame by frame.
Cud u post a video of how to talk
Walking the Cow would be my choice ;)
Sounds Bob Dylan-esque but Bill’s a much better singer.
Sounds like a Rodney Crowell number.
Like stepping outside after a cold dark winter for a breathe of fresh air. Brilliant song, brilliant video. Thank you!