Brody Dalle's 'Meet the Foetus' music video is a stunning blend of Eastern and Western influences. Aesthetically the video strides the line between a manga-esque aesthetic and more western methods of contemporary illustration. Like much Japanese anime, movements are animated on what appear to be threes or fours, resulting in a lower frame-rate for character motions. This does however allow for the animators to create more detailed character designs with detailed shadowing and cell shading as well as linework. This may also have been a way for the animators to pay homage to their more Eastern influences, as much Japanese animators, due to budget and time constraints will work on threes and fours, resulting in a lower frame rate.
Viewing the video I also appreciated the way in which certain actions correlated with music cues and the rhythm of the song. For example, at the beginning when Brody Dalle's character is walking, her feet step to the beat of the drums, something that the animators would have had to have exhaustively planned ahead of time. Another example of this would be the baby banging on the walls of the uterus to the drum beat.
While I do like the animation overall, particularly the stylistic choices and overall aesthetic, from an animation perspective I noticed a few things which could have been executed a little better. Some of the movements seem jerkier than others due to the inconsistent frame rate as a result of animating on twos, meaning some scenes, particularly frame-my-frame camera movements seem more like animatics than the finished product.
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