Fantoons Drops Animated Music Video for Brenda Lee’s ‘Noche Buena y Navidad’

Fantoons Animation Studios has created an animated music video for Brenda Lee’s “Noche Buena y Navidad,” the Spanish language adaptation of her iconic vacation hit, “Rockin’ Across the Christmas Tree.” The studio is co-founded by Venezuelan-born, U.S.-based author and director David Calcano and producer Linda Otero.

Within the video, viewers are taken on a Christmas Eve bike trip that begins beneath the equator, touring by means of Latin American cities in Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala and El Salvador, earlier than heading Mexico and Miami in america. Lots of the Christmas Eve meals and specialties from numerous areas are highlighted, together with handmade tamales, pan de jamón, asado and Ponche Navideño. Brenda Lee ends the scene by performing “Noche Buena y Navidad” on stage in Los Angeles.

“Noche Buena y Navidad” was refreshed underneath the manufacturing of Auero Baqueiro. The music retains the unique music and background vocals whereas changing Lee’s unique lead vocals with translated Spanish vocals created utilizing an AI vocal mannequin derived from Lee’s voice.

The monitor’s new vocal was created with SoundLabs AI’s MicDrop, an AI audio plug-in which transforms vocals into one other voice or instrument. In partnership with UMG, SoundLabs is creating official ultra-high constancy vocal fashions for artists, utilizing their very own voice information for coaching whereas giving them full inventive approval and management of the output.

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“Noche Buena y Navidad” is the primary launched collaboration with a UMG artist and marks the primary time {that a} music firm has used ethically educated AI to launch a brand new language model of a traditional music.

“I’m so blown away by this new Spanish model of ‘Rockin’ Round The Christmas Tree,’ which was created with the assistance of AI,” mentioned Lee. “All through my profession, I carried out and recorded many songs in numerous languages, however I by no means recorded ‘Rockin’’ in Spanish, which I might have cherished to do. To have this out now’s fairly unimaginable and I’m completely satisfied to introduce the music to followers in a brand new approach.”

Calcano shared with AWN, “It’s all the time a tremendous day once we get the chance to pitch concepts for a Christmas music we love. There’s a deep and unimaginable connection to the vacations for all of us. However let’s be trustworthy—pleasure doesn’t come with out its challenges, proper? We had simply 4 weeks to place all the pieces collectively, from idea to the ultimate music video! Anybody within the animation world is aware of what a whirlwind that entails. We would have liked one thing really lovely to match this traditional music. I received’t lie—it was daunting. However we pulled it off collectively… as a result of in terms of animation, togetherness is the one option to go. I’m so fortunate to have the unimaginable assist of the gifted workforce at Fantoons Animation Studios! Key hand-drawn scenes had been dropped at life by Finn Nowikow and Juan ‘Maracucho’ Riera, who helmed character animation. Reinaldo Mendoza blessed us together with his compositing experience and extra After Results animation, with invaluable help from our ‘Mendocino’ Jorge Mattus.”

“On the artwork path aspect, we aimed for one thing that felt authentically Latinx. Larissa Rivero, Alberto Belandria and Jorge Mansilla labored on backgrounds and prop design, whereas the extremely gifted Lindsay Lee supplied colours and extra backgrounds,” he added. “Lindsay’s background work on the sax solo part—an homage to Fifties and Sixties animation montages—was merely breathtaking. A particular shoutout to Marielina Obando, who did a tremendous job helping me with artwork path and dealing with the manufacturing duties, alongside Linda Otero. Their contributions had been important to bringing this imaginative and prescient to life.”

Supply: Fantoons Animation Studios

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