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How to use an old dot matrix printer to make a frenetic animated video

Young Rival bassist and music video conceptual mind John Smith is taking you through the (many) steps of turning dot matrix printing into astounding animations.

Young Rival's new video took two years, four dot matrix printers and 1,200 pieces of paper

Lise Hosein · CBC Arts ·

How To: turn a dot matrix printer and 1,200 printouts into a frenetic animated music video

8 years ago
Duration 1:32
Band Young Rival and their bassist/creative brain John Smith have created a new video for their song "Elevator," and John's telling you how they did it.

Last week we brought you the story of Young Rival's John Smith, not only the bassist of the band but the central creative force behind the band's inventive music videos.

Today, with the release of their new video for the song "Elevator" — a labour of love that took two years, four dot matrix printers and 1,200 individual pieces of paper (and that's only a few of the needed ingredients) — we're offering you a how-to. You know, just in case you have some time to kill and feel like making one of these yourself. Smith is taking you through the entire process, though we have a feeling it was a little less easy than he makes it sound.

Watch the new video for "Elevator" below and find out more about Young Rival here.


 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lise Hosein

Lise Hosein is a producer at CBC Arts. Before that, she was an arts reporter at JazzFM 91, an interview producer at George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. When she's not at her CBC Arts desk she's sometimes an art history instructor and is always quite terrified of bees.

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