Music Video - Animation?

Psychedelic artists such as Ty Segall, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and Tame Impala have included some animation within their music videos. While animation can be a cheap means of adhering to psychedelic convention, I don't believe I have the time to dedicate enough focus on the animation through only hand-drawn means - even if the work is produced digitally in Flash.
With this in mind, it is important to understand why my animations would have to be digitally produced, there are limitations to using real paint or paper and other supplies: Tame Impala for example produced a music video for Feels Like We Only Go Backwards, centered around using paint and perhaps Plasticine to achieve a complex psychedelic stop motion piece. This way of animating practically might cost more both monetarily and in terms of time, therefore making Flash animation more viable; this is especially the case given how I have tried in the past to use paint within my project, such as last year with the title credits, the paint of which proved ineffective and difficult to manipulate. I've previously tested how I might go about introducing this idea into my video and believe I can draw inspiration from my experimental video on the animated head.

Lastly, I would like to assert the idea that animations tend to work rather well within the psychedelic genre as it enables the creator to express vibrant or complexly drawn ideas without practical means; many bands have included animation, such as Pink Floyd with their work on the Wall - hiring Gerald Scarfe, the artist. In fact, many album covers even include illustrations, linking back to animations within themselves but this is a topic I will look into more with the digipaks.


   

As to achieve the abstract and rather Dada style of The Wall and Eleanor Rigby, I believe the use of Photoshop will be the most effective means of creating such imagery. I can simply use pictures of Jack and perhaps other images, cut them out as isolated assets within Photoshop and export them as pdf images with transparent backgrounds - in order to overlay them within my video. Additionally, within this overlay, the images could perhaps be animated in a very stop-motion-esque way (much like the psychedelic head clip I animated earlier in the project). I have a decent amount of knowledge of Photoshop however it appears I will certainly be using it more than during my AS project.